band

Girls in Airports

indie-jazz

The Pitch

Girls in Airports are a Copenhagen-based indie jazz band whose sound has been evolving for fifteen years and still has not settled. Vintage keys, saxophone, and global percussions. They play with a collective instrumental voice that moves fluidly between traditions and keeps reaching past them. They've played across Europe on stages like Roskilde Festival. They've collaborated on releases with Teitur, Halvcirkel and Aarhus JazzOrchestra. Their live concerts are immersive, unrepeatable, and built for audiences who come looking for something they have not heard before.

Bio

Girls in Airports is a Copenhagen-based indie jazz band whose sound has been evolving for fifteen years and still has not settled. They started as students who wanted to know what happens when you remove the rules and just follow the music. No fixed genre, no conventional instrumentation, vintage keys, saxophone, and a wide spectrum of global percussion, shaped by a long-term collective curiosity that has taken them across Europe and Asia, from festival stages to intimate rooms where something unexpected always happens. Their music moves fluidly between traditions and keeps reaching past them. Between jazz and ambient, between folk and something with no name yet. It is music built for people who listen closely and want to be taken somewhere they have not been before. Over ten albums and more than a decade of touring, they have collaborated with Teitur, Halvcirkel and Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, played Roskilde Festival, and landed sync placements in films across Europe. Their live concerts are immersive, unrepeatable, and built for audiences who come looking for something they have not heard before.

Press

“The album starts off dreamlike, almost like Sigur Ros, subtle with discrete rhythm and strings that sound completely electronic. You can clearly feel the tensions that tremble throughout the album.”
— Salt Peanuts

“Girls in Airports is undoubtedly one of the most important bands in recent Danish jazz. They have had their own sound and atmosphere right from the start, which has slowly and gradually moved to new places.”
— JazzNyt

“Girls In Airports has for a number of years been one of the most exciting Danish bands at that end of jazz music where you can sometimes wonder if it's even jazz... or something else good.”
— Politiken, Kim Skotte

“It remains entirely unclear how to describe their wonderfully soothing sound. Is it indie pop with jazz elements, ambient music with rock passages, or something else entirely?”
— KulturNews Germany