Faded Fluorescence, taken from Lights & Motions debut album Reanimation, can now be heard in the new promotional campaign for Universals upcoming blockbuster Fast & Furious 9. The Film is set to premiere in theaters June 25th.
Introducing Endeavour, the new full-length album from composer Christoffer Franzén. The record will feature 11 brand new songs, weaving in and out of multiple genres, hopefully providing an immersive experience meant to quiet the noise of the outside world. To be released by Deep Elm Records on May 21.
Pre-order: https://orcd.co/franzen-endeavour
We are happy to announce the December 4, 2020 release of The Great Wide Open (Reimagined) by Lights & Motion is out now everywhere music lives digitally. The mini-album contains brand new “reimagined” recordings composed in a different sonic vein and tonal aura than their predecessors which appear on The Great Wide Open full-length released in May 2020. The new arrangements find themselves in more ambient, atmospheric and ethereal territory. The mini-album also included one entirely new track called “Winter Solstice”.
Purchase / Listen: http://orcd.co/lights-reimagined
We are happy to announce the December 4, 2020 release of The Great Wide Open (Reimagined) by Lights & Motion. The mini-album contains brand new “reimagined” recordings composed in a different sonic vein and tonal aura than their predecessors which appear on The Great Wide Open full-length released in May 2020. The new arrangements find themselves in more ambient, atmospheric and ethereal territory. The mini-album also included one entirely new track called “Winter Solstice”.
Coming December 4th on Deep Elm Records.
Pre-Order: http://orcd.co/lights-reimagined
Christoffer Franzén´s new EP “Ghost Of You” is out now everywhere where music lives digitally, on Deep Elm Records.
”Ghost Of You is a selection of songs I wrote sporadically throughout the past two years in between albums and film scores. They all have a certain melancholy to them, which I used as a through line when putting the mini-album together. Each of these five tracks were written during Swedish winters, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that sense of melancholy sounds very Nordic to me. The sound of these songs is stripped back and relatively sparse, painting a vivid picture in my mind of a dark snowy night in the silence of a Scandinavian forest. When I listen to songs, especially Tainted and Splinter, I perceive them to almost be balancing between the beautiful and the dark, and that is where I wanted this mini-album to live. I firmly believe they can be one and the same,” says Franzen.
Download / Purchase the EP:
Christoffer recently sat down with Spartan Records to discuss life, creativity, music and his latest Lights & Motion album The Great Wide Open, which is coming to vinyl in October / November.
We are so excited to announce that the latest Lights & Motion album, The Great Wide Open, is getting a beautiful limited edition vinyl release.
There will be two different variants available, “Snow Storm” and “Light Show”, with 250 pressed of each one. The vinyl will also include a new bonus track called “Eyes Looking Up”. Its being released alongside Seattle based Spartan Records, who also pressed the bands previous full-length album Dear Avalanche on vinyl.
You can pre-order either via the US or the EU/UK store, depending on where you are in the world:
• US / World: https://spr.tn/thegreatwideopen
• EU / UK: https://spr.tn/tgwouk
Christoffer Franzén will release an EP with 5 new tracks on September 25th, through Deep Elm Records. The EP will be called “Ghost Of You”
The new Lights & Motion album The Great Wide Open is now out everywhere music lives.
“It’s been more then three years since Lights & Motion last released a full-length album. And that’s been on purpose because I felt like I didn’t want to rush this writing process. I wanted to spread it out over a long period of time and really let it bloom organically, allowing myself to see where these songs would take me without putting a deadline on it. I found myself daydreaming about being away at different places, seeing new parts of the world and making up stories in my head…and trying my best to achieve that through music. Good music has always had the ability to transport me to other places, and that is how I have lived much of my inner life. I wanted to build a rich world of sounds, lights and colors that maybe could have that same effect on other people too, as an escape from their everyday life. Very early on in the process I decided that this album would be called ‘The Great Wide Open’ and I tailored my creative process to sit on top of those four words, which for me, have such an imaginative power not only physically, but spiritually too. I was looking for an escape too, and I found refuge in creating these songs that act as snapshots of time and place. As we’ve just left a decade behind us, I look back on it and it’s been such a blur of amazing experiences and creativity. It was the decade where I finally found the courage to write and release the kind of music that I always wanted to create. As well, it’s had its personal highs and lows. It’s therefore fitting that I begin this new decade by releasing an album filled with songs that have becoming very near and dear to me, and that I hope will take on a life of their own now that they’re getting ready to leave the solitude of my studio.”
“At the end of the day we are all just trying to connect, and that’s really what this record is all about for me. My biggest hope and ambition is that you will listen to this and find yourself discovering new places, even if you’re still lying at home in your bed or taking a walk around your neighborhood. There is a quote from Peter Pan that I keep returning to in periods of self-doubt and that really resonates with me, which goes, ‘The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.’ So take flight, whatever that means to you. The images you receive from music will definitely be different from the ones I receive, and that is a wonderful thing because our experiences are our own. I feel really grateful to have had the chance to write another long-form collection of songs, and now we arrive at the part which I enjoy the most; sharing them with the world.”
The album was produced and mixed by Christoffer Franzén. Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles. Released on Deep Elm Records.
Also available on limited edition vinyl, both in our US / EU store:
• US / World: https://spr.tn/thegreatwideopen
• EU / UK: https://spr.tn/tgwouk
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the film Sea Fever that Christoffer scored last year is now out everywhere. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last september, and was picked up for distribution. The film is also now available to buy / rent on VOD.
The film was directed by Neasa Hardiman.
” Working with Neasa on Sea Fever was a very collaborative experience that stretched out for a long period of time as the film was in editing. Early on she told me about her vision of having music that almost sounded like it was a part of the boat where the people are stranded. From our conversations I wanted to create something atmospheric and textural, while still having it feel organic. I recorded my piano playing very low notes in a specific key, and then I took those recordings and processed / looped them through tape-saturation so that we got this evolving and moving texture in a specific key, without the attack of the piano. Another thing I did was that I took cello recordings and pitched them down and did all kinds of processing so that they sounded nothing like cellos, but rather this low menacing soundscapes. This technique became sort of a foundation of the score, using organic sounds and instruments to create something else.
The main sound / theme for the creature was a brass-section of trombones that I pitch-shifted, reversed and distorted so that it felt really primal and aggressive. In stark contrast to this, our main protagonist Siobhán´s theme is a very simple piano sequence that sounds very clear, alluding to her being a scientist and a very rational person.
There is another danger motif that can be heard in a couple of instances in the film, where a female voice ebbs and swells in and out of the music, being almost dissonant but not quite. That was the beautiful voice of a Berlin based singer called Adna, which I then took and mangled / processed to create that eerie effect. “
