Filip Leyman, a consistent collaborator with Anna von Hausswolff, has released his debut solo album, Soft Light. The new full-length is now available on von Hausswolff’s Pomperipossa Records. Head into the article below for more information.
Buy/stream Soft Light here: https://pomperipossa.lnk.to/softlight
“I’m thrilled to share that my new album Soft Light is released today on Anna’s Pomperipossa Records. It’s a collection of modular improvisations, at first nothing more than sonic explorations created for my own curiosity and pleasure. As time passed, the collection grew, and the idea of an album began to take form. To have it released on Pomperipossa, the label run by my best friend Anna von Hausswolff is an absolute dream. I am so grateful to her for making this happen. The pressing, on black and blue galaxy vinyl, is beautiful. The cover is a photograph I took on a late summer night by the lake at the family summer house. It’s my favourite place in the world. I hope the record transports you somewhere, too.” — Filip Leyman
Soft Light is the debut solo release of an artist who has collaborated with Anna for most of her career and is easily among her closest creative partners. Over the years, Filip has been accumulating recordings from his live modular sessions without a fixed plan for release. These now form the basis of Soft Light, a seamless 7-track album. Soft Light emerges as a bottomless stream that pulls you through rising rhythms and microtonal melodies. This celestial atmosphere is the work of a prodigious composer who conjures and bends sounds at will.
The result of Leyman’s tinkering is galaxies away from the sketches on most cutting room floors. Soft Light finds Leyman tempering the wild electronics of his studio equipment into an organic panorama. This control is the hallmark of Leyman’s mastery of his craft, as his studio experiments explode with life and depth. Hovering between dissonant tremors and burning romantic swells, Leyman maintains a supernatural fourth-world logic on the album, casting fugal melodies into trance-like progressions. The winds turn, and gliding string reflections soar in endless half-life, surrounded by sensitive, time-worn ambience.