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strange skies
MMXIV
Here's something I wrote in 2010 regarding the original
release of
Strange Skies
:
Back when I was doing my radio show on Stillstream, I was
dedicated to finding as much new music as I could, so I would find
and listen to a lot of music. Some was good, some was fair, some
was awful. But then there were some albums that I would keep
coming back to. Even as new music appeared for me to play, I
would be drawn to certain releases that just rose above the rest.
To me,
Strange Skies
is one of those.
Released on defunct netlabel (those words seem to show up as a
phrase too often these days…) Lunar Flower,
Strange Skies
is the
work of Swedish artist/synthesist Mats Persson. Over the course of
these 7 tracks, Persson builds a lush sonic world in which to dream,
wonder or just be.
The tracks each have their own voice, but more important to the
effect of this album is the feel of continuous flowing waves of
sound. While there is silence between individual tracks, it feels a
natural continuation of the soft droning pads that permeate the
tracks.
There are times when listening to certain albums or pieces that I
have a feeling that this sound has created a world that I can
inhabit. It is something that I feel and intuit more than something
logically constructed. I can’t really explain it very well, but the best I
can come up with is that I have the sensation of floating weightless
in a warm, dark space. I don’t really think—the brain slows down
and the monkey mind is silenced. I can just be. This is one of
those albums that carves out a space like this for me. I can drift,
semi-conscious, on clouds of simple flowing sound.
Sorry if that isn’t sufficiently descriptive of the music itself, but the
best I can do is describe my reaction the music and how it makes
me feel.
I jokingly poked Mats a few days ago, urging him to make more
music. He good-naturedly replied that he knew it was something
he should do. Well, I don’t know what he ‘should’ do. I don’t think
music like this can come when there is pressure to produce. It
comes out of moments that arise that require their expression in
sound. It does take time and effort to put this together, but I think it
will happen when the urge to create is too strong. Then it won’t feel
like an effort—it will just feel right.
I can’t wait for that moment to strike Mats again. In the meantime,
I will just listen to Strange Skies over and over and drift through that
heavenly space.
There isn't much more I can add to that, except to note
that the new tracks which Mats has composed
excellently complement and extend the original work.
This look back to the past, then, provides a glimpse into
the future of Mats' music. And it's a beautiful future,
indeed.
I am very proud to re-introduce you to the sublime
music of M. Persson: Sounds.
Brad Ross-MacLeod
Vancouver, WA
January 2014
http://freefloatingmusic.com
strange skies
MMXIV
m.persson: sounds
ffm•025
1/ strange skies
2/ all around us
3/ interception
4/ flow
5/ before the end
6/ together forever
7/ a gap in time
8/ meeting you
9/ just be around me
10/ i'll meet you in the skies
11/ disappearing light
12/ losing you
13/ strange skies
(full: 1-6 above)
all music by m.persson: sounds
http://annavant.se/sounds/
06/13
04/51
06/07
05/22
03/10
05/58
16/08
05/42
07/00
07/56
06/20
04/21
31/39
Released January 2014 by Free Floating Music
Artwork by Brad Ross-MacLeod
Original photo by Nicholas A. Tonelli
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-
ND 3.0 License.
http://freefloatingmusic.com

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