Hästköttskanalen Spacegirls

Hästköttskandalen (HKS) is an audiovisual quartet comprised of Swedish and American composers and musicians Ellen Arkbro, Marta Forsberg, Maria W Horn, Kali Malone, and formerly Elsa Bergman. In February 2015 Fylkingen Records released Hästköttskandalen's debut album Spacegirls, 40 minutes of live-improvised music recorded in the disbanded morgue, Kapellet, in Stockholm. HKS was formed in 2013 and has since been featured by The Swedish Radio, Art's Birthday Party, Norberg Festival, iDEAL Recordings Festival, RANK Turné, Swedish Performing Arts Agency, Fylkingen and EMS Elektronmusikstudion. Their music is an array of art rock, slow wave, and neo- psychedelia. The ensemble utilizes realtime video feedback and analog film manipulation, just intonation, digital synthesis and improvisation. A defining characteristic of Hästköttskandalen's music is the equal union of sound gleaning from acoustic string instruments, electric guitars, and an 8mm projector. The mix produces a vast sound-mass suspended in timeless stasis. Their long musical process reveals layers of harmonics with rotating rhythmical cogs, its colour and iridescence calmly transforming.