Very nice, Jim! What I'm drawn most to are the harmonic choices & sone ofctge more plaintive keyboard parts. Very dramatic & has a distinctive swing in there!

Such a highly strange,  yet captivating atmospheric piece full of twists and turns along the way. Very cinematic!

Peaks and troughs of interweaving textures paint a colourful landscape.

Some lovely harmonic shifts here , Jim. It is music to listen to with eyes closed and mind open.  A journey through imaginary worlds.

A luminous and sophisticated journey into the very depths of sound and dynamic expression. The shift into the interpretive jazz passage midway is utterly captivating—like stepping into a new world of colors and rhythms. This stands among the finest artistic offerings you have shared. Bravo, with deepest admiration.

"Topographic Meadows"
Valhjim 

In Topographic Meadows, sound moves like light over changing landscapes—soft chords drifting like mist, clarinet melodies winding through open spaces, brass surges rising like sunlit hills. Near the horizon, a jazz quartet stirs the air with bright syncopations before the scene dissolves into distant, fading clarinet echoes, each part conjuring a different aspect of these Topographic Meadows.
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Valhjim: Synthesizers, samplers, SFX.

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Topographic Meadows

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.

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