Abenteuer in der Nachbarschäft präsentiert: MAG [Göteborg] / plusminty [Köln] im 674FM Konzertraum

MAG

rabbitsyntezis terror noises!

MAG enchants the audience with her distorted punk trombone pop. Her second album En Fis I Rymden was released in december 2023 on the Gothenburg indie label Surplus Recordings.
The album manages to be powerfully personal yet privately political at the same time as we dance our way through the beats with our wagging tails.
MAG is the soloprojekt of Magdalena Ågren and still a well-kept Gothenburg secret, who every now and then leaves the Swedish underworld and pops up at different alternative festivals and venues magnetizing Europe's underground scene.
With her long tentacles forward and backward in time she enters the stage and performs demonically blaring megaphone vocals, seductively trombone melodies, drum machine slams, and rabbitsyntezis terror noises, creating a permissive world to marvel at.
The new album is entirely in Swedish and the title would literally be translated into "a fart in space" which is a Swedish idiom equivalent to "a drop in the ocean".
Magdalena Ågren also currently plays in three other band projects, SORK and Trapped in a Loop and BADA (with Anna Hauswolff).

magagren.com

Live videos:
Bruset festival in Sweden 2022
Norpas festival in Finland 2022
Sajeta festival in Slovenia 2021
Kalabalik festivalen in Sweden 2021
Sonic City Festival, Belgium, curated by Thurston Moore 2017

"one of the best live acts I've ever seen. You could call it cabaret wave. Just one solo performer with a trombone, samplers and a great voice. Think like Dresden Dolls meets Bikini Kill, produced by Thurston Moore.
- Joost Heijthuijsen, Incuabte festival (from her show at AFTR fest in Oslo)

" She opened for us in Malmo and I'm still scraping my jaw from the floor after dragging it all the way back to The Netherlands. Marvelous, hugely inventive.... words aren't enough"
- Edward Ka-Spel, Legendary Pink Dots

"The act who impressed us the most was MAG. Just like Ashley Paul she builds her music from layers. From trombone, with loops and sounds from several units. Songs about anarchist rabbits. Too crazy to imagine and it happened. You felt the music could take a different direction any moment. But the turn always opened a new exciting part of the trip. MAG was not less than THE discovery of Sonic City."
(Review from her show at Sonic City Festival Curated by Thurston Moore)
- Gozo Circus Magazine

plusminty

syntdriven post-no wave-punk!

March 2020, the first lockdown paralyzes the country. Some people get a pet, others get a projector, Selena and Andreas form a band or something like that - "Minty, the Socially Distanced Two-Man Band"! One project, two households, that's it. Rehearsals take place on the sofa, the first songs are created between moody post-punk and moody no wave. Is that homecore? Covid wave? Pandemic pop? No matter, the cage is rattled, something has to come out. Minimalism for lack of opportunities, music as a way out.

In the meantime, the project has evolved into the band +minty (insiders say PLUSminty), a real band - vocals, keyboard, two guitars and drums. As a quintet, +minty has doubled its radius, from psychedelic to bubblegum to hardcore, other influences are now also allowed to play a part, the sound has increased, but the transparency has remained. Imagine if the early Sonic Youth had set a lost Velvet Underground album to music with Beat Happening and the Television Personalities. Sounds thick, but what the hell, +minty don't have to prove anything to anyone ...

https://www.youtube.com/@plusminty5761