Sometimes, music grows quietly.
Not from deadlines or plans — but from a shared sense that something is waiting to take shape.
Imaginal began like that.
A few sketches, fragments of rhythm and melody, small ideas passed between us — until one day, we realized they had started to breathe.
For a year and a half, we met in our rehearsal room in Vanløse, and sometimes in a small basement in Nørrebro.
We listened, we played, we waited.
We tried things that didn’t work, and then suddenly something would open.
That’s always been the heart of Girls in Airports: the belief that music happens between people.
Not in one person’s idea, but in the space where everyone listens.
Halvcirkel came into that space with the same openness — crossing from the classical world into ours without hesitation.
There was no fixed plan.
We started playing, and slowly the music found its form.
Some of the material came from new compositions by Martin, some from older pieces we reshaped, and one, Nidingen, from Halvcirkel’s own world.
Each piece became part of something shared — a conversation between rhythm and resonance, body and air.
Imaginal is not music that asks to be understood.
It’s music that wants to be experienced — in the same way light filters through water, or time stretches in silence.
The recordings took place in the old Radio House in Copenhagen — a building where decades of sound still hum in the walls.
The space shaped the music as much as we did.
Strings unfolded naturally in the room’s acoustics, while saxophone, percussion, and electronics moved around them like air.
The album cover came from Mathias’ painting — made with layers of color blown across a canvas using compressed air.
When we saw it, we recognized the same feeling as in the music: patience, movement, stillness.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that time is part of the process.
The slow work, the unfinished ideas, the conversations — they all become the music in the end.
Imaginal is that process made audible.
It’s what happens when you let go of control, listen deeply, and trust that something will appear.
Recorded in Radiohuset, Copenhagen.
Mixed by Peter Barnow. Mastered by Kassian Troyer, Dubplates Mastering, Berlin.
Cover art by Mathias Holm Jørgensen.