This is Håkan Almkvist collaborating with Lars Björk, both members in Ensemble Nimbus. The music is focused on abstract sounds and sonority. The absence of strong melodic lines and wide harmony structures, makes the music minimalistic and dreamy in character. You can describe it as an audible movie, where the music is crossing the borders between AMBIENT and PROGRESSIVE in style. The tunes are creating imaginary scenes and landscapes, which will follow you into unknown worlds, sometimes very pleasant but at other times more gloomy and maybe even scaring. Real instruments like Lars clarinet and Håkans guitar are used and treated along the way by assorted technical devices, than moulded into new sounds. These and other instruments are combined with prepared tapes and different radio extracts strangulated into the music. Both real and sampled percussion are often made into loops, to make a hypnotic and solid ground for the sonic atmospheres to move around. |
