Koop

Today I've been listening to the Jazz duo from Sweden, Koop. Koop is Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson, with a killer rotation of Vocalists such as Cecilia Stalin, Ane Brun, Yukimi Nagano, my personal favorite, Hilde Louise Asbjornsen, Rob Gallagher and Mikael Sundin.



Being a musician myself I was amazed at how their sound is created. The music is based on samples, essentially thousands of small clips from records puzzled together into new songs, which can be a very time consuming way to make music.

The vocals, musicians playing solos, percussion and bass are the only sounds not being sampled. Koop themselves play piano/accordion and sampler. Koop Island Blues is sung by Ane Brun and is taken from the album "Koop Islands". JF Julian directed the video in Paris. Starring French Actor, Mia Jacob.



This remix, Baby by D'Malicious is taken from the album "Waltz for Koop . Alternative takes" (2003). Vocalist is Cecilia Stalin. Waltz for Koop (2002) sold more than 200,000 records around the globe, followed by world tours and hundreds of remixes. You have most likely heard one of their remixes before without knowing it.

"We create jazz music. It´s as simple as that. We can´t do Pop, Electronica, Techno or whatever because we´re just no good at it. Knowing this and having accepted it we can basically do whatever we want. If we wanna explore and pick up pieces from, say, 1929 – we can."

-Oscar Simonsson of Koop-