Mikael Lind - Intentions And Variations

Tracklist

1	Intentions And Variations	7:00
2	Sleeping Pauper	5:10
3	Unyielding Rocks	5:19
4	With A Murmur	5:55
5	Eternal Weaver	4:14

Credits

• Artwork – Julia Guther
• Mixed By, Mastered By – Paul Evans
• Written By, Performer – Mikael Lind

Notes

"Lind has emerged from his own hiatus to craft a gorgeous set of surprisingly different material: a gamble that few composers take, and that even fewer composers execute so well."
- Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

Intentions and Variations is composer Mikael Lind's most ambient work to date, absent of beats, filled with soundscapes and sound manipulation. Weightless music that may make you think of Christopher Bissonette, Deaf Center or Stephen Mathieu. Lind's tracks are based on simple themes – often performed by a piano or a viola – but his compositions gradually evolve into more complex creations and mature textures by letting electronically manipulated sounds interact.

As in Lind's previous releases, these five sonic explorations are more comforting than agitating. But make no mistake: underneath their beautiful surface, threatening forces constantly loom, waiting to be unleashed: In 'Unyielding Rocks' the shimmering sounds are almost drowned in a wall of droning distortions. But those multi-layered elements never fully negate the solemn aspect of Lind's music, or, as he puts it: "Complexity is a wonderful thing, but should never be an end in itself."
credits
released April 8, 2016

Intentions and Variations was recorded in Reykjavik 2014-2015

The artwork includes remixes of open source images:

Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833. E. Weiß: "Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt",

Praekestolen (i.e., Preikestolen), Geiranger Fjord, Norway, and Drifting ice, Spitzbergen, Norway - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington,

Astronomy – Ziva casopis –

Youmans, Edward Livingston Chemical atlas. D. Appleton. Decomposition of Light; structure of solar rays

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
morr 143	Mikael Lind	Intentions And Variations ‎(12")	Morr Music	morr 143	Europe	2016
morr 143	Mikael Lind	Intentions And Variations ‎(CD, EP, Dig)	Morr Music	morr 143	Europe	2016