New album Endeavour out now

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Endeavour is out now everywhere music lives.

”What originally started out as minimalist pandemic piano pieces quickly morphed into something completely different. Throughout all the years of writing music, I have learned not to interfere with creativity and to simply let it go where it wants and not try to control it. I found myself writing expansive arrangements that wove in and out of multiple genres and moods, ranging from full orchestral suites to ethereal synthesizers and electronics. Then I began to incorporate a lot of subtle guitar-work halfway through the writing process. It was around that time and with that combination of colors when I felt it all click together and I could see the entire scope of the album clearly,” says Franzen.

Franzen continues, ” The end result is something I feel very proud of…a widescreen collage of songs that fit together while at the same time are able to stand on their own two feet as individual compositions. There is a red thread that runs through Endeavour, from the opening piano chords of And We Collide Into Nothingness to the final atmospheric swirls of Distorted Dreams. Both the arrangements and the production on this album have been meticulously crafted to the best of my abilities, in order to give the listener an immersive experience that hopefully can quiet the noise of the outside world, at least for a spell. I spent over a year by myself in a room writing and recording this album and I am really looking forward to sharing these new pieces with the world. The album is called Endeavour, because that is exactly what it represented to me.”

Listen to the album: https://orcd.co/franzen-endeavour

Announcing new Christoffer Franzén album ”Endeavour”

Christoffer Franzen - Endeavour Artwork

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

The Great Wide Open (Reimagined) – Out now!

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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

Announcing: The Great Wide Open (Reimagined)

The Great Wide Open Announcement

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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

https://youtu.be/VATBe-MN6t0
Trailer for ”The Great Wide Open (Reimagined)”

”Ghost Of You” – The new EP from Christoffer Franzén is out now

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:

 https://orcd.co/franzen-ghost

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The Great Wide Open – Limited Edition Vinyl

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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

Vinyl Announcement Trailer
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”Snow Storm” Variant
”Light Show” Variant

The Great Wide Open – Out Now!

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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.

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Also available on limited edition vinyl, both in our US / EU store:

• US / World: https://spr.tn/thegreatwideopen
• EU / UK:  https://spr.tn/tgwouk