The new album from renowned Norwegian ambient/electronic artist Erik Wollo evolved from layers of sustained guitars inspiring infinite space and a minimal essence, creating a spell of slow, melodic calming soundscapes. The sustained Ebow guitars aim the music in a totally new expansive direction with melodic elements, rhythmic arpeggio loops and some percussion added to the treated guitar ensembles. The mood sets the emotional course: vast and spacious, minimalistic and sparse in character. NORTH STAR is an inward journey of stillness and reflection. Music that shifts between contemplation and intimacy, impulse and reflection.
Erik Wøllo in his own words on ‘North Star’: «NORTH STAR» is an inward journey of stillness and reflection. Music that shifts between contemplation and intimacy, impulse and reflection. I aimed to create a cohesive album with each track adding to a unified whole, yet retaining separate character that stands on its own. It is more like a sequence of photos of a journey in an album rather than chapters in a book. The music turns each moment of listening into something more vivid than is possible in any earthly spell of time. Always with a slow and calm pace.”
Released Mid June 2021 by Projekt.
Track Listing:
01. Arkipel
02. Viewpoint
03. All the Way
04. Stillness
05. Towards the Blue Horizon
06. Nightscape
07. Light Among Shadows
08. North Star