Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to present our first release by Swedish composer Tobias Hellkvist. Drone can mean so many things, but the tranquil sounds of Hellkvist are a special breed. His specialty: sonorous melodies that stretch ever so slowly into a gentle river of sound, like the peal of a bell that echoes indefinitely. Tobias has worked with a lot of different colors and timbres over the years, building layers of sound and tearing them down, but Pause finds him mining his archives, resurrecting a more minimalist work from nearly 10 years ago and breathing new life into it.
Tobias Hellkvist
Pause
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- Duration:
- 25:36
- Format:
- Digital, Streaming
- Release Date:
- October 30, 2015
- Cover:
- Track Listing:
- Pause
- Purchase:
- Bandcamp
- Listen:
- Apple Music
- TIDAL
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Quote:
Igloo Magazine
December 31, 2015
December 31, 2015
Hellkvist’s tone is set early on—dense diaphanous swathes and sustained tintinnabulation, late in the day tweaked transportively to endlessness.
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Stationary Travels
November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015
…Pause is an immaculate accretion of shimmering and expanding layers of sound over the languid course of its twenty-five minute length – an ambient drone purist’s delight.
AmbientBlog
November 15, 2015
November 15, 2015
…a perfect companion for a…moment of quiet…