VARP - Dalhems Kyrka

Cathedral sessions

Lable:
Sonder house
Mastering:
case mastering

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1PmY8kgWZmxjIVZ8A5SVnK?si=u5L3ZCDLSn-VSvpkJOgbRg

Inward

Lable: Sonder house
Mastering: Case mastering

Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/6wxKw9hoFe…NUTRyFzmIvGcpfXg

Photo. Jessica Lindgren Wu

Falling

Lable: Sonder house
Mastering: Case mastering

spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6J7M2LFGNX1DVTwFOslIdm?si=7tutoTNYRxKtu_FnDwMKmA

Photo. Jessica Lindgren Wu

Although

Lable: Sonder house
Mastering: Case mastering

spotify link:
open.spotify.com/track/6J7M2LFGNX…NYRxKtu_FnDwMKmA

Photo. Jessica Lindgren Wu

Ostinato

Threads

Piano and Viola acoustically recorded. Some lovely Labs tape orchestra and  labs textural pads added.

Sylvan

Black waters

Resolve

5. INOM

4. Габа

3. WARE

2. FRID

1. Лда

Surge

Pine

There is a grave chapel in Visby  near to where I live. One day i brought some microphones and improvised some music on viola, violins and a harmonium. The microphones also picked up some traffic in the background.

Östra Gravkapellet

Intermezzo

I was in a misty landscape by a lake. The wind and lake was still. I found stillness. Not without emotion but with a new peace of mind and some sense of dignity in the humanness and vulnerability of being open to sorrow.  And in that way also letting it pass. Some days later this short musical piece came. 

In this recording I have tried something new. In my home i have an old upright piano (from ca 1910). It has moved with me everytime I move and has really become like a ragged old friend. I have earlier been hesitant to record it beacause the sound is a bit rough and you always get unwanted sound of the mechanics in the piano. Recently I´m starting to more see the beauty of imperfection. Perhaps when you can enjoy the singularieties and imperfection of people and things it is also easier to see the beauty in yourself and accept yourself as you are.

Photo: Kitty Terwolbeck

Still

A world in a grain of sand

Nocturne

A piece for grounding, unwinding and coming down to peace, rest and tranquility. Like a music box playing a piece inviting sleepiness. suitable for children also.

In this piece I've made improvisations over a descending scale in the left hand. I think of going down an old spiral staircase. Coming down to ground and peace. Leaving the worries of the day for a good night´s sleep.  Listen preferably on a low volume.

Photo: Benh LIEU SONG

Chaconne for Grounded Sleep

From the EP Ainigma
Released By Sonder House 14 June 2019 
Mastering by Alex Saltz

Ainigma

Rich Ground

From the album Felt transience

Mastering: Alex Saltz
Label: Sonder House

Lingering

From the album Felted transience
mastering  Alex Saltz
Label: Sonder House

Mist

Surfacing

Piece for wind quintet featuring alto flute, cor anglais, bass clarinet, horn and bassoon

violin duet

An arrangement from the recording Ainigma

From a live radio recording featuring violin and bassoon

Frey Franzen - violin

Alice Quayle - Basoon

From a radio recording

Frey Franzen - violin

Alice Quayle - Bassoon

Homeward

Music for String Quintet

1. Air,  fragile as light mist from the sea

2. Moon mirror, an inner mystical dialogue

3. To the sea. The sea as a refuge, the sea as a bearer and the sea as a healer

4. Chi.  like waves interacting. 

Uppsala chamber soloists

Notes from the Sea

Have been playing around a bit with Spitifre audios wonderful free sample libraries Labs. Also some BBC Symphony core and Intimate strings

Waltz For Music Box And Orchestra

Richard Hellgren is a Swedish composer and multi instrumentalist living on an island in the Baltic Sea called Gotland. His pieces are minimalistic, contemplative and poetic in character. Sometimes a bit melancholy. Most of his recordings are made on his old malmsjö upright piano to which he has a very special relation to. Beside his musical career he has also pursued a career as a building architect. To him composing and drawing buildings are related in their creative process. "Architecture is about encompassing space and music is about encompassing silence!" His first EP Ainigma (june 14 2019) was released on the New York label Sonder House. In october 25 he made his second release on the same label with the EP Felt Transience.

Richard Hellgren

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