Name: Beautiful Illusions
Brand: Tor Lundvall

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DAIS190lp

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

011586672437

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

DAIS190lp-C1

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Blue/Orange Galaxy Vinyl

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Extended format: Yes

011586672413

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Tor Lundvall

Genre US

Label US

Dais

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.

New Wave / Post Punk

New York painter and musician exploratory industrialist Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album, Beautiful Illusions, as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral watching the shifting sunlight through stained glass.” Although he ultimately chose to wreath the majority of the tracks with hushed, poetic vocals, his original muse still resonates. These are certainly songs of shadow play and vaulted skies, the quiet grandeur of dusk deepening on the horizon. Lundvall characterizes the lyrical subject matter, too, in ways both specific and surreal, exploring “the doubts, the anxieties and even the bleak fantasies the mind spirals into during moments of isolation, separation and distance.” Tricks of the eye, mind, and ear, magnified by silence and the looming long winter.

Shivering pulses and muted bass lines tread the twilight while icicle synths and wiry guitar map the melody until the voice enters, narrating oblique moods of essence and absence, tenderness and truth. Glimpses of dark humor flicker in the wordplay but the greater sonic landscape is one of falling leaves and failing light, small gestures rendered as revelation, cloaked in reverb and spatial fog. Lundvall’s mastery of nuance and negative space continues to heighten, whispered brushstrokes of the invisible and the unsaid, what lies beneath and what lies beyond: “behind the shields and false fronts is usually a sadness. The heartbreaking reflections of what might have been.”

Beautiful Illusions

Music US