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The gaye device This is just gorgeous. Slowly evolving cello and synth compositions that just make you stop and listen. Soft as falling snow, melancholy and beautiful. Essential winter listening.
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funkdawg You know how slow the cold is, especially when there’s no wind & frost everywhere - even on the trees. You can’t help but stop & stare, breathe slowly & take it all in - the stillness, frozen in time, such beauty but you know it won’t last forever. The necessity to stop, to look for the beauty & just breathe it all in - because it gives you life & gives your life precious meaning. Well these staggeringly beautiful compositions are the absolute perfect soundtrack to such scenes and such da
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Joe Borreson Delving between light and shadow, a cello line plays a warm drawn out line of meticulous tone, held in place with deeply moving ambiance all the while an underlying melancholy vibe soothes and pulls you in. This sounds like medieval ambient classical if there was such a way to define it. Fans of earlier Christoph Berg, take note. Favorite track: Frälse.
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chris coote top drawer...seriously beautiful.music. & for. the covid...apocylypse. x Favorite track: Kval.
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Suddig 04:36
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Gryning 08:14
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Fjäril 07:12
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Fälten 06:42
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Frälse 02:42
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Sorg 03:38
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Frist 02:47
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Kval 05:04
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Dröm 07:18
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Mönster 04:56
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Vind 04:05
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Andrum 11:02

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A necessary follow-up his first album on Ambientologist, Kval strengthens Henrik's crossing of medieval evocation and meditative ambient cello. Where Själ sought to remain non-directional in its expression, Kval turns on a central theme, guiding a narrative through the mundane and the sublime.

From its slow dawn opening, the album soon turns to depictions of doubt and sorrow, from the toil of the everyday to the unbearable suffering of loss. Henrik's unmistakable grasp of emotive performance is steeped in centuries-old ancestral memory, bringing forth relatable experiences of the past. Kval visits the emotions we all face, and have faced for centuries, from the inspired to the stoic to the inescapably despaired.

Among this however, is the ever-present decision to be made, whether to be owned by one's suffering or to work with it. A sense of accepting life's burden begins to seep into the narrative, at first challenging but eventually reassuring, bringing much needed peace to life's patterns.

And at the end of it all, transcendence. A better view of the landscape. Crossroads, growing pains, necessary suffering, all inseparable parts of being human, and the only way to truly grow.



"...scratchy, moody, and capricious laments, sustained atmospherics, and resonant lines, falling somewhere between medieval folk melodies of the North and abstract, minimal, and meditative ambience of the nowhere." - Headphone Commute

"...ever mournful yet resolute." - A Closer Listen

"...a sound imagined from constantly transcendent traits." - Music Won't Save You

"... there is hope, light, and confidence...' - Ambient Blog

"Henrik Meierkord's cello reminds us how much it is the ideal instrument to open the endless corridors of time..." - Tartine de Contrebasse

"If you want a cathartic ambient hour to bawl your eyes out to, Henrik Meierkord has you covered here." - Higher Plain

"Kval, just like Meierkord's expression in general, is people's soul, paganism, soil and feverish stray walks in deep forest in November. Meierkord's sound is more Swedish than Selma Lagerlöf, more European than Goethe. But above all, damn good." - 482 MHz

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All tracks composed and performed by Henrik Meierkord
Mastering by Ian Hawgood
Art by Ishika Guha
Design by Ambientologist

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released January 8, 2021

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