A collaboration effort between myself and Relax Vibes

Oracle of the Lost Rune Mountains of Makura

Oracle of the Lost Rune Mountains of Makura ft. Relax Vibes

The Songs of Blackberry Springtime

How to Plant Berries: A Book on the Easy Steps of Berry Planting

How to Plant Berries: A Book on the Easy Steps to Berry Planting

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen" (release date: June 17)

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd is a musical collaboration that has been going on since 2019. The first single "Slow-wave Sleep/Dröm i färg" was released in 2020 and now their debut album "A place in the sun" will be released on June 17, 2023. The music moves between post-rock, ambient, kraut and dream pop. It is instrumental music, using vocals without words. With vivid song titles and musical visualization, they take listeners through different imagined scenes. The album is released on streaming services and CD through Stålverk Records.


Alpha Mound

Alpha Mound is Joakim Westlund's solo project. Since his first release in 2012 he has produced many albums and EP:s under this moniker, sometimes through collaborations with other artists. The music is usually ambient with sound design as a central element.


Tidsrymd

Tidsrymd is Johan Ohlsson's project, producing electronic music since 2018. The music moves between kraut, minimalism and ambient. 


Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen"

The album "En plats i solen" was mostly made by the duo in Joakim's studio in Sandviken. Later on guest musicians have been brought in to build the large soundscape that makes up the record. The album features Sofia Costa Nordvall (vocals), Karolina Dahl (vocals), Peter Fredriksson (trombone), Martin Hällgren (drums) and Ida Norrman (vocals).


About some of the tracks:

Godmorgon framtid was the first single from the album, which came with a remix by Slim Vic. It is inspired by an old coffee table book from 1984, with the same name, in which Bengt-Arne Vedin and Bengt Preston painted titillating visions of the future and predicted such things as "electronic express letters" and robotic lawnmowers. It is an energetic, hopeful and uplifting song.

Dagsverk is a work song with a swagger, post rock guitars and humming sing-along chorus, kind of a spiritual for the 2020s. 

Vid tystnadens rand takes us to atmospheric ambient with quietly humming vocals (a bit like Enya). Alpha Mound plays a bowed guitar, which adds a kind of quiet drama to the song.

Östersjön paints a dystopian dark ambience to soft, jazzily stroked drums. We see the song as a bittersweet musical depiction of a rather ruined place, where beauty and tragedy sings side by side.

En plats på solen is a brutal song that contrasts the uplifting title track. But instead of beaches and leisure, we imagine solar storms and extreme heat. The composition is inspired by the title track of the 1984 Dune film and Edvard Grieg's "The Death of Asa" from the Peer Gynt suite, but filtered through the usual punk/indie racket.

01 - En bättre värld

Another melody in appreciation of the natural beauty in and surrounding Springville, AL.

Please listen to my "Sights of Springville" playlist.
https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716/sets/sights-of-springville-1

Canoe Creek

Coffee And Donuts 140 BPM

Coulda been a line on a map...nearly 
invisible - yea
I coulda been that
and I might've been the rod that takes the lick o lightnin
and I might've been caught
cause my grip has been tightening
waitin on the thunder clap
and the wrath of god
O whoa woa
coulda been...coulda been...all of that
but instead I'm the inch worm...inching along
nearly invisible...yea
just inching my way cross this iron horse highway
and it's almost biblical...the proportions
conveyed...cause that horse is a giant
a goliath to my dave
yea
awwww yea
coulda been coulda been all that
O
could've been a line on a map
nearly invisible...yea
I coulda been that

Coulda Been

Instrumental of the beautiful song
 " I Don't Wanna Know"
Mix & production by Leon Pajer

I Don't Wanna Know

JAMES TOO

A call for Glory

Between abandoned lights and words never spoken, the landscape fractures into strange names and distant echoes. The city dissolves into a realm of forgotten architecture, where neon wails fade into rusty prayers. Every step leads deeper into unexplored corridors, and every whispered name feels like the shadow of a place that never truly existed.

Static Hands

Rover

Charmed by nature and heavenly wonders. 

Lo-fi

Oracle of the Lost Rune Mountains of Makura ft. Relax Vibes

Bad Milk Dirty Peaches