"... Snapshot Duo stretches its aesthetics – and muscles – much more in the 27-minute «The First Stone Tools». This free improvised and free-associative saxes conversation (with Jensen alternating with vocals and electronics) is more urgent and restless, exploring the respective timbres of the alto and tenor saxes with extended breathing techniques, rarely surrendering to familiar conventions or narratives, stressing the rich and imaginative language of these resourceful improvisers, but most of all the risk-taking essence of this extended improvisation. It flows organically and keeps its emphatic spirit... " - Eyal Hareuveni


Snapshot Duo:

Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (DK/US) - saxophone
Simon Spang Hansen (DK) - saxophone

Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen and Simon Spang Hanssen have played together for roughly a decade. Their duo continues to explore the known and unknown realms of saxophones, flutes, and vocals.

Simon Spang-Hanssen is a Danish saxophonist, flutist, and composer with a long and exciting international career. In the 1970's, he worked with John Tchicai & Strange Brothers, New Jungle Orchestra, and led his own quartet, Spacetrain, with Ben Besiakov, Jesper Lundgaard and Alex Riel, as well as winning the Ben Webster Prize in 1978.
From 1985-1998, he lived in Paris, where he worked with many artists, including Orchestra National de Jazz, Nguyen Le, Andy Emler MegaOctet, Richard Bona, and BIlly Hart.
Since returning to Copenhagen in 1998, he has continued to lead his ensembles "Central Earth" Café Central, Middle Earth and Epistrophy Septet and TRIO, as well as work with many other international jazz artists.
As a composer, he has written for Orchestra National de Jazz in France, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, New Music Orchestra, Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and ToneArt Workshop Ensembler.


Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen is a Danish-American saxophonist, vocalist and composer whose anti-authoritarian approach has led to an international career, where she has thrived simultaneously in the dense and claustrophobic environment of New York City and the idyll of the southern Danish countryside.
This duality finds its counterpart in her music: equal parts raw, unrelenting exploration of harsh noise and questing melodic forays. Not prone to sit on the sidelines, she tends to lead or co-lead her own ensembles. She recently formed a hellish saxophone quartet comprised of legendary Japanese noise saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi, tenor saxophonist Matt Nelson (Battle Trance, Premature Burial) and young alto player Chris Pitsiokos (Weasel Walter). She is also the leader of, vocalist and composer for Danish improvised no-wave band Sweet Banditry (featuring Brandon Seabrook & Kevin Shea), the co-leader of eerie post-apocalyptic improv duo The Home of Easy Credit with husband Tom Blancarte, as well as a member of various ad-hoc improvising groups, including the Gauntlet Quartet with Peter Evans, Dan Peck and Tom Blancarte and Tactical Maybe with Nana Pi Aabo-Kim, Halym Kim and Tom Blancarte. Her compositions have been performed by various ensembles, including New York's Wet Ink Ensemble.