Following the warmly-received Paces (1631 Recordings/Decca Publishing) and the collaborative Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound), Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Lindhagen presents his second solo full-length album Memory Constructions on piano and coffee records.

Recorded together with German brother-duo Sebastian and Daniel Selke (aka CEEYS, whose collaborations also include Ólafur Arnalds and Spitfire) and longtime artistic collaborator Sofia Nystrand (Vargkvint), the album merges elements of neoclassical and ambient music, with a foundation of intimate piano works paired with violoncello and vocal synth, expanded with musical saw, kantele, bowed glockenspiel and sound experiments, recorded to analogue equipment. 

”Memories are an equally complicated as fascinating aspect of the human mind. After realizing a couple of memories from my childhood surroundings simply didn’t add up - the timeline didn’t make sense so I couldn’t have been in that place at that time, or a block of houses not being placed where they actually were - I became slightly obsessed with memory research. Our memories play such a huge part of our identities, yet they are extremely unreliable, change and fade over time, and are easily influenced and manipulated. And yet I couldn’t help myself also finding beauty in the fact that I both completely trust and distrust my own memories, that make up who I am. So digging from these slightly contradicting feelings, and from where my own memories are either constructed, fading, forgotten, rewritten, made up or completely true, this album was concieved.” 

Memory Constructions has been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, and is coming out digitally and on limited edition vinyl on the 23rd of September, featuring artwork by Sofia Nystrand and desing/layout by Celia Bayo.

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To celebrate the one-year anniversary of his warmly-received concept album Memory Constructions, Swedish composer Jakob Lindhagen invites some of his favourite artists in the post-classical/ambient/experimental world – including Tangerine Dream member Hoshiko Yamane and award-winning film composer Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – to reconstruct the album from beginning to end.

“With the theme of the original album being how memories change over time, I find these new interpretations of my tracks as perfect metaphors for what they could change into, or what they could have been instead.”

Memory Constructions, the sophomore solo album by Stockholm-based Jakob Lindhagen, was a musical exploration of the unreliability of memories, described as “incredibly beautiful” by Swedish National Radio. A carefully selected group of artists, admired by and inspiring to the composer, has now re-imagined the album from beginning to end, making it a journey through lush soundscapes, haunting strings, soft beats and more, managing to be both cohesive and sprawling, and both close to and wildly different from the original. The full list of artists contributing to Memory Reconstructions are Hior Chronik, Madeleine Cocolas, Hoshiko Yamane, R Beny, Maxy Dutcher, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Cedric Vermue, Vargkvint and Blair Coron.

Memory Reconstructions releases on the 22nd of September, a year after the mother-album, with artwork by Sofia Nystrand and design by Celia Bayo.

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