Name: Yule
Brand: Tor Lundvall

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DAIS159

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Black

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

011586670808

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

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

Upstate New York artist Tor Lundvall's music often evokes a sense of soft-focus autumnal melancholia but nowhere is this atmosphere more explicit and evocative than his self-released 2006 holiday album, Yule, newly reissued by Dais Records. Inspired by childhood memories of “cold, dark evenings” waiting for his mother outside shops and supermarkets while seasonal songs drifted faintly on the frozen air, the collection feels appropriately hushed and hypnagogic, half-remembered melodies heard through falling snow. Steady muted rhythmic pulses wind through wintry landscapes of icy synthetic textures, glass bells, and distant metallic echoes, occasionally framed by Lundvall's soft, dazed vocals, narrating scenes of “slushy, illuminated train stations” and “the lonely trees of January, still entangled with blue lights long after the season has ended.” It's a music of barren branches, crescent moons, and willowy figures shuffling and shivering on their way somewhere, viewed from a fogged window passing by, or high above. As with Lundvall's signature oil paintings, Yule's sonic vignettes are works of observation, poetic glimpses rendered in gradients of color and quiet. He has referred to his music in the past as “ghost ambient” and, although his songwriting here skews more foreground than background, the phrase aptly captures the haunted, half-light quality of these fragile tracks. 10 miniatures of wreathed streets and silent woods, of twinkling store windows seen from a distance, the sensation of being outside of life looking in – the sentiments that seeded Lundvall's vision remain undimmed: “There was a special melancholic beauty about these moments that has never left me.”

Yule

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