Genre:  Ambient / Dream Pop

Track Listing:

1.Whir (mix #2)
2.29 (re-recorded single version)
3.The Backyard (original take)
4.November’s fields

‘The Seasons Unfold’ is planned to be a package with four records of Tor Lundvall’s older material. It’ll include the Winter record ‘Ice’ dated from 1999; the Spring one, ‘The Mist’, from 2001 and  the Summer album ‘Under the Shadows of trees’, from 2003. The Autumn record will be new in the package release. The songs all differ from the ones published. There is a re-recording, a version and the original take of three different songs. There is also a song that might – or might not- be included in the Fall record. The sampler is given away with any purchase you make in Strange Fortune until there are supplies available. Perhaps you will be a lucky one.

The entry of ‘Whir (mix #2) is so crystalline it is almost translucent. The dropping chimes are surrounded by a pulsating piano lines and a tangible atmosphere. It is so short it is almost lost, like a warm breeze in a autumn days. It seems that if you close your eyes and take a deep breath, the song has passed away in a fleeting instant, lost forever.  It was originally recorded for the ‘Ice’ album in November 1995, yet finally was put on a side.

’29 (re-recorder single version)’ has a haunting rhythm with which it opens. A counterpoint that sounds organic, as a stroll or a drop continuously falling into the same puddle. Tor Lundvall’s voice is like an apparition and it plows through the instrumentation, always accompanied and caped by diverse notes. The entire song falls into rhythm, looping and expanding. Piano, chimes and atmospheres bring the notes that dive into ‘29’. Of the song, Tor’s words inform that “The re-recorded version of "29" was originally intended as the B-Side of a 7" single with a (as yet unreleased) re-recording of "Ghost Girl" as the A-Side. The single never happened, however I'm quite fond of this 'cleaner and more atmospheric' version, which is rare for a re-recording.”

What follows in the original take of ‘The Backyard’. It walks into a more pop world, with a remarkable melody and an almost immediate voice. Belonging to the summer chapter of the four seasons, one can easily slip into an image of a bike strolling around a vivid, clear and bright memory of an August town. As an absolute contrast, ‘November’s Fields’ is opaque, in grayscales and full of longing. Suddenly it moves upward, as if to shake off the slumber of a cloud covered day in the beach with a small melody and more energy in the instrumentation. Nonetheless, every single movement is very soft, very subtle. ‘The seasons unfold’ sampler, as every other Tor Lundvall’s work, has the capacity of removing one from their surroundings and softly inserting them into a parallel reality from which you see and feel the world differently. Like a drug.