BICEP - Takkuuk

While Bicep were carefully doling out the tracks from “CHROMA”, so far the peak of their career, not just for the quality of the songs but even more for the spectacle staged in their live shows, they carved out time to devote themselves to a completely different idea. Already contacted back in 2022 by a charity organisation for a study expedition to Arctic territory, Andy Ferguson (co-owner of the Bicep name, alongside Matthew McBriar) spent two weeks in Greenland, coming into contact with the region's issues (in particular, the mutations caused by melting ice) and attending performances at the Arctic Sounds Festival, where he had the chance to meet numerous musicians from the area. It was in those days that the plan was born to create a shared project, one that would bring together life stories from the Arctic Circle, combining video footage with a soundtrack able to support the music and languages of the territory, also making use of natural sounds recorded live on location.

The final result took shape as an immersive multimedia installation, the work of director Charlie Miller and visual artist Zak Norman. In effect, it's a feature-length film exploring the communities, culture, daily life and challenges faced by indigenous artists and the local population: what it means to live on the front line of the fight against climate change. The music, produced by Bicep in collaboration with seven artists from the region, is the heart of “Takkuuk”, which is gaining wide attention and has even made it onto the pages of major tabloids, such as Britain's The Guardian.

The first showing took place on 2 July 2025 in London, and from there a tour followed that brought the installation to Italy too, in Milan, this past November. Music, climate and identity, tightly bound together, with a focus on one of the most vulnerable places on the planet, a powerful narrative that extends to Sweden, Norway and Canada, weaving together landscapes, traditions and testimonies. The hypnotic, enveloping electronic music of the Northern Irish duo naturally integrates the raw sounds of the territory (wind, ice, traditional Inuit chants), along with the instruments and voices of local musicians.

The figures are alarming: between 2002 and 2021, the Greenland ice sheet lost an average of 280 billion tonnes of ice per year, contributing to the global rise in sea levels. The loss of ice is accelerating, the landscape is being transformed, and new stretches of green are advancing, fuelling warming and releasing greenhouse gases in an increasingly worrying cycle. To keep attention on the issue high, “Takkuuk” makes room for the voices of indigenous peoples, exploring themes such as marginalisation, displacement and the direct impact the climate crisis has on local daily life. Sami singer Katarina Barruk, Greenlandic rapper Tarrak, throat-singing duo Silla, metal band Sound Of The Damned, producers Andachan and Niilas, and indie act Nujia all open up new horizons for Bicep's dance-oriented sound, this time less packed with drops and crescendos, but even more attentive to loading up on evocative, deeply descriptive ambient rarefactions. So that club culture today can become a vehicle for powerful acts of protest.

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18/06/2026