Corpo

Jazz · Fasching

Corpo has been playing together since 1992, creating new Scandinavian music with a strong rhythmic vein, evocative melodies, and influences drawn from far beyond the Nordic region. The band is led by soprano saxophonist and composer Mikael Godée, whose melodies have often been compared to Jan Garbarek and the ECM school—though with, as one critic wrote, "a more earthly melancholic expression." In 1999, Corpo embarked on a celebrated tour in South Africa, where Nordic melodies met African…