Tor Lundvall - Last Light - PurpleOriginally released as a hand numbered CD on New Year's Eve of 2004, Last Light captures Tor Lundvall's hushed songcraft at it's most ghostly and grayscale, stripped bare like branches bracing for winter. Initially conceived of as "a piano album with sparse electronics" (with the working title November), Lundvall's palette steadily expanded, incorporating synthesizer, samples, bass, metronomes, and his signature spectral vocals. A journal entry from

full of ironic refractions and caricatures of melodramatic and triumphant music

harpist Praxedis Hug-Rütti and pianist Praxedis Geneviève Hug

This great value 94-track 4-CD collection comprises all the records he made which were commercially released during the period covered by the anthology

P studios (frontman Graham Lambkin's parents' home)

is made up of brass instruments and large classical percussion

and San Quinn

Kris Needs has written extensive liner-notes

pawn shop Les Paul

dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's

One hallmark of the Frescobaldi style is it's restlessness

Ronnie Self

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