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The Fall 04:18
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Black Snow 03:07
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Collapse 03:12
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Memoir 03:59
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Last Breath 04:28
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Estranged 03:38
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Fredrik Klingwall & Julia Black have together with an ensemble of highly creative musicians forged the explosive emotional album SENTIENCE. Blending pop, rock and even jazzy sensibilities over dreamy cinematic surroundings. Julia’s versatile vocals performed in several languages becomes a thrilling focal-point through which the music delivers an enigmatic blend of classical and experimental compositions.

The achievement of SENTIENCE resides a lot in its assembling. It was not bringing orphan musical ideas together that took several years to complete. It was the process of perfecting them. Two artists working online to envision a destination where the voice and compositions dance and breathe together. Reacting to each unexpected turn a new layer or musical motif could provide became an integral part of the process. Employing organic lively old instruments where each note brings an unexpected distinctiveness just as much as an inspired musical performance, or the happy accidents of exploratory sound processing. They all endeavor to become part of the whole.

Lyrically each of the ten songs lives within its own ruminations, where the words are purposely written in several languages to express its emotional narrative on different levels of sensibility and exposition. The final piece ‘At the Precipice’ plays an important role to shape a circular conclusion containing spoken words from all songs. And in so doing becoming the culmination which exposes the quintessence of a beautiful yet doom-laden and inevitable circumstance.

Just like Sentience means the feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought, this album represents something abstract and natural. With a warmth and peculiar charm its mysterious and alluring themes are slowly revealed, and in the end, impossible to escape.

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released February 22, 2019

Julia Black - Vocals
Fredrik Klingwall - Synthesizers, Mellotron, Acoustic and Electric Pianos, Hammond Organ, Church Organ, Celeste
Gustaf Hielm - Bass, Baryton Guitar
Mattias Olsson - Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone
Hanna Ekström - Violin, Viola
Anna Dager - Cello

Music by Fredrik Klingwall
Lyrics & vocal arrangements by Julia Black
Additional drum & percussion arrangements by Mattias Olsson
String arrangements by Hanna Ekström and Anna Dager of Stockholm Strings.

Produced by Fredrik Klingwall
Mixed by David Castillo at Ghost Ward
Mastered by Thomas "Plec" Johansson at The Panic Room

Recorded at
Roth-Händle, Ghost Ward, Uninvited Studio

Artwork and Layout by Costin Chioreanu

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