There are a lot of talented artists out there with many talents, but how many do you know that also have a career playing double bass with the Swedish Royal Opera, Swedish Radio Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestras? His name is Bård Ericson, and the 26 year old Stockholm native aka boerd (pronounced bored) is the newest upcoming star on Anjunadeep with his first full six-track mini-album Static is set to be released on April 6th. Going on to explain the title Static, Bård says:
’Förgängligt’ is a Swedish word that best translates to ‘transient’. For me, the songs on ‘Static’ are about this feeling – about relationships that never happened, about the ones that did happen but faded away, about both hard times and nice moments in my life that I’ve almost forgotten. Sometimes it feels like I’m stuck in a static blur of memories. The sounds and melodies in ‘Static’ makes the memories come alive a little bit, and I hope other people will have the same feeling.
With the first track from the album “Blind” released three weeks ago, the above quote couldn’t be more true. Today’s second release “Fragment II” opens with a cinematic build along with a child talking about his family as orchestral pieces flutter far and wide as your drift off into another world. In his own words:
I love the recording of the little boy talking about his poor family and the conditions they live in. He sounds kind of optimistic in a way, even though what he’s talking about sounds pretty terrible. We all go through hard times and maybe this track is about coping with it and coming out at the other end.
Stream/download the track from all mediums here, along with pre-save/order the album Static here.
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