”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.”
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
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: