After three years of experiments and learning spent polishing bold and boundless lineups, 2018 marked the fourth edition of Intonal and with it, further confirmed the Swedish festival as a much needed beacon of light for the Nordic experimental music scene. Inverted Audio editor-in-chief Tom Durston shares his personal experience of his time spent at Intonal.
ArtistAlessandro Cortini
Results4Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician best known for touring and recording with the American band Nine Inch Nails from 2004 to 2008, during the 2013-2014 touring cycle, and is slated for several 2017 live performances. Cortini is also the frontman for the Los Angeles based electronic-alternative band SONOIO.
Sweden’s Intonal Festival turns four with Arpanet, Charlemagne Palestine, Courtesy, Pan Daijing
Held annually in Malmö, Sweden. 2018 marks Intonal’s fourth birthday, and this year they’ve invited another host of boundary-flexing artists, performers and composers to grace stages across the city.
Varg: Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore-Tex City
Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore-Tex City is one of Varg’s most approachable albums to date, yet, it never fails to sound as genuine as you could expect. Given the fact the record is more than seventy minutes long, it is quite an achievement.
Unsound Toronto x Luminato Festival
A wave of furious, dusted-up and dishevelled splendour that came over the Hearn Generating Station in Toronto on the weekend June 10th – as the venerable festival institution Unsound was invited to curate two days worth of programming at a venue that came off as a vast, dystopian wonderland.