Strings and Clusters, by Mikael Lind

Strings and Clusters

by Mikael Lind

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1.	Shapeshifting Clouds 05:20	buy track
2.	Frozen Waves 06:08	buy track
3.	Aural Disintegration 05:36	buy track
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Polar Seas is delighted to welcome Mikael Lind to the label with his new album Strings and Clusters. Beautiful string arrangements are presented in their natural state, electronically manipulated or distorted and saturated with gorgeous results. After releasing works on Morr Music and Time Released Sound, this is Mikael’s most experimental work to date.

recorded by Mikael Lind
mixed by Paul Evans
mastered by Paul Corley
additional production and creative mixing by Alex Somers

From Mikael: "Strings and Clusters was initially composed in Nodal, where you can very easily write polyrythmic music. I wrote lots of phrases for violin, viola, and cello, and had them recorded in such a way that they became building blocks for something larger. The next step was to put these phrases together in an interesting or pleasing way, and I worked intensely for a couple of months trying to find which phrases suited best in their naked form, and which I should transform through sound design techniques. 80% of what you hear on the album are from these original string recordings, but there's always a dialogue going on between the ambient string clusters and the naked strings"

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released September 21, 2018

"A soundtrack to BBC nature documentaries never made, a giant Sigur Rós interlude, a melancholy Instagram dreamscape of barren valleys and vistas… this one has it all." - Norman Records

"Strings and Clusters seems a natural progression from 2016’s Intentions and Variations. We can visualize the phrases on a cutting board, being spliced and rearranged, the artist pausing to reconsider each placement. The end result: an album that sounds like the work of a small ensemble with conductor, the best and most beautiful work of Lind’s career to date." - A Closer Listen

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