We’re happy to announce three Aspen label nights in April at these wonderful venues: Het Bos (Antwerp), Cinéma Nova (Brussels) and De Koer (Ghent).
The evenings feature Oker, presenting their new album Aerial — the Norwegian acoustic experimental quartet bringing together some of the most distinctive young improvisers from the scene — alongside Strands of Lunar Light by Fredrik Rasten & Ruben Machtelinckx: a quiet, otherworldly exploration of spectral microtonality for multiple guitars. The performance is accompanied by a live film projection by Oona Libens, using a self-built three-eyed projector to improvise images with light, depth and focus.
23 April — Het Bos (Antwerp)
24 April — Cinéma Nova (Brussels)
25 April — De Koer (Ghent)
Aspen Edities presents Aerial, the third album by Norwegian experimental quartet Oker. The album consists of two long-form, fully improvised pieces, shaped from the band’s distinctive acoustic sound world developed over a decade of touring. Inspired by meteorological and planetary phenomena, Aerial unfolds as a shifting landscape of light, wind, and tidal motion. Release date: 27 February 2026
Edition: 250 hand-numbered
Personnel
Torstein Lavik Larsen – trumpet, percussion
Adrian Fiskum Myhr – double bass
Fredrik Rasten – 6- & 12-string acoustic guitars
Jan Martin Gismervik – drums, percussion
Artwork: Mareike Yin-Yee Lee
Pre-order available now.
Coming September 12th: the third album by Poor Isa — the banjo-and-woodblock duo of Frederik Leroux and Ruben Machtelinckx — joined by legendary saxophonist Evan Parker and percussionist Ingar Zach.
Pre-orders are now available in our webshop.
In the meantime, enjoy this beautiful video by Oona Libens.
Program:
Frederik Leroux: solo guitar
Poor Isa (Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux)
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Fredrik Rasten: strands of lunar light release concert (with Ruben Machtelinckx)
From the album 'words were coming out our ears' by Graden/Agnas/Landin/Bromander
Johan Graden: piano
Nils Agnas: drums
Pär Ola Landin: bass
Vilhelm Bromander: bass
Artwork and copyright by Liesbeth Van Heuverswijn
I envision this music as emanating from a moon inhabited by otherworldly life forms and ecosystems; these sounds as evoking the moon’s topographies, beings, lunar rivers, and strands of light — as if this moon’s essence were itself sonic, vibrational matter.
Musically and acoustically, strands of lunar light departs from a set of tones corresponding to a confined harmonic series segment of a very low fundamental frequency: 5.15 hertz. Through twelve continuous sections, each employing various methods of activating openly tuned guitar strings, the music is sculpted from the twenty-four pitches corresponding to harmonics 24 through 47 of this fundamental frequency.
At times, the natural second (octave) harmonics of the open strings are activated and introduce a secondary, octave transposed version of the original harmonic...