S O L I D S F O R V O I C E S ( 2 0 2 5 )
Performed by Valby Vokalgruppe
Anja Jacobsen (voice, keyboard, percussion)
Sonja LaBianca (voice)
Cæcilie Trier (voice)
Lil Lacy (voice)
Anders Lauge Meldgaard - New Ondomo (Dodecahedral)
Mette Hommel - Flute (Prime Solid)
Valby Vokalgruppe returns with SOLIDS FOR VOICES — a new album landing on 7th November 2025 via Hands in the Dark.
Initiated in 2008 by Anja Jacobsen, the Danish collective’s current line-cup is completed by Lil Lacy, Sonja LaBianca, Cæcilie Trier and Laura Marie Madsen. The group has written and performed a large number of cross-aesthetic pieces over the years, including an album Bah New Era released in 2012 on Eget Værelse.
Sharpened to its core, the group dives deep into rhythmical architectures built almost solely from the voice - think Platonic solids reimagined as sound objects. Think trance without electronics. These new compositions are compressed, sparkling forms — vocal geometries that spin, collide, and dissolve through repetition. From inside the circle: radical precision, soft dissonance, and playful intuition guide the way. The group explores the voice not as melody alone, but as material — vibrating, modulating, refracting.
SOLIDS FOR VOICES transcends into deep concentration calling for a clear state of mind, in recognition of an increasingly fragmented and incoherent reality. Valby Vokalgruppe endeavours a total absorption into the voice, the rhythm and the trance.
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19-fold axis, O, M (Spejling) and Degrees of Freedom composed by Valby Vokalgruppe.
Delfisk Hymne composed by Athénaios Athenaíou who inscribed it on a stone in Delphi in 128 BC.
Monastère de Ségriès composed by Zoé Perret, Yann Hunziker, Fanny Perrier Rochas and Anja Jacobsen, created for ‘Symphonie de Ségriès’ 2024, by invitation from Vincent Moon.
Icosahedral, Dodecahedral, Prime Solid, Point of Departure, Lille Kommune Tribute, Twelve Pentagons, Octahedral and Skull Piece composed by Anja Jacobsen.
Arrangements by Valby Vokalgruppe. Recorded at ‘Studiet på Frederiksberg’ by Peter Barnow, mix by Aske Zidore, mastering by Antoine Richard, cut by Anne Taegert (Dubplates & Mastering), photos by Josefine Seifert, artwork by Anja Jacobsen, graphic design by Sara Laub. eget værelse 2025.
With support from MPO & Koda’s Cultural Funds.
Released by Hands In The Dark, November 7, 2025
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