- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Lonely Dear
Album: Hall Music
Label: Polyvinyl
Playtime: 34:25 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com
Rip date: 2011-09-28
Street date: 2011-10-04
Size: 61.69 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 236 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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After his last time touring the United States in support of 2009's Dear John,
Emil SvanΣngen returned home to Sweden and began to play shows with chamber
orchestras throughout the country.
To successfully accomplish this feat, he was forced to revisit his earlier
material -- re-writing and re-arranging these older songs for performance on a
grander scale.
This experience had an indelible influence on the writing and recording of the
appropriately titled Hall Music, an expansive record that finds SvanΣngen
closer to creating the type of orchestral music he has always sought to bring
to life on stage (whether he's actually playing with an orchestra or not).
Above all, Hall Music is a study in merging contrasts, an album of impossible
pairings. The pacing is simultaneously fast and slow, with gently weaving
harmonic structures propelled forward by quickly moving notes. The
instrumentation is orchestral and synthesized; organic and invented. A church
bell paired effortlessly with horns and an analog keyboard.
Though at first listen it occupies your ears for just over a half-hour, it is
an all-consuming sonic affair. It is intimate music that effortlessly fills
vast, empty spaces -- in your head, in your room, in your life -- with a grip
so delicate yet unyielding that you can't (and don't want to) escape it.
Drawing from both of the emotional states it joins together -- joy and
darkness,Hall Music creates its own unique expanse -- one you'll surely want
to re-visit again and again.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Name ( 2:25)
02. My Heart ( 3:33)
03. Lonely Blues ( 2:56)
04. Calm Down ( 3:58)
05. Maria, Is That You? ( 2:24)
06. D Major ( 2:53)
07. Largo ( 3:14)
08. Young Hearts ( 3:05)
09. Durmoll ( 2:53)
10. I Dreamed About You ( 3:33)
11. What Have I Become? ( 3:31)
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