As usual, the Popaganda festival marks the end of the summer festivals with peace and love, a laid-back athmosphere, dancing, swimming and the very best pop music. The line-up is always very up-to-date with the up’n’coming artists as well as some of the biggest Swedish stars, with a few interesting international names thrown in for good measure.

Artists:

Veronica Maggio
First Aid Kit
Franz Ferdinand
METRONOMY
Tove Styrke
Caesars
Little Dragon
Slowdive(band)
Linnea Henriksson
Jens Lekman
Jenny Wilson
Mwuana
Bipolar Sunshine
Sarah Klang
Parcels
PALE WAVES
Hanna Järver
Pale Honey
LOVA

Begin the new academic, work or play year 2018/19 magnificently, with KTH’s traditional fireworks concert on 5 September 2018 at Borggården. Free entrance.

KTH’S first fireworks concert 5th of September 2018 at 19-21
Händel’s Fireworks Music and more performed by 150 musicians and 60 choir singers in the KTH Courtyard.
Conductor: Gunnar Julin
Conference: Cecilia Rydinger Alin
Pyrotechnist: Peter Nordin

A royal music fireworks at a royal courtyard!

One hundred and fifty-fifth blowers and percussionists in a music fireworks with rockets, fountains and Roman lights – what Händel offered his London public in 1749 and Rio’s Olympics in 2016, KTH offers now to Stockholm every year since 2005. The Royal Pyrotechnic College’s courtyard is the given place.

KTH has been on Stockholm’s cultural chart for a long time. For hundreds of years, the college has lived up to its proud motto – Science and Art – and this night Pauliina Sairan’s soprano voice, Josefine Andersson’s mezzorous and Zaza Gagua’s bass voice from Opera School will show how willing science and art are united. This year, Kongl also participates. The technology choir in its own concert department and in G F Händel’s famous Halleluja chaser from Messiah.

Five orchestras will merge into the concert’s spectacular final number. In the Fireworks Orchestra 2018, blowers, percussionists and double bassists participate
• KTH Academic Chapel
• Gustavsberg’s wind band
• Naked Symphonic Band
• Stockholm Music Year Three Crowns
• Upplands-Bro sextet

Gunnar Julin, Music Director
Royal Institute of Technology

Program and Hours:
At 18.30, Upplands-Brosextetten, led by Per-Åke Lilja, welcomes you all at KTH Entré.
At 19.00 Gustavsberg’s wind band, conductor: Per-Olof Ukkonen
At 19.15 Nacka Symphonic Band, conductor: Elisabeth Gustafsson
At 19.30 Stockholm Music Year Three Crowns, conductors Nils-Gunnar Burlin and Hans Nordmark. Song Isa Lybeck Shield.
at 19.45 Kongl. The technology choir, conductor Rikard Lindberg Karlsson

At 20.00 CET PRICE!
At 20.05 The Great Fireworks Orchestra at KTH 2018 is due to be presented
(* Arr Jerker Johansson)
– Svante Pettersson: Gothic summer night *, trumpet soloist Stig Persson
– Johan Julin: Kadettmarsch “Nothern Stars” *, performances
– Evert Taube: Calle Schewens False *
– Johann Strauss: “I’ve left you alone” * Orlowskis aria ur
operetta Läderlappen, soloist Josefine Andersson, mezzosoprano

At 20.20 KTH’s Rector Sigbritt Karlsson
At 20.24 Jerome Core: “Old man river” * from the theater boat, soloist Zaza Gagua, bass
– Emmerich Kálmán: “Heia, heia in den Bergen” * ur operetten Csardasfurstinnan. Soloist Paulina Sairanen, soprano, Kongl. Teknologkören
– Richard Rodgers: “Some Enchanted Evening” from the musical South Pacific. Arr William J Duthoit
– Gustav Peter: Memory of Circus Renz. Arr Peter Fister. Xylophone soloist Seppo Asikainen
– Georg Friedrich Händel: Hallelujakör from the oratorium Messiah
Arr Anders Högstedt. Kongl. Teknologkören.

