FRIDAY 11.09.2026

Yngel and Rasmus Daugbjerg have joined forces and embarked on a cross-disciplinary collaboration. Now they are releasing their first joint album, ‘Ulykkens Mønt’. The collaboration began in 2022, when the guitar duo Yngel and the writer Rasmus Daugbjerg were paired up for the Lyd + Litteratur festival. Emil Palme and Taus Bregnhøj-Olesen from Yngel and Daugbjerg met in a rehearsal room with two guitars and some unfinished lyrics. Through improvisation, a shared sound emerged: Yngel’s organic sounds complemented Daugbjerg’s fairy-tale-like lyrics, and vice versa. A new sound: narrative, sombre and tender. A new way of playing music, a new way of reading aloud and writing.

“Yngel play their guitars with stones,” says Rasmus Daugbjerg. “It’s quite a special sound – as if the stones are alive. Those stones also found their way into the lyrics. The music infected the words.” Ulykkens Mønt is a chest filled with stories, sounds and songs. About trolls, kings, moons and wolves. About care and loathing, loss and friendship. It is a small ecosystem of its own; every track teems with life, singing stones, living water, hopeful people, talking bells.

About the artists:

Rasmus Daugbjerg (b. 1993) is a graduate of the Danish Writers’ School. He has published the novels ‘Rygtet’ (2021) and ‘Trold’ (2022). He has received a number of grants and awards, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year working grant, the Michael Strunge Prize and the Mare Kandre Prize. His books have been translated into several languages.

Yngel moves beyond familiar traditions to places few have been. Longing melodies and extended improvisations form the basis of their expression, with fragile complexity and melancholic resonance. The critically acclaimed duo has released six albums in recent years and toured Scandinavia, South-East Asia and England.