Library tapes
Library Tapes is the name of a music project founded in Sweden in 2004 in the field of ambient , sound experiments and neoclassical music .
history
The project was started by the pianist David Wenngren (born 1981) and the guitarist Per Jardsell in Gävle ; the designation Library Tapes leaned it to the Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan on. The duo's first CD was released in August 2005 under the title Alone In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life on the British label Resonant. Piano, acoustic and electric guitar, balalaika and computer-generated sound surfaces combined to form seven atmospherically dense pieces of music, which critics have compared with the neoclassical compositions of Max Richter and the post-rock of A Silver Mt. Zion . After a second publication in 2006, Per Jardsell left Library Tapes, the project has since been continued by David Wenngren alone. The previously minimalist sound was initially radically reduced. On Höstluft (2007) only Wenngren's piano and individual, effective field recordings could be heard.
Driven by the desire to expand and develop his music, Wenngren invited the British cellist Danny Norbury and the American composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick (violin, guitar, accordion, trumpet, viola, banjo) to collaborate. Despite the now incomparably richer instrumentation that characterized the CD A Summer Beneath the Trees (2008), spherical, elongated ambient sounds continued to dominate the music, which, however, were occasionally replaced by more complex, melancholic melodies. Some reviewers, who for the most part rated the work very positively, recognized a “cinematic quality” in the compositions, which are still piano-dominated and occasionally reminiscent of Erik Satie . Wenngren also entered into isolated collaborations with other musicians such as Sylvain Chauveau ( see fragment ).
In 2008 Wenngren founded his own record label in Sweden with an attached small concert agency (Auetic), on which the CD Like Green Grass Against a Blue Sky was released in 2010 . With this release Wenngren spanned the arc back to the first works of library tapes, but his silent piano solos, interspersed with computer-generated sounds and field recordings, are for the most part more melodic than four or five years earlier. On Sun Peeking Through (2012) Wenngren worked for the first time with cellist Julia Kent and violinist Sarah Kemp .
Discography
- 2005 - Alone in the Bright Lights of a Shattered Life
- 2006 - Feelings for Something Lost
- 2007 - Sketches (EP)
- 2007 - Höstluft
- 2008 - fragment (EP)
- 2008 - A Summer Beneath the Trees
- 2010 - Like Green Grass Against a Blue Sky
- 2012 - Sun Peeking Through
- 2013 - Sketches, Outtakes and Rarities
- 2016 - Escapism
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with David Wenngren www.schallundraum.com, March 10, 2008 (accessed on January 31, 2011)
- ↑ Review on boomkat.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.boomcat.com (accessed January 31, 2011)
- ↑ Review on boomkat.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.boomcat.com (accessed January 31, 2011)
