FRIM FALL is back. August 28–29, we take over Källarbyn in Gamla Stan for two nights of experimental and improvised music from across the globe.
This year's festival brings artists from Belgium, Italy, US, Germany, Great Britain, Argentina, Lebanon, Australia and Sweden — free and experimental music at the cutting edge. Scroll down for the full program and artist info. See you there!
August 28-29
Doors: 18.30
Festival start: 19.00 both days.
Line-up
August 28
. Farida Amadou
. She’s Analog
. Hz Of Gold
August 29
. Musho
. Exhaust
. Das B
Tickets coming soon!
Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Region Stockholm & the 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.
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.
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.
Andrea Parkins: electronics, accordion & wurlitzer
Frank Gratkowski: saxophones, flutes & clarinets
Devin Gray: drums & percussion & herz
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.
