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17/09/2025

"...their new duo is a sure-fire candidate for the annual list of the best albums of the past twelve months." 🤩

Andrzej Nowak / Spontaneous Music Tribune writes about Håkon Berre and Martin Küchen's new duo album "På Snurr".

Link to the complete review (in Polish) in comments.

01/09/2025

Review of Håkon Berre & Martin Küchen's duo album "På Snurr" from Jan Granlie / Salt Peanuts:

"..hele vegen er det en intens energi i spillet, enten de beveger seg inn i det heftige, eller tar det helt ned, med mye bruk av pauser i spillet."

"Dette er improvisert musikk som skiller klinten fra hveten."

Read the whole review here (in Norwegian):

https://salt-peanuts.eu/record/martin-kuchen-hakon-berre/

22/08/2025

Review of Martin Küchen/Håkon Berre's duo record "På Snurr" from Tor Hammerø:

https://torhammero.blogg.no/er-tosomhet-bedre.html

07/07/2025

The duo album "På Snurr" by Martin Küchen & Håkon Berre is out today on Barefoot Records! 🥳 🎷🥁
👉 Download the digital album or buy the CD from here:
https://barefootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/p-snurr
The album can also be streamed from all major streaming services - here: https://orcd.co/paasnurr
Big thanks to Ola Rubin for mixing and mastering and to Martin Klapper for outstanding artwork! 🤩
Martin and Håkon are celebrating the release with a concert at Råhuset during Feast For The Ears 2025 / Copenhagen Jazz Festival on Thursday at 22:15!

03/07/2025

During Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2024 the collective made a film in collaboration with Eddie Bolger, who collected documentary footage in and around Copenhagen for 48 hours during the festival. Eddie’s omnivorous camera takes us to the supermarket, on a boat trip, for a run in the park, and accompanies the Barefoot musicians as they set up for a concert series at the cinema stage in Huset KBH. In seeking out new textures and unusual subjects hidden amongst the scenery of everyday life, Eddie prefigures the music of the Barefoot collective – who provide an improvised accompaniment to this unfolding raw film material, poised somewhere between soundscape and soundtrack. This short film is edited down from a full-length concert that took place as part of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival – it’s an experiment in looking with our ears.

Check out the movie here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJlWXjrxXA

18/06/2025

https://jazznyt.blogspot.com/2025/06/den-herboende-norske-trommeslager-og.html

Dansk blog om jazz, med anmeldelser og andet relevant.

10/06/2025

Thanks to Tor Hammerø / TOR DE JAZZ for a nice review of Håkon Berre's new solo album "Mirror Matter":

Den norske perkusjonisten Håkon Berre gjorde danske av seg for rundt 20 år siden. Det har på ingen måte gått ut over kreativiteten. Det har derimot gått ut over vår kjennskap til Berre her hjemme. Odelsgutten fra nordre del av Trøndelag - jeg er ikke sikker på det med odelsgutt forresten, m...

30/05/2025

Excited to announce a new release from Nana Pi/Halym Kim/Jonas Gerigk - “Planting Trees for the Festival” is out today on Barefoot Records!

Check it out on our web shop: https://barefootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/planting-trees-for-the-festival

The album “Planting Trees for the Festival“ was recorded during a residency in October 2023 at the Jazzclub Saxstall in Pohrsdorf. It contains improvised pieces that emerged instantly in several free sessions. Double bass player Jonas Gerigk invited Nana Pi and Halym Kim to work on musical group identity that evolves within one week. Besides enjoying time together with cooking, walking in the forest, having lunch with locals and family from the farmhouse, the very focussed playing and listening sessions became an effective strategy to define the music together. This album became a wonderful souvenir of an inspired and intense week of lived quality time.

Special thanks to: Eckard, Heidrun, Flora Schleiermacher and Sigrid Andreas for their hospitality at the farmhouse.

Also many thanks to Musikfonds e.V. and Koda Kultur for making this project possible.

Line-up and credits:
Nana Pi (DK) - tenor saxophone & objects
Jonas Gerigk (DE) - double bass & objects
Halym Kim (KR/DE) - drums

Recorded by Jonas Gerigk
Mixed & Mastered by Olaf Rupp
Artwork by Jonas Gerigk
Composed by Nana Pi / Halym Kim / Jonas Gerigk
Released with support from Koda Kultur and Musikfonds e.V.






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14/05/2025

Eyal Hareuveni from Salt Peanuts writes about Håkon Berre's "Mirror Matter":

"...structured like an urgent suite, full of inventive and unpredictable ideas and engaging sounds by a gifted and resourceful rhythmic shaman."

Thanks for the praising words! Link to the review is found in the comments.

12/05/2025

Håkon Berre's solo album "Mirror Matter" is out today on CD and digital from Barefoot Records!

👉 Download the digital album or buy the CD from here:
https://barefootrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-matter

The album can be streamed from all major streaming services, BUT we strongly encourage you to support independent artists and small labels rather than Daniel Ek 😈 If you live in Copenhagen, the CD can be delivered freely to your address. Otherwise, you can order it from Bandcamp.

09/05/2025

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