{"product_id":"tor-lundvall-beautiful-illusions-clear-blue-vinyl-lp","title":"Tor Lundvall - Beautiful Illusions [Clear Blue Vinyl LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP, Clear Blue Vinyl LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: DAIS190LPC2\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 11586672420\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 14 Jan 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Ambient\/Drone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTRACKLISTING:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSIDE A:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Their Souls\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Forever Rain\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Drowning\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Blessings Counted\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSIDE B:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Love Song\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Four Bluebirds\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Lonely Boy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Two Windows\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York painter and musician Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album, Beautiful Illusions , as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral watching the shifting sunlight through stained glass.” Although he ultimately chose to wreath the majority of the tracks with hushed, poetic vocals, his original muse still resonates. These are certainly songs of shadowplay and vaulted skies, the quiet grandeur of dusk deepening on the horizon. Lundvall characterizes the lyrical subject matter, too, in ways both specific and surreal, exploring “the doubts, the anxieties and even the bleak fantasies the mind spirals into during moments of isolation, separation and distance.” Tricks of the eye, mind, and ear, magnified by silence and the looming long winter.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShivering pulses and muted bass lines tread the twilight while icicle synths and wiry guitar map the melody until the voice enters, narrating oblique moods of essence and absence, tenderness and truth. Glimpses of dark humor flicker in the wordplay but the greater sonic landscape is one of falling leaves and failing light, small gestures rendered as revelation, cloaked in reverb and spatial fog. Lundvall’s mastery of nuance and negative space continues to heighten, whispered brushstrokes of the invisible and the unsaid, what lies beneath and what lies beyond: “Behind the shields and false fronts is usually a sadness. The heartbreaking reflections of what might have been.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dais","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41261867827356,"sku":"DAIS190LPC2","price":21.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_b3d01b5e-f53e-4a36-bd4f-d007a7a80b09.jpg?v=1638202648","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/tor-lundvall-beautiful-illusions-clear-blue-vinyl-lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}