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Introducing: @blurstem !!
Blurstem is a piano, ambient, experimental based alias by @chris_bartels
Blurstem’s album Fallen Fragments is out this Thursday, and we’re having a Bandcamp listening party for it tomorrow!
Head over to the link in our bios to pre-save, and rsvp to the listening party! Hope to see everyone there!

Forgotten Fragments by @blurstem is now out!!
Do yourself a favour and listen to this one front to back.. the tracks weave seamlessly between each other, and end up feeling like a 25 min long track. It’s truly beautiful!
Link is in our bios!
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“I first started Blurstem as a side project to Elskavon - simply as a late-night piano improvisational outlet for myself. My wife and I had bought our first house, had our first child, and in that beautiful whirlwind time of life, I found solace in late nights on a quiet, felted piano. That’s where my first album, Among the Oaks, came from. Eight years later, I rediscovered lost improvisational recordings from those sessions that I thought were lost. It was like listening to something distant, and yet, so close, so familiar. The sound, the improvisations, brought me right back to being a new parent, and yet also felt like I could have written them yesterday.

Instead of simply releasing them as is - since, it seemed to me they were not meant to be simply as they were - I decided to take some of my favorite moments and use that as a canvas to create something new - a journey from the fragments.

Fallen Fragments is the result.” - Blurstem

Forgotten Fragments by @blurstem is now out!!
Do yourself a favour and listen to this one front to back.. the tracks weave seamlessly between each other, and end up feeling like a 25 min long track. It’s truly beautiful!
Link is in our bios!
———

“I first started Blurstem as a side project to Elskavon - simply as a late-night piano improvisational outlet for myself. My wife and I had bought our first house, had our first child, and in that beautiful whirlwind time of life, I found solace in late nights on a quiet, felted piano. That’s where my first album, Among the Oaks, came from. Eight years later, I rediscovered lost improvisational recordings from those sessions that I thought were lost. It was like listening to something distant, and yet, so close, so familiar. The sound, the improvisations, brought me right back to being a new parent, and yet also felt like I could have written them yesterday.

Instead of simply releasing them as is - since, it seemed to me they were not meant to be simply as they were - I decided to take some of my favorite moments and use that as a canvas to create something new - a journey from the fragments.

Fallen Fragments is the result.” - Blurstem

Forgotten Fragments by @blurstem is now out!!
Do yourself a favour and listen to this one front to back.. the tracks weave seamlessly between each other, and end up feeling like a 25 min long track. It’s truly beautiful!
Link is in our bios!
———

“I first started Blurstem as a side project to Elskavon - simply as a late-night piano improvisational outlet for myself. My wife and I had bought our first house, had our first child, and in that beautiful whirlwind time of life, I found solace in late nights on a quiet, felted piano. That’s where my first album, Among the Oaks, came from. Eight years later, I rediscovered lost improvisational recordings from those sessions that I thought were lost. It was like listening to something distant, and yet, so close, so familiar. The sound, the improvisations, brought me right back to being a new parent, and yet also felt like I could have written them yesterday.

Instead of simply releasing them as is - since, it seemed to me they were not meant to be simply as they were - I decided to take some of my favorite moments and use that as a canvas to create something new - a journey from the fragments.

Fallen Fragments is the result.” - Blurstem

Forgotten Fragments by @blurstem is now out!!
Do yourself a favour and listen to this one front to back.. the tracks weave seamlessly between each other, and end up feeling like a 25 min long track. It’s truly beautiful!
Link is in our bios!
———

“I first started Blurstem as a side project to Elskavon - simply as a late-night piano improvisational outlet for myself. My wife and I had bought our first house, had our first child, and in that beautiful whirlwind time of life, I found solace in late nights on a quiet, felted piano. That’s where my first album, Among the Oaks, came from. Eight years later, I rediscovered lost improvisational recordings from those sessions that I thought were lost. It was like listening to something distant, and yet, so close, so familiar. The sound, the improvisations, brought me right back to being a new parent, and yet also felt like I could have written them yesterday.

Instead of simply releasing them as is - since, it seemed to me they were not meant to be simply as they were - I decided to take some of my favorite moments and use that as a canvas to create something new - a journey from the fragments.

