Four years ago Christoffer Franzen released his debut album as Lights & Motion. Reanimation was the culmination of many months of long Scandinavian nights spent in the studio composing, performing, and engineering an uplifting and distinctly cinematic style of post rock to the delight of a close-knit group of fans gathered on social media who knew they…
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Lights & Motion – Chronicle [Deep Elm]
“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.…
Read MoreTravelogue 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 Feature: ‘More Film/TV Music’ by Lights & Motion
In January, Lights & Motion (the musical alias of Sweden’s Christoffer Franzen) put out ‘Reanimation’, one of the most exuberant and well received post rock records of the year. And later this month, Deep Elm Records will release the follow up album ‘Save Your Heart’ which is already garnering the same level of excitement and…
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