There are so many ways that musicians can currently cooperate, without necessarily having to be physically together in the same studio, room, basement or whatever, and we got a clear example here with Developments, the album that is, well, developed by Six Missing & Patrik Berg Almkvisth.
Behind the Six Missing moniker is Austin, Texas-based ambient composer and sound designer TJ Dumser, while Almkvisth is a musician/pianist and actor from Stockholm. To create this seven-part set of ambient movements, Almkvisth kept sending improvised solo piano pieces in their raw form to Dumser. Then, as their PR notes, Six Missing then expanded each one into a fully realised scene, cycling them through tape machines, routing them into modular systems, and…
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What if the trip to Everest were not about the summit? Two springs ago, composer Patrik Berg Almkvisth journeyed through Nepal to the famed mountain, stopping at base camp. The journey was not what he expected; it began with a local funeral and ended with the sight of the sun rising over Everest. In the middle arrive intervals of wonder and joy, but also anger and disappointment. Despite the efforts of locals over time, trash litters the vast trail, a travesty transformed into sculpture by Leslie Leong, shown on the cover. Bodies remain unrecovered. Once-proud glaciers have receded. Might there still be room for revelation?
The album begins with field recordings of Kathmandu, the cheer and chimes of local streets melting into contemplative strings and…