Ladies and gents! I give you the complete tracklist for IMBALANCES
Black Star
Signs
Ominous
The Flood
Ghosts
The Fire
29.09.17
Fragments
The Path That Led Astray
Bright
Somewhere
The albums total length is 44 minutes
Only 10 days left now. I’m so excited!
Now I’m of to see JOKER (really excited about that aswell!) and then I need to get some sleep!
Over and out
T
Good evening listeners. My 2nd single Ominous is coming Tuesday, June 11th and will (as usual) be available on every digital music platform out there.
Ominous was actually the first song I composed during the creating process of IMBALANCES and I was not in a good place at the time.
Honestly it’s tough for me emotionally to listen to the song for that reason. It’s the same with many other songs on the record. Maybe even more. They give me memories from a time and place that I just want to repress! But that’s also a useful reminder that I was able to climb myself up from the dark and deep hole I was in for most of the time during the making of this album. Actually, even though this might sound cliche, I have this album to thank for just that!
My first album was, in a way, my ”heartache-album”. My second album was my ”anxiety-album”, you can say. My third album (which I actually thought would be my last) was my ”love-and-death-album”.
I would like to, without wanting to sound too dramatic here, call this my ”survival-album”. And I feel that… if my music can heal and help me in such ways, as well as other persons on this planet (people literally have told me that my music has saved their lives!), I feel it would be nothing else but downright stupid to quit doing what I’m doing.
Music can really have powerful effects on us. That’s really the magic of music. I remember Ingmar Bergman once said that ”Music is a healing force that makes life worth living”. I completely agree with that even though, quite frankly, he seemed to be a huge douchebag!
So! June 11th, it is. The full tracklist and release date for IMBALANCES is also coming your way soon.
Stay tuned
Tomas
Good news listeners! My 4th full length album IMBALANCES is now officially DONE. Or at least MY part is! Now the songs will go through a mixing-process by producer/musician Johan Arveli and then a mastring-process at Cutting Room Studios in Stockholm.
The feelings I have at the moment is a mixture of excitement and relief (I put roughly 16 months of work into it!) but also a feeling of emptiness and a bit of sorrow, actually. But that was expected. I get the same feelings after every album I make. It’s logical. The difference this time around though, is that I feel more excited and satisfied than I normally do after I’ve finished a record, and that’s remarkable…
So, now you know the status! I’m eying for an early autumn-release (this isn’t a summer-album!) with a second single coming somewhere in between. I will soon also reveal the tracklist of the 11 songs featured on the album.
Stay tuned folks and have a joyful easter!
T
Listeners. Felt it was about time to give you another update.
First of all, I would like to share with you the finished album cover made by the artist KAPE. I think it’s just awesome! Mysterious, abstract, dark and it fits with my new music like a fist in a glove.
Regarding the release date. I was thinking about releasing the album in spring at first BUT now I’m thinking about an autumn release. And why is that? Well, this album is simply not a spring/summer album. This record is the ”debby downer” of my catalogue and therefore no sane person would want to listen to it while relaxing in the sun outside. It’s like letting Bon Iver play at your wedding or watching a Mikael Haneke-movie while you’re happy. You just would not want that. And if I release it in autumn I’ll have a lot of time to really polish it and maybe ad a song or two cause there were only nine songs which made the cut. I originally had 16 (!) full songs but the self-critical perfectionist in me (which are getting more and more picky the higher I climb in my career) felt that there were only nine of them that qualified. 5 years ago maybe I would have chosen to release them all but that’s not the cause now.
So, I’m thinking about adding at least one song and maybe drop another song from the album before the release!
A couple of finished song titles from the record, that I also would want to share with you are: Black Star, Fragments, The Flood and Signs.
So, to conclude everything. Autumn-release date and most likely another single before that! As I said before, I can’t wait for you to hear all these songs. Some of the best pieces I’ve ever made are on this album. I think it’s the best album I’ve made since my debut. And there also are some similarities actually as I think I’ve mentioned before. It’s piano-focused, downscaled and intimate like EMOTIONS but it’s more mysterious, different and ominous. But this doesn’t mean I left out the dynamics. There a lot of power and drama in the mix as well!
That’s all for now. Stay tuned and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Peace
Tomas
Listeners! Just wanted to let you all know that my new single ’Somewhere” is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and (about) 24 other digital music-sites on the internet! I hope you will enjoy it!
I also have some good news AND (unfortunately) some bad news regarding my upcoming 4th album… The bad news is that the record will be delayed until 2019. Things took a bit longer than I predicted and I’ve also had some personal matters to handle. Therefore I won’t be able to have the album ready to be out this year. It’s as simple as that.
The GOOD news is… that it will be worth the wait. Some of this material is the best I’ve ever made. I’m so excited. I simply can’t wait for you to hear these pieces!
About half of the songs are recorded and the artwork (amazing) is completed. I will reveal it together with the album-title later on. In the meantime, enjoy ”Somewhere”, try to live in the present and enjoy the colors and the fresh late autumn-air outside. Take breaks from your mobile-screens and unsocial media. And be kind to yourselves, and eachother.
Peace,
Tomas