At 20.45 Georg Friedrich Händel: The Music of a Royal Fireworks *
– Owe Green: By the end of the day. Jägarhorn: Anna Åkesson

6 september Trädgården Live Sessions Season finale:

Legendary Norwegian disco-Jazz-avantegarde label Smalltown Supersound is turning 25 year and they celebrate that with a 2 day minifestival with artists from the label.

2nd night lineup:

NENEH CHERRY
Iconic artist Neneh Cherry have just revealed the video for single Kong produced by Four Tet and Massive Attack’s 3D. Together with this show she is also headlining shows in Paris and London.

Kong is a powerful and vital return to the musical conversation for Cherry. Over a dubbed-out synthesis of the musicals worlds of Four Tet and 3D she fuses the personal and political. She references the history of Colonialism as well as Europe’s on-going refugees crisis in a brave and timely protest song; one that uses empathy and compassion as its disobedient tools. “Every nation seeks it’s / friends in France & Italy / and all across the 7 seas / and goddam guns and guts and bitter love still put a hole in me”. The track meditates on the West exporting armed interventions, inviting the listener to imagine the world of someone willing to take the risk to escape from the ruinous effects of their consequences.

Video director Jenn Nkiru is from Peckham, London and is a fast rising star of the art and film worlds. She was 2nd unit director for Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s internet-breaking APESHIT, following up on her visual work with Kamasi Washington on his latest album Heaven And Earth. An MFA film graduate of Howard University, her first film EN VOGUE shot by Bradford Young & Arthur Jafa screened internationally to critical success.

The single artwork is by Wolfgang Tillmans the first photographer ever to be awarded the Turner Prize. He is one of the most important documentarian of his generation of London and Berlin’s club and gay scenes. His recent musical collaborations include the photo artwork for Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde and the physical magazine that accompanied it Boys Don’t Cry

LINDSTRØM:
Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian oil town Stavanger, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm now lives in Oslo where he is making contemporary disco and running his Feedelity label. Claiming that “Hans-Peter Lindstrom is closing in on Henrik Ibsen and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as being Norway’s poster boy of choice” (quoting an article on Piccadilly Records website) is obviously quite an overstatement, but nonetheless his original approach to dance music is currently causing quite a stir. His first success was the jazzy “Granada”, being championed by the likes of Giles Peterson and François Kevorkian and signed to numerous compilations. Wanting to take charge of his own career, he set up Feedelity Recordings – referring to the contrast between feedback and high fidelity – in 2003, and released “the untitled EP” which at first sold the massive amount of 150 copies. The track being included on the Chicken Lips DJ-Kicks compilation did the job though. Then came “I Feel Space”, the track that put Lindstrom on the map of dance communities all over the world, a 12” single that sold remarkably 17.000 copies! This single was followed by a string of 12”s that in the end was compiled on the critically acclaimed “It’s A Feedelity Affair” album. Following a consistent flow of highly acclaimed EPs, singles and remixes for names like Franz Ferdinand, Killers, Roxy Music, Doves, Bordoms, The Horrors and LCD Soundsystem.

Lindstrøm today enjoys a cult-like status within dance music circles, and although the humble guy himself is happy doing what he loves on an underground scale. He has decided to have control over both his own music and publishing, that is why releases all his music on his own label Feedelity in collaboration with Oslo`s Smalltown Supersound. 2008 saw him debut with his first proper debut album, Where You Go I Go Too, released independently through Feedelity / Smalltown Supersound – to high critical acclaim. And as strange as it may sound, this is actually his debut album as “It`s A Feedelity Affair” was a compilation of his 12” output. Lindstrøm has collaborated closely with a lot of artists, and one of these is Norwegian- Mauritan Christabelle Sandoo. Lindstrøm & Christabelle will release their debut duo album the 18th of Janury 2010 on Feedelity / Smalltown Supersound, named “Real Life Is No Cool”. The album contains 10 pop songs with vocals – electronic music melting together with soul and R’n’B. In early 2012, Lindstrøm released the album “Six Cups of Rebel”, were his own vocals could be heard for the first time. On the 5th of November, 2012, Lindstrøm is once again set to release a studio album. “Smalhans” will be released on Smalltown Supersound and Feedelity. The album contains six songs which are named after traditional Norwegian dishes. “Smalhans” is mixed by fellow producer Todd Terje. For all the expansiveness found in his music, Norwegian disco producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm continues to explore new territory in the studio, finding transfixing new ways to propel listeners through sonic space.

