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.

03 - Dagsverk

02 - Godmorgon framtid

01 - En bättre värld

Performed by Milton Hagström
Music & Lyrics by Per Gessle
Arranged by Pehr Flühr
All instruments by Pehr Flühr
Recorded by Sandra Andrianien at Sandviken Studios
Mixed and mastered by Pehr Flühr at 29Palms Studios in LA 2024

Flickan i en Cole Porter sång - MILTON HAGSTRÖM

The first track from ÄMNE•GRUND released by Stålverk on cassette and various streaming media services in 2023. STAL-C88

Daniel Palmberg
aemne.bandcamp.com
unprogamme.bandcamp.com



AEMNE - GRUND (Track 1)

Remember where you come from! Hectic was a Ska punk band from Sandviken recording a demo in 1994. The members all release music on Stålverk today: Olle (Lo), Daniel (ÄMNE) and Jon [krig]. We were aged 14-16 back then.
"More punk than you" was a song about people who didn't have the proper punk ideals but just jumped the bandwagon. We hade already been punks since late 1992 so we felt we had to teach the kids about real punk.

Hectic - More Punk Than You

From the 2024 release Pour Deux Accordéons 

After Un Programme was asked to perform at Vindöga-festival in Sandviken and Daniel bought two, almost identical, used toy accordions the idea to create this composition was born. Those looking for virtuoso accordion recordings will be surely disappointed - here you get bellowing soundscapes with looping beats, modular synths and jazz-infused organs. The live show at Vindöga was performed in 2023. This is the studio version with partially reworked material and split into separate tracks.

https://unprogramme.bandcamp.com/album/pour-deux-accord-ons

Un Programme - Elektriska varelser

Alpha Mound is back with a new release: this time an 11 minute banger! It's a live recording with no overdubs. You can watch him do his magic on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIiiQXjvoSQ

Alpha Mound is the recording project of Joakim Westlund, who has  released many albums, EPs and collaborations since 2012. His style is focused in the ambient genre and sometimes mixed into more deep going indie-electronica, techno and kraut sounds. The sound design is always a main feature where you can find complex melodies alongside slow drones and spare rhythms.

www.stalverk.se
https://alphamound.bandcamp.com/

Alpha Mound - Good Luck Sky

From the 2023 release Teknodam/West. 

Full EP here: www.stalverk.se 

Stålverk, Västerhavet, trummor och källardörrar som samspelar till rytmiska ljudlandskap. Materialet, som till största delen är egeninspelat, loopas, processas och samplas live.

Stycken som först framfördes live på Vindöga-festivalen 2023 släpps nu på Stålverk i digitalt format.

Jan Annerborn - West

This is a collaboration between the music producer LO and video artist DAPA Vision. Their creative efforts has resulted in a 40 minute VHS, released in limited edition (naturally) on Stålverk Records. Lo created the conteplative music, with its characteristic vinyl crackle, and DAPA Vision did the moving pictures with inspiration from mundane, everyday moments and TV static, a.k.a. "war of the ants". It was premiered at Gästrike konst (art festival) in april 2025.

LO + DAPA Vision - In Lokalen 3

From the 2023 release Teknodam/West. It's a composition utilizing a filed recording from the steel mill in Sandviken. What could be more appropriate for this label?!

Jan Annerborn - Teknodam

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Electronic music label from Sandviken, Sweden, founded in 1999.

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ALL TRACKS ARE PRODUCED, COMPOSED, WRITTEN and PERFORMED by PEHR FLÜHR (OTHER COMPOSER/ LYRICIST and MUSICIANS IS CREDITED) . PEHR FLÜHR IS A MEMBER OF STIM AND SAMI. (NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR SWEDISH ARTISTS) FORMER MEMBER OF EPTA SWEDEN (EUROPEAN PIANO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION).

INSPIRATION FROM PHIL SPECTOR, FRANK FARIAN, GIORGIO MORODER, TOMMY LIPUMA, QUINCY JONES, YELLOW JACKETS, JEFF LORBER, HAWK ON FLIGHT, MEZZOFORTE, DAVID FOSTER, BENGT PALMERS, JOHN WILLIAMS, PER ERIK HALLIN, TED GÄRDESTAD, KENNETH GÄRDESTAD, STEELY DAN, EARTH WIND AND FIRE, WOMACK AND WOMACK, ETC

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Stålverk Records

www.stalverk.se
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Tidsrymd

https://www.facebook.com/mareldproduktion

Slow-wave Sleep / Dröm i färg video:

https://youtu.be/zPkRS-b4NtI

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