15 love: the shadow channel is the third album by Spellcaster and the seminal summoning of the spellchestra. Continuing the fragmented narrative laid out on its predecessors Inventory (2019) and memo (2022), the shadow channel concludes a trilogy of releases unfolding the story of our main character anybard, embodied by Danish composer, musician and performer h hartvig nielsen.

the shadow channel is an operatic rite of passage through a stream of undead transmissions. The release moves as a hazy radio montage of feedback clusters, estranged melodies, cut up sonic fabrics and dramatic walkie talkie dialogue, occasionally interrupted by bard-like song structures. A chorus repeats throughout the shadow channel, like an anchor in the otherwise transitory universe of sound, emphasising hartvig's highly refined melodic and harmonic language in between the surrounding audio abstractions.

Where Inventory (2019) presented the sounds and tools making up Spellcasters universe, memo (2022) further unfolded anybard's story, their loss of memory, their recordings for Deleted and encountering Companion through distinct compositions. memo ends with a message being transmitted into the ether, and the shadow channel is this very ether. Within this alienated environment, the possibility of ensemble appears. Mimicking a heist-movie, entities (or "hacker-bards") are summoned to form the spellchestra and conspire to produce "the fertilizer for roots of the subversive tree", a mirroring between reality and fiction. 

credits:
all music composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by h hartvig nielsen 2022-2025
performed by spellcaster and the spellchestra
electric bass on seance by Seán Being
mixed by h hartvig nielsen
with mix consultation by No Master's Voice / M. Ferreira
master by Kommunal Dubplate Service / Hari Kishore
Artwork by Oliver Laumann & spellcaster

spellchestra:
Arte Carlander as stringstrum
Simin Stine Ramezanali as starmeem / meanstar
Mija Milovic as em
Stine Victoria Huyn as from the echo
Tettix Hexer as aeroborn
Oliver Laumann as measure
h hartvig nielsen as anybard
license


the not-yet-deleted

flickering with the flash beings

seance

giggl [heist theme]

chorus [hacker-bards]

receiver [vrå]

chorus [incantation of the spellchestra]

recording never stopped

chorus [coding the landscape]

contradictions

this is how i feel about you.

Released: 2025-11-01

LYRICS:
So she left again
She said she'd be going (She said)
I didn't think this would happen again
Was love really the plan

You're the only one with answers
That's why I'm writing to You
To ask

So Lord
Please save her for me (Save her)
Please do this one favor for me (For me)
Keep her safe wherever, forever
While I work on myself
And figure it out for You
And tell her I'm trying for her
Do this one favor
Please save her

So I wonder
If being lonely's what did it
Or to see me change
And how it'd be different
And do You think she would stay
Or is there more I'm missing
So tell me


You're the only one with answers
That's why I'm writing to You
To ask

So Lord
Please save her for me (Save her)
Please do this one favor for me (For me)
Keep her safe wherever, forever
While I work on myself
And figure it out for You
And tell her I'm trying for her
Do this one favor
Please save her

Please for me

a letter to you (God's letter)

this is how i feel about you.

Released: 2025-11-01

LYRICS:
Calling back
I know there's been a lot of late nights
It's just what it was
Cause I know med school was hard enough
Than to deal with this
I know it's a been a lot of feeling differently
And I still wonder what it was

And I wish
I could hear you sing to me
All those songs on your radio
Like you used to

But no matter how far away we are
I'll always carry you in my heart
And I'll forever sing those songs
The ones I hold so close to my heart
Baby, I still belong with you
Now that you're gone
I'm alone with this Megan Moroney song

megan moroney

this is how i feel about you.

Released: 2025-11-01

LYRICS:
We said this would happen
And still said we'd try
We knew this would happen
From so many tries (So many)

Pushed to the side
Whatever came to mind (Whatever)
It hurt me knowing
It eats you up inside

You were scared of the feeling
And said you couldn't stay
But I held onto something to save it anyway
So I figured out how to change my way
To love, to love you

The way I should
She saved me

Don't know where to go
Cause nothing seems real
And we've been here before
Never had time to heal (We never)

Pushed to the side
Whatever felt inside
It hurts me knowing
This could be our last goodbye

You were scared of the feeling
And said you couldn't stay
But I held onto something to save it anyway
So I figured out how to change my way
To love, to love you

The way I should
She saved me

the way i should (she saved me)

this is how i feel about you.

Released: 2025-11-01

LYRICS:
You asked me will we last if we try
Why would I not
Wanna see you smile for the rest of my life
Or the way you lay on your side
Or the way you make your own coffee with pride

There's a lot I could say
But would it fit in a song
All the words I wrote down
Can't fit them all

So I wrote this song for you
So you could keep it
This song will last forever

It's no secret
Just what you mean to me
I'll make sure you know it

I'll always make sure you know it

You'll always know it

you'll always know

this is how i feel about you.

Released: 2025-11-01

LYRICS:
Here's a pen and paper
Write it all down
Let it out
Everything
You're upset, I know this
And I hope you notice how we are now

I made you cry
I know it hurt
I should've told you sooner
The way I felt in that moment I can't explain
I know I left
Since then I know it's been harder for both of us
Cause it's just been so long
So now I'm coming back
To the place I used to have
I know I'm meant to be there
Cause now all I ask

Can I stay here
In this moment forever
With you

all i ask

Deep in Your Love (Ocean)

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who am i
a certain kinda lie
the type of kid who never made a burden for a life
so here i go 
a foot in my demise 
i’m closer to my final destination she implied
a runner up 
the pills go by design
lonely keep on looking for me 
everybody lies  
a runner up
the one who made her cry 
holy water doesn’t even work 
i’m still alive 

undead 
with you 
always undead
holding my breath with you 
holding my head
holding my heart 
it could jump out my chest 
so i go and take part with some drugs 
i guess 

who am i
a certain kinda lie
the type of kid who never made a burden for a life
so here i go 
a foot in my demise 
i’m closer to my final destination she implied
a runner up 
the pills go by design
lonely keep on looking for me 
everybody lies  
a runner up
the one who made her cry 
holy water doesn’t even work 
i’m still alive

memo

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