FRIM FALL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

28—29 August 2026

SEK 550 festival pass SEK 450 festival pass (members)

FRIM FALL is back! On August 28–29, we take over Källarbyn in Gamla Stan for two evenings of experimental and improvised music from around the world.

This year's festival presents acts from Belgium, Italy, USA, Germany, UK, Argentina, Lebanon, Australia, and Sweden — featuring groundbreaking free and experimental music. Scroll down for the full program and artist information. See you there!

August 28–29
Doors: 18:30
Festival start: 19:00 both days.

Program

August 28
· Farida Amadou (solo bass)
· She's Analog (Stefano Calderano, guitar, percussion; Luca Sguera, piano, prophet, percussion; Giovanni Iacovella, drums, live electronics)
· Hz Of Gold (Andrea Parkins, electronics, accordion & wurlitzer; Frank Gratkowski, saxophones, flutes & clarinets; Devin Gray - drums & percussion & herz)

August 29
· Musho (Sofia Jernberg, voice; Alexander Hawkins, piano)
· Exhaust (Camila Nebbia, tenor saxophone; Kit Downes, piano; Andrew Lisle, drums)
· Das B (Mazen Kerbaj, trumpet; Magda Mayas, piano; Mike Majkowski, double bass; Tony Buck, drums)

Tickets are now available at Tickster.

Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm & City of Stockholm.

Farida Amadou is a self-taught electric bassist and sound sculptor based in Brussels. Known for her raw, intuitive approach to improvisation, she has become a vital force in experimental music, collaborating with artists such as Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, and Moor Mother.

Blending free jazz, noise, and deep rhythmic structure, Amadou creates immersive soundscapes that balance intensity with clarity. Her solo work, including the acclaimed When It Rains It Pours (2024), showcases her unique ability to shape spontaneous sonic worlds with power, precision, and emotional depth.

https://farida-amadou.bandcamp.com/music

Combining four of the most unique voices from europe's contemporary improvised/experimental music scene, Das B. create abstract narratives via cohesive sound-worlds, drawing from the familiar and the unfamiliar alike. At times in unison, at times in parallel, yet always as a whole.
Das B. is a classic jazz line-up, brought together to play free improv, in a rather textural style.

Das B. is:

Mazen Kerbaj, trumpet
Magda Mayas, piano
Mike Majkowski, double bass
Tony Buck, drums

Hz of Gold delivers an immersive experimental listening experience where electronic processing, extended instrumental techniques, and collective compositional improvisation shape the music’s modern emotional frequencies—appealing especially to fans of avant-garde jazz and electro-acoustic inspired magnetic improvisation.

FRIM FALL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

28—29 August 2026

Källarbyn. Stockholm, SE

SEK 550 festival pass SEK 450 festival pass (members)

FRIM FALL is back! On August 28–29, we take over Källarbyn in Gamla Stan for two evenings of experimental and improvised music from around the world.

August 28–29
Doors: 18:30
Festival start: 19:00 both days.

Program

Tickets are now available at Tickster.

Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm & City of Stockholm.

https://farida-amadou.bandcamp.com/music

Das B. is:

Mazen Kerbaj, trumpet
Magda Mayas, piano
Mike Majkowski, double bass
Tony Buck, drums

Listen for abstract soundscapes and noise-infused textures by way of live sample processing, extended techniques, micro-tonal longitudinal wave bends, subtle compositional leads, and non-idiomatic dynamic improvisations. Their free-flowing rhythmic punctuational exchanges push the music’s frequencies ahead with energy and coloristic effects. This trio is made of 3k Megahertz of Gold.

Devin Gray, Andrea Parkins and Frank Gratkowski first started playing as a unit in the Berlin underground scene. Since 2015 they have continued to hold highly inspired biyearly trio appearances. Their joyful collective experiences as modern global human musicians and artistic experimentalists allows their creativity to flow like currents.

She's Analog

Stefano Calderano (guitar, effects), Luca Sguera (rhodes, prophet) and Giovanni Iacovella (drums, live electronics) aim at rethinking the most traditional kind of small band, the trio, and they do so by subtracting.

«The concept – they explain – is to create music collectively, by starting from a thinner and thinner idea, and to layer it with more and more radical improvisation.»

Formed in 2018, the band toured extensively and put together the repertoire they eventually recorded as their debut What I Bring, What I Leave in Marchisielli studio in Foligno, Italy, in March 2019, with a little magic added by Dan Kinzelman. Their follow up – no longer, not yet – was released in 2025.

https://shesanalog.bandcamp.com

Exhaust

The music of Exhaust unfolds through real-time exploration, where quick reflexes and deep listening shape each performance. Nebbia’s powerful saxophone voice drives the ensemble with intensity, while Downes reveals a side of his playing that leans into raw immediacy and unrestrained expression. Lisle acts as both a catalyst and anchor, crafting fluid rhythmic structures that support and propel the trio’s intricate interplay. Their album moves through a vast spectrum of sound, shifting between melodic counterpoint and richly textured soundscapes, embracing contrast and constant transformation.

Camila Nebbia - Tenor Saxophone Kit Downes - Piano Andrew Lisle - Drums

Musho

Musho moves seamlessly between abstract exploration and the immediacy of song, with the visceral effect of sinking into a tender and powerful embrace.

In this duo, Sofia Jernberg and Alexander Hawkins draw on their shared affinity for the music of Ethiopia, having both honed their languages in the company of musical elder statesmen from that country: Jernberg with Hailu Mergia, and Hawkins with Mulatu Astatke.

Sofia and Alexander first performed together at Amsterdam's Bimhuis in October 2016, under the name Musho - an Amharic word meaning 'Sad Song'. Jernberg's work frequently takes her to the outer edges of vocal technique, including performances in contexts ranging from Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire to Mats Gustafsson's The End. Hawkins has been described as 'unlike anything else in modern creative music', and alongside his profile as a bandleader and composer, is a frequent collaborator in duo with Tomeka Reid, Nicole Mitchell and Angelika Niescier.

Musho released its debut album in April 2024 on Intakt, where they have expanded their traditional song repertoire to include Ethiopian, Armenian, Swedish and English.