12 Points Festival - Fri Sep 27

20:00 Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi (Iceland)

From the northwestern edge of Europe, Iceland’s Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi’s outside-the-box style as a bassist and composer makes her one of the island’s favourites. Her music ranges from groove-laden classic jazz to more minimalist post-rock-inspired sounds. A conversational approach to writing gives space for her quartet to build on her basic structures, emerging in a back-and-forth style, threaded through with ear-catching motifs. Turchi’s second solo album Meliae received an award as the Album of the Year in the Jazz and Blues category at the Icelandic Music Awards of 2021.

21:15 Pawky (Sweden)

Hailing from Malmö, Pawky takes off in the tradition of instrumental acoustic jazz but reaches into darker and more abstract fringes. They mix through-composed passages with completely open, improvisatory space, contrasting more naive, innocent melodic material with harmonic depth, and find the shadows of their sound in their improvisations.

22:30 Selma Savolainen Horror Vacui (Finland)

Vocalist Selma Savolainen’s project Horror Vacui explores the fear of emptiness, renunciation and sudden discoveries. Combining a variety of influences, Savolainen can step effortlessly from old-fashioned jazz singer to grunge and further afield, pulling ghosts from a spare wasteland to create a powerful emotional punch.

23:30 12 Points Late Night Jam

In addition to 12 performances from a broad spectrum of artists, 12 Points hosts an anything goes, freewheelin’ European ‘Jam Session’ after concert performance, which has in the past been the genesis for many fantastic new collaborations, forged spontaneously on the bandstand. There will be a session on Thursday 26th, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th, led by a different local band each night, and featuring artists from across Europe. In previous editions this totally free environment has been the perfect place for the formation of new musical friendships.