“Cinematic” is an adjective we see being applied to more music than ever before, perhaps to the point of overuse. But there simply is no other word that better describes the music of Lights & Motion, the amazing solo project of Christoffer Franzen who is the conceptualizer, composer, musician, and recording engineer behind it’s every sound.…
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Travelogue Week 2014-45
Noteworthy highlights from the past week of music discovery, releases, previews, and other news. Daily updates are available on the Stationary Travels Facebook and Twitter feeds and audio/video links to all tracks featured during the month are available on the November 2014 Songdrop page. Previews of Upcoming Releases Loscil | Sea Island | Kranky (November) The release of Sea Island by Loscil…
Read MoreAlbum Review: ‘Save Your Heart’ by Lights & Motion (Deep Elm)
‘Save Your Heart’, the second full studio album from Lights & Motion, is being launched today by Deep Elm Records. And launch is precisely the metaphor that Christoffer Franzen had in mind while laboring in the studio to create his latest sonic jewel. Franzen says about the album, “On Save Your Heart, I wanted to…
Read MoreAlbum Review: “Dreamer on the Run” by U137 (on Deep Elm)
In the heart of Scandinavia, where sometimes weeks may go by without sunlight, two musicians formed a post rock project and named it after a cold war incident involving a Soviet submarine that ran aground on Sweden’s southern coastline. If I stopped right there and cued up a track from their album, you would probably…
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