Support: CARMEN VILLAIN
Carmen Villain makes atmospheric music made up of tapestries of vocals, field-recordings, piano, guitars, programmed drums and synths. She creates her own distinctive sound combining elements of ambient, experimental pop, folk and electronics. She’s collaborated with Jenny Hval, Deathprod, Matt Karmil and Prins Thomas amongst others, and was recently remixed by Klara Lewis, Gigi Masin and Biosphere. In 2017 she released an EP followed by an album in September, the critically acclaimed self-produced Infinite Avenue, her second for Smalltown Supersound following her debut Sleeper in 2013.

DJ’s:
YOSHINORI HAYASHI (Japan=
The latest signing on Smalltown Supersound is Yoshinori Hayashi. Before this he has released a number of critically acclaimed 12″ on labels like Going Good, Jinn Records and Moscomans Disco Halal. He has also collaborated alot with DJ Sotofett. During the fall his debut album will be released and a 12″ with remixes of Bjørn Torske and Prins Thomas on Smalltown Supersound. In many ways this is the ultimate artist for Smalltown med his abstract mix of cosmic disco, free-jazz and avantegarde-electronic.

Check out his latest mix on Resident Advisor
https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=630

Joakim Haugland (DJ set)
The founder and the man running Smalltown, Joakim Haugland, will open the night with a rare DJ set.

17-03
21 years – up
Presale: 135 kr + service charge
Entré: 150kr

6 september Trädgården Live Sessions Season finale:

Legendary Norwegian disco-Jazz-avantegarde label Smalltown Supersound is turning 25 year and they celebrate that with a 2 day minifestival with artists from the label.

2nd night lineup:

NENEH CHERRY
Iconic artist Neneh Cherry have just revealed the video for single Kong produced by Four Tet and Massive Attack’s 3D. Together with this show she is also headlining shows in Paris and London.

Kong is a powerful and vital return to the musical conversation for Cherry. Over a dubbed-out synthesis of the musicals worlds of Four Tet and 3D she fuses the personal and political. She references the history of Colonialism as well as Europe’s on-going refugees crisis in a brave and timely protest song; one that uses empathy and compassion as its disobedient tools. “Every nation seeks it’s / friends in France & Italy / and all across the 7 seas / and goddam guns and guts and bitter love still put a hole in me”. The track meditates on the West exporting armed interventions, inviting the listener to imagine the world of someone willing to take the risk to escape from the ruinous effects of their consequences.

Video director Jenn Nkiru is from Peckham, London and is a fast rising star of the art and film worlds. She was 2nd unit director for Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s internet-breaking APESHIT, following up on her visual work with Kamasi Washington on his latest album Heaven And Earth. An MFA film graduate of Howard University, her first film EN VOGUE shot by Bradford Young & Arthur Jafa screened internationally to critical success.

The single artwork is by Wolfgang Tillmans the first photographer ever to be awarded the Turner Prize. He is one of the most important documentarian of his generation of London and Berlin’s club and gay scenes. His recent musical collaborations include the photo artwork for Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde and the physical magazine that accompanied it Boys Don’t Cry

LINDSTRØM:
Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian oil town Stavanger, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm now lives in Oslo where he is making contemporary disco and running his Feedelity label. Claiming that “Hans-Peter Lindstrom is closing in on Henrik Ibsen and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as being Norway’s poster boy of choice” (quoting an article on Piccadilly Records website) is obviously quite an overstatement, but nonetheless his original approach to dance music is currently causing quite a stir. His first success was the jazzy “Granada”, being championed by the likes of Giles Peterson and François Kevorkian and signed to numerous compilations. Wanting to take charge of his own career, he set up Feedelity Recordings – referring to the contrast between feedback and high fidelity – in 2003, and released “the untitled EP” which at first sold the massive amount of 150 copies. The track being included on the Chicken Lips DJ-Kicks compilation did the job though. Then came “I Feel Space”, the track that put Lindstrom on the map of dance communities all over the world, a 12” single that sold remarkably 17.000 copies! This single was followed by a string of 12”s that in the end was compiled on the critically acclaimed “It’s A Feedelity Affair” album. Following a consistent flow of highly acclaimed EPs, singles and remixes for names like Franz Ferdinand, Killers, Roxy Music, Doves, Bordoms, The Horrors and LCD Soundsystem.

Lindstrøm today enjoys a cult-like status within dance music circles, and although the humble guy himself is happy doing what he loves on an underground scale. He has decided to have control over both his own music and publishing, that is why releases all his music on his own label Feedelity in collaboration with Oslo`s Smalltown Supersound. 2008 saw him debut with his first proper debut album, Where You Go I Go Too, released independently through Feedelity / Smalltown Supersound – to high critical acclaim. And as strange as it may sound, this is actually his debut album as “It`s A Feedelity Affair” was a compilation of his 12” output. Lindstrøm has collaborated closely with a lot of artists, and one of these is Norwegian- Mauritan Christabelle Sandoo. Lindstrøm & Christabelle will release their debut duo album the 18th of Janury 2010 on Feedelity / Smalltown Supersound, named “Real Life Is No Cool”. The album contains 10 pop songs with vocals – electronic music melting together with soul and R’n’B. In early 2012, Lindstrøm released the album “Six Cups of Rebel”, were his own vocals could be heard for the first time. On the 5th of November, 2012, Lindstrøm is once again set to release a studio album. “Smalhans” will be released on Smalltown Supersound and Feedelity. The album contains six songs which are named after traditional Norwegian dishes. “Smalhans” is mixed by fellow producer Todd Terje. For all the expansiveness found in his music, Norwegian disco producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm continues to explore new territory in the studio, finding transfixing new ways to propel listeners through sonic space.

Support: CARMEN VILLAIN
Carmen Villain makes atmospheric music made up of tapestries of vocals, field-recordings, piano, guitars, programmed drums and synths. She creates her own distinctive sound combining elements of ambient, experimental pop, folk and electronics. She’s collaborated with Jenny Hval, Deathprod, Matt Karmil and Prins Thomas amongst others, and was recently remixed by Klara Lewis, Gigi Masin and Biosphere. In 2017 she released an EP followed by an album in September, the critically acclaimed self-produced Infinite Avenue, her second for Smalltown Supersound following her debut Sleeper in 2013.

DJ’s:
YOSHINORI HAYASHI (Japan=
The latest signing on Smalltown Supersound is Yoshinori Hayashi. Before this he has released a number of critically acclaimed 12″ on labels like Going Good, Jinn Records and Moscomans Disco Halal. He has also collaborated alot with DJ Sotofett. During the fall his debut album will be released and a 12″ with remixes of Bjørn Torske and Prins Thomas on Smalltown Supersound. In many ways this is the ultimate artist for Smalltown med his abstract mix of cosmic disco, free-jazz and avantegarde-electronic.

Check out his latest mix on Resident Advisor
https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=630

Joakim Haugland (DJ set)
The founder and the man running Smalltown, Joakim Haugland, will open the night with a rare DJ set.

17-03
21 years – up
Presale: 135 kr + service charge
Entré: 150kr

Music Tech Fest is the global, hands-on festival of music ideas, featuring cutting-edge performance, music hacking, innovation labs and industry showcases that connect artists, technologists and business in a vibrant environment. Unique collaborations, new works created on site, premieres of future technology, workshops and activities for children, in-depth personal interviews with innovation thought leaders, and a visionary interdisciplinary community make each event an exciting landmark gathering for the whole family.

Music Tech Fest is a giant interactive laboratory where brilliant minds collaborate to create groundbreaking innovation sparked by music and creativity. After festivals and events in London, Berlin, Paris, Boston, Ljubljana, Wellington, Umeå and more, MTF comes to Stockholm for its first annual event in its new permanent home.

Music Tech Fest is cross-genre, international, enriching, and inclusive. It brings together academia and industry, artists, makers and scientists from around the world to create, celebrate and invent the future of music.

Music Tech Fest
The Festival of Music Ideas
7-9 September 2018
KTH Royal Institute of Technology