Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne - Spektralmaskin II [Sofa Music 610]

Released on October 23rd, 2k26 via the Norwegian Sofa Music label is "Spektralmaskin II", the follow up album to Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne's 2024 collaborative outing "Spektralmaskin". Once again based on the concept of microtonality on tuba paired with Lysne's particular e-bow techniques, this time performed on a Steinway grand piano, the core duo worked and cooperated with staples like Ingar Zach, Jenny Berger Myhre, Henrik Nørstebø and others to create a set of three recordings for the roughly 34 minutes spanning "Spektralmaskin II" which opens with extended waves of carefully arranged Ambient and Deep Listening Music, layered upon warm and comforting drone cycles perfectly complementing the compositions innate harmonics for an extended stretch of repetetion focused timelessness followed by spatial, dreamy and otherworldy Ambient structures, chiming and cascading sparks of positivity and thick panoramic strings layers leading into minimalist piano sequences - and probably water drops? Furthermore the duo, alongside its contributors, ventures deeper into somewhat maritime melancholia and solemn, inward-looking sadness, analogue vintage crackles reminiscent of both early Oval and - in parts - emerging Clicks'n'Cuts for the rest of the remaining playtime which makes this an unusually short but still core Sofa Music release for all collectors of slow moving Ambient harmonics and Deep Listening Music in general. We're in for this.

Album artwork on Instagram!