Strings and Clusters

Polar Seas is delighted to welcome Mikael Lind to the label with his new album Strings and Clusters. Beautiful string arrangements are presented in their natural state, electronically manipulated or distorted and saturated with gorgeous results. After releasing works on Morr Music and Time Released Sound, this is Mikael’s most experimental work to date. recorded by Mikael Lind mixed by Paul Evans mastered by Paul Corley additional production and creative mixing by Alex Somers From Mikael: "Strings and Clusters was initially composed in Nodal, where you can very easily write polyrythmic music. I wrote lots of phrases for violin, viola, and cello, and had them recorded in such a way that they became building blocks for something larger. The next step was to put these phrases together in an interesting or pleasing way, and I worked intensely for a couple of months trying to find which phrases suited best in their naked form, and which I should transform through sound design techniques. 80% of what you hear on the album are from these original string recordings, but there's always a dialogue going on between the ambient string clusters and the naked strings" psr-038