Each album by Swedish composer Sven Wunder masterfully opens a door into a different sonic mise-en-scene, from the East-meets-West psychedelia of Eastern Flowers, to the painterly restraint of Wabi Sabi or the midnight-jazz hush of Late Again. Daybreak could be his most radiant yet: a slow-blooming, analog-toned instrumental voyage that charts the emotional arc of a single day from pre-dawn shimmer to golden hour contemplation. Throughout, recurring musical themes appear in multiple instrumental, rhythmic and textural guises, almost like sunlight refracted through the waters of Lake Vänern.
As ever, Wunder draws from a global palette of woodwinds, strings, hand drums, fingerpicked acoustic guitar and brass, and arranges…
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