Svaneborg Kardyb

**Nikolaj Svaneborg** on piano, Wurlitzer and synthesizer, **Jonas Kardyb** on drums. Their language is made of measured silences, melodies that emerge almost by chance, a Nordic jazz that absorbs Scandinavian folk, ambient and contemporary minimalism.

During the lockdown, while watching a video of Hania Rani on YouTube, they notice the Gondwana Records logo. They start exploring the Manchester label's catalog and write an email to founder Matthew Halsall. The reply ends up in the spam folder. Halsall chases them down on Instagram months later. From that encounter comes the release of *Over Tage* (2022), preceded by a session for NPR's Tiny Desk that brings them to international attention and becomes one of the most shared moments of their career.

**"Their sound floats and shimmers as if it came from somewhere else… there is myth and magic in there"** — Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3

Since then the duo hasn't stopped: tours in Canada, Romania, Prague, the UK — everywhere their instrumental music breaks down all language barriers. Their fourth album *Superkilen* (Gondwana Records, 2024), the most mature and rich of their discography, is named after a multicultural park in Copenhagen: a place made of objects and stories from all over the world held together by the same soil.