A Lantern and a Bell Loney Dear

Album info

Album-Release:
2021

HRA-Release:
31.03.2023

Label: Real World Records

Genre: Electronic

Subgenre: Electro-Pop

Artist: Loney Dear

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  • 1 Mute / All things pass 03:29
  • 2 Habibi (A clear black line) 02:26
  • 3 Trifles 03:53
  • 4 Go Easy on Me Now (Sirens + emergencies) 04:33
  • 5 Last night / Centurial Procedures (the 1900s) 01:38
  • 6 Oppenheimer 03:30
  • 7 Darling 01:32
  • 8 Interval / Repeat 03:16
  • 9 A House and a Fire 03:24
  • Total Runtime 27:41

Info for A Lantern and a Bell

Meeresvögel und verzerrte Geräusche, gefolgt von der Zeile "Mighty ships hung over ground"; das sind die ersten Minuten des neuen Album, das auf Peter Gabriels Label Real World Records erscheint.

Wie in seinen bisherigen Werken, ziehen sich Meereselemente durch das gesamte Album hindurch. Die Klanglandschaft mit Emil Svanängens unverkennbarem Falsett ist jedoch bewusst reduziert. Man könnte die Musik als erhabenen, sakralen Minimalismus beschreiben. Genauso ist "A Lantern and a Bell" aber auch die Geschichte über das Vertrauen und die Freundschaft, die sich zwischen Emil und dem Produzenten Emanuel Lundgren in ihrem Studio auf dem westlichen Södermalm in Stockholm entwickelt hat.

Zarte Klaviertasten, dezente Kontrabassnoten, gelegentliche Akkorde sowie diffuse Wassergeräusche begleiten Emils Stimme von einem Lied zum nächsten. Die Kompositionen sind scheinbar einfach, harmonisch und leicht zugänglich. Ihr Gehalt ist umso mehr provokativ und existenziell. Für Fans des Songwriters und Multiinstrumentalisten, sind die Verweise auf das Meer und die Schiffe nichts Neues: "All das ist ein wichtiger Teil meines inneren Lebens, vielleicht ein romantischer Traum von Abenteuer, aber auch eine Phobie, eine Gefahr, die mich unmittelbar anzieht. In der Nähe meines Wohnortes fahren jeden Tag Frachter vorbei. Die Geräusche ihrer Motoren dringen in meinen Kopf und somit auch in meine Musik ein."

"Die schlichte Romantik der Moll-Klavierakkorde von A Lantern And A Bell zeigt Svanangens beneidenswerte melodische Begabung". (UNCUT)

"Einfache Arrangements - nur sein warmes Falsett und Klavier, mit Wassergeräuschen und vorbeiziehenden Seevögeln - fördern eine nachdenkliche Lagerfeuer-am-Strand-Stimmung." (MOJO)

Emil Svanängen
Emanuel Lundgren
Weitere Musiker:
Mattias Ståhl, Marimba, Vibraphon (‘Mute’ and ‘Oppenheimer’)
Konrad Agnas, Perkussion (Oppenheimer’)

Produced by Emanuel Lundgren and Emil Svanängen




Emil Svanängen (aka Loney dear)
Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen makes records and plays shows under the enigmatic name of Loney dear. In the early 2000s, in his Stockholm apartment studio, Svanängen made a name for himself by creating homemade CDrs with a minidisk microphone and a home computer, self-releasing albums which by 2007 had pricked Sub Pop's ears and they released Loney Noir. Two more albums - Dear John and Hall Music - followed, as did glowing reviews in The Guardian, BBC, Drowned in Sound, Pitchfork and earlier this year the Line of Best Fit went as far as calling him a "brilliant genius”.

Loney dear has consistently crafted elegant, deeply stirring music, described by The Quietus as "…the obsessive work of one man, albeit one that can sing with the vulnerable delicacy of an angel and makes bedroom recordings that sound like God's own orchestra”.

Multi-layered with instrumentation and Svanängen's fragile yet irrepressible vocals, Loney dear's songs bloom with a sense of both intimacy and openness, at once uplifting and heartbreaking, tenacious yet tender.

In 2017 Svanängen finds himself at something of a crossroads. His career, in many ways, has been as unique as his music. "I've been taking some strange roads. Basically, I have a really strange career and I have no idea where it's going. Everything is always random because my career is so small and slow. I have had to learn to enjoy all the randomness of what I'm doing.”

After all these years in the music industry, Svanängen has reached a stage in which he is not striving to be loved, to be big, to be recognised or feels that he is deserving of more than he has. Above all, he feels emboldened and powerful simply by the new music he is making, as featured on his latest album. "I'm moving into a more bold state, I'm confident, powerful, I became a singer, I learned my darkness and discovered my magnetism”.

Since his 2017 album, live concerts in unique spaces have become a primary forum for creative exploration, and his next recordings will mirror this. Emil says, “It’s such an interesting evolution... these possibilities for subtracting rather than adding. Intricate music written for just one instrument and a voice is, for me now, a way of merging worlds.”



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