Album Review/Instrumental : Carl Liungman’s ‘Change’

Carl Liungman is a master composer, someone who is able to perceive and carve out the profound in the simple. The artist has a contemplative essence, one that leads him down such beautiful paths of emotion. His latest release is the ‘Change’ album, a collection that rains on you, sprinkling you with insight and profound sentiments. It drenches you silently and quietly like an autumn drizzle. There’s a freshness but also a melancholy. It engages with the sacred spaces shared within a family capsule, detailing relationships, memories, nostalgia, and the vivid frames of life forged by them. 

The album opens with ‘Mother’, an oozing and intimate composition that slowly warms the heart. It feels innate, like a part of you much like a mother is. There are moments of softness, an aching tenderness, which then runs into fresh rippling bursts of sound. The next two tracks tell the story of absence, absence of the encircling warmth that was introduced in the first track. In ‘After’, there’s melancholy forming between the dots of melody flung far and wide apart. There are nostalgic quotients, a space for stillness. ‘Final Days’ has a solemn weight to it. Deep tonal, resonant piano melodies run along, creating a portrait of grief. Yet there is acceptance. 

‘Hope’ is mellow and magnifying. The keys are surrounded by halos of resonance that pass on the light from one to the next. And just floating with these orbs makes it feel like you’re walking down a lantern-lit alley in the night. ‘Wind in June’, the coming of spring, is marked by blooming melodies. The feeling of a fresh start, of beginnings and hope colors the mind. It is so positive and full of promise. 

‘Father’ is a more leveled composition, a measured expression that is full of wisdom and rapture. Strung with singular melodies, it fills up the space around you like a hug. ‘Peaceful’ has a similar allure with its serene horizon of piano line. In ‘Survivor’, the theme is marked with its evolving character, one that is always rolling to the next frame, exalting in its progression and emphatic in tone. The title track concludes the collection. It shimmers with an overcoming light, pulling you to contemplate the inevitability of the theme, the beauty and the necessity. Listen Now! 

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