Label: Discreet Music

コペンハーゲンを拠点に活動し多くの変名にて作品を制作、その殆どを一般流通のない極小のプライベート作としてリリースしてきたFranciskaことJonas Torstensson。スウェーデンの人気レーベルDiscreet Musicより遂に1st LPをリリース!!全て部屋鳴り感が強いスケッチ風の録音素材で統一されており、Aサイドでは学校のクラシックの授業中に録音したリハーサル演奏や物音、テープレコーダーのヒスを中心に組み立て、Bサイドではより多くの電子音やらフィールドレコーディングを使い歪なサウンドスケープを提示。このレーベルらしいルーズなテープ操作とメランコリーさが最高な一枚。





Tryghed is the debut album from Franciska, the alias of the now Copenhagen-based artist Jonas Torstensson. As one of the key figures in the young, vivid scene around the Forlaget Kornmod imprint, Jonas has released a good deal of music under different names during the last few years, often in very limited cassette editions with barely no distribution. In many ways, Franciska pretty much captures the very essence of the sound world their label now is associated with: melancholic and rather loose tape compositions made with a hands-on approach, usually performed on organ, piano, synthesizers and acoustic instruments and often room recorded with environmental sounds leaking in. Truly DIY ambient music, closely connected in spirit with some of the more melodic Förlag För Fri Musik moments, Astrid Øster Mortensen etc. With crude stop/rec editing, sizzling magnetism and tape scuffs left intact, the A-side consists mainly of piano recordings made while on break from classical music rehearsals in school, while the B-side incorporates more electronics and field recordings though still having the piano as the focal point. Wintery minimalism at its very best. Cover image by Alba Liv. Mastered by Joakim Karlsson. Edition of 750 copies.