Name: Last Light
Brand: Tor Lundvall

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DAIS219LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-10

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0683950556898

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Black LP

Artist

Tor Lundvall

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Electronic

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Dais

Dais Records is an independent American record label founded by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York, Dais Records operates as a genre-agnostic label with a focus on experimental and avant-garde music. The label represents both emerging and established active artists while also curating rare and out of print material for reissue projects. Dais Records exclusively distributes its releases through Secretly Distribution.

Tor Lundvall is an American painter and musician, born in 1968 in Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA. He is known for his atmospheric and haunting soundscapes that blend elements of ambient, darkwave, and experimental music. Lundvall's music has been compared to artists such as Kammarheit, Sleep Research Facility, and Northaunt.

With a career spanning over two decades, Lundvall has released numerous albums that have garnered critical acclaim within the ambient music community. His unique approach to composition combines delicate melodies with ethereal textures, creating immersive sonic landscapes that transport listeners to otherworldly realms.

In addition to his musical endeavors, Lundvall is also an accomplished visual artist. His paintings often evoke a sense of mystery and nostalgia, capturing fleeting moments of beauty in everyday life. Drawing inspiration from nature and the human experience, his artwork complements his music by further immersing audiences into his introspective world.

Originally released as a hand-numbered CD on New Year’s Eve of 2004, Last Light captures Tor Lundvall’s hushed songcraft at its most ghostly and grayscale, stripped bare like branches bracing for winter. Initially conceived of as “a piano album with sparse electronics” (with the working title November), Lundvall’s palette steadily expanded, incorporating synthesizer, samples, bass, metronomes, and his signature spectral vocals. A journal entry from the spring of 2002 proved formative to his evolving vision: “I remember watching the blueish-grey light shimmering outside and hearing distant sounds echoing far away, eventually sinking into silence and stillness.&nbsp;&nbsp;

”The album’s 12 tracks are steeped in this sense of autumnal transience, of bearing witness to what fades. The music moves in whispered swells, between dirge, drift, and devotional. Synths chime like slow-tolling bells; percussion shuffles and shivers, icy and isolated; bass traces a low-lidded plod–it’s a mode both austere and seductive, lulling the listener into its landscapes of deepening dusk. Lyrically, Lundvall’s language skews observational and depressive (“through lace curtains / grey light falls / dark clouds gather / in my soul”), with each song like a gauzy glimpse into a different tableau framing winter’s descent: rust-colored leaves, frozen ponds, cold crescent moons.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Lundvall has long considered Last Light a “personal favorite” in his discography, and it’s easy to hear why. In texture, finesse, and pacing, it vividly evokes the rare mood of fragile, frosty pastoral noir depicted in his iconic oil paintings. His is an art of the half-seen and half-remembered, of fleeting figures, shapes and shadows, and gathering darkness. Of all that disappears, and the ghosts that never leave: “So I wait / as the years /slowly drain the magic and the light / and the girl / I never loved / haunts me through the dark roads of my life.”

Last Light 

Music GB

Discover Last Light by Tor Lundvall. Originally released in 2004, this haunting album captures Lundvall's hushed songcraft at its most ghostly and grayscale. Available on vinyl from Dais Records.