Fallen Fragments is the result.” - Blurstem

Forgotten Fragments by @blurstem is now out!!
Do yourself a favour and listen to this one front to back.. the tracks weave seamlessly between each other, and end up feeling like a 25 min long track. It’s truly beautiful!
Link is in our bios!
———

“I first started Blurstem as a side project to Elskavon - simply as a late-night piano improvisational outlet for myself. My wife and I had bought our first house, had our first child, and in that beautiful whirlwind time of life, I found solace in late nights on a quiet, felted piano. That’s where my first album, Among the Oaks, came from. Eight years later, I rediscovered lost improvisational recordings from those sessions that I thought were lost. It was like listening to something distant, and yet, so close, so familiar. The sound, the improvisations, brought me right back to being a new parent, and yet also felt like I could have written them yesterday.

Instead of simply releasing them as is - since, it seemed to me they were not meant to be simply as they were - I decided to take some of my favorite moments and use that as a canvas to create something new - a journey from the fragments.

Fallen Fragments is the result.” - Blurstem

Happy to announce a new @blurstem album (Ocelli) coming out this summer with @westernvinyl. 1st single here, “Frábært Vatn.”

#ambient #ambientmusic #neoclassical #modernclassical #instrumental

Out today is @blurstem ‘s newest single ‘borroso’
This one is such a beautiful solo piano piece. Definitely check it out wherever you listen to music✌️

Out today is @blurstem ‘s newest single ‘borroso’
This one is such a beautiful solo piano piece. Definitely check it out wherever you listen to music✌️

Out today is @blurstem ‘s newest single ‘borroso’
This one is such a beautiful solo piano piece. Definitely check it out wherever you listen to music✌️

Out today is @blurstem ‘s newest single ‘borroso’
This one is such a beautiful solo piano piece. Definitely check it out wherever you listen to music✌️

Out today is @blurstem ‘s newest single ‘borroso’
This one is such a beautiful solo piano piece. Definitely check it out wherever you listen to music✌️

@blurstem ‘s next single is out tomorrow, so we thought you might like to get to know him a bit more!
This is part 2 of his introduction series.

“That eight-year gap is crucial to the textured sound of the album. ‘Leftover Notes’ opens the album with reversed piano plinks, and hyper-sensitive piano guts that creak and squeak with innate intimacy. Hues of melodies are inferred, but the lasting memory comes from a cloudy reverb that leaves traces of notes long after the mallet hit.” -Higher Plain

“That eight-year gap is crucial to the textured sound of the album. ‘Leftover Notes’ opens the album with reversed piano plinks, and hyper-sensitive piano guts that creak and squeak with innate intimacy. Hues of melodies are inferred, but the lasting memory comes from a cloudy reverb that leaves traces of notes long after the mallet hit.” -Higher Plain

“That eight-year gap is crucial to the textured sound of the album. ‘Leftover Notes’ opens the album with reversed piano plinks, and hyper-sensitive piano guts that creak and squeak with innate intimacy. Hues of melodies are inferred, but the lasting memory comes from a cloudy reverb that leaves traces of notes long after the mallet hit.” -Higher Plain

“That eight-year gap is crucial to the textured sound of the album. ‘Leftover Notes’ opens the album with reversed piano plinks, and hyper-sensitive piano guts that creak and squeak with innate intimacy. Hues of melodies are inferred, but the lasting memory comes from a cloudy reverb that leaves traces of notes long after the mallet hit.” -Higher Plain

“That eight-year gap is crucial to the textured sound of the album. ‘Leftover Notes’ opens the album with reversed piano plinks, and hyper-sensitive piano guts that creak and squeak with innate intimacy. Hues of melodies are inferred, but the lasting memory comes from a cloudy reverb that leaves traces of notes long after the mallet hit.” -Higher Plain

Embracing the artifacts - here’s a quick glimpse of the full album walkthrough of Fallen Fragments (full video on my @elskavon YT channel). Bringing it all full circle to where the album started.

#logicpro #musicproducer #ambientmusic #neoclassical

@blurstem working his magic on the track ‘Warm Nights’ off his new album Fallen Fragments which is OUT TOMORROW!!
Be sure to head to our bios to presave!

@blurstem ‘s new album is out on March 25! Be sure to come enjoy a nice listening party over on @bandcamp at noon EST!
Blurstem will be there answering questions and giving insights to the album, be sure not to miss it!
RSVP is in our bios!

The latest from the upcoming @blurstem album is here - Leftover Notes/Eight Years

“The album takes simple, emotive piano sketches and expands them into