All music written and produced by Gunnar Spardel

contact: gunnar.spardel@gmail.com

Gunnar Spardel - Towards Silence

Amanyara (Hindu for beautiful, blissful place) is taken from the 2014 album release "The Tides of Day and Night" of Tigerforest, the electronic / ambient project by German composer / producer Gunnar Spardel. Sit back, relax and unwind!

Tigerforest - Amanyara

Tigerforest - Aqua Marine

Music by Gunnar Spardel
Piano by Doug Hammer
Vocals by Amethyste

taken from the album "The Tides of Day and Night"

Aqua Marine

artist: Tigerforest
vocalist: Shelley Harland

taken from the album "Today and Onward"

Tigerforest - Catching Time (with Shelley Harland)

This is a first prototype version of a new project I am working on under my own name. It is a collection of my soundtrack and classical work in combination with an ambient tuned galaxy Steinway piano. No synthesizers were used or harmed in this production ;)

Watching Stars Collide

Tigerforest - Sunset Destination

Music by Gunnar Spardel
Adlibs by Amethyste

Sunset Destination

Tigerforest - Sunrise over Key West

Music by Gunnar Spardel



Sunrise over Key West

Soberanes Fire

A Day In A Lifetime

Music by Gunnar Spardel & David Helpling
Vocals by Amethyste

Coastal Skyway

Tigerforest plays Winter live at Schallwelle 2020 in Germany!

Tigerforest - Winter - Live

Taken from the album "Discovery"

Music by Gunnar Spardel
Vocals & Lyrics by Roberta Carter Harrison

Tigerforest - Over You (feat. Roberta Carter Harrison)

From electronic space to ambient chamber music, we talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest. His latest album as Tigerforest is Discovery and his latest as Gunnar Spardel is Simplicity in a Complex World, Follow the journey of the German music composer inthe Echoes Podcast. Tigerforest’s 2014 album, The Tides of Day and Night, was an Echoes CD of the Month.

Echoes Podcast

Echoes Interview Podcast Special

Mainly known for his chill out project "Tigerforest", Gunnar Spardel is an award winning electronic and neo-classical composer. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, but now based in New England, USA, Spardel is a creator of dreamy, minimalist soundscapes that elicit comparisions with the likes Nils Frahm, Max Richter and Tangerine Dream.

Introduced to Jazz and Classical Music by his parents at an early age, followed by his own discovery of electronic music as a teenager, Spardel developed a keen sense for music's ability to open the mind and eyes to the world as well as providing a channel for his own emotions.

As a composer Spardel is able to tap into these resources of knowledge and experience while retaining a strong personal vision and aesthetic. From the changing rhythms and chord progressions of Dave Brubecks' melding of classical music and free jazz, to the otherworldly electronic sounds of the Berlin school, he is able to weave a variety of influences through his compositions while continually engaging the listener to be part of his musical universe.
Spardel's most recognized works are the escapist and uplifting sounds of his "Tigerforest" project, for which he won the 2016 Schallwelle Award for Best New Artist (Schallwelle are the German electronic music awards). More recently, however, he has begun to move towards something more explicitly personal and intimate. Stepping somewhat away from synthesized sounds while combining modern composition elements with a melancholic, intricate chamber orchestra and ambient soundscapes, Gunnar Spardel's Simplicity in a Complex World, is his first release under his own name.

Inspired by modern day minimalism and baroque like orchestrations, Simplicity in a Complex World is a meditation on the complexities of the modern way of life. It is, for Spardel, both a reflection and recreation of the inner space we must all find for ourselves in a world that is constantly shifting beneath our feet. Triggered by artists who go against the grain and find new ways to express themselves through sound, the compositions are both Spardel's internal mirror and means of communication.

From the countless teenage hours spent listening to jazz and classical music in his bedroom, or wondering around the harbor of his hometown with electronic music taped from the radio coming through his Walkman, music has become the playground for Spardel's emotions. It is the perfect company and the perfect soundtrack.

Gunnar Spardel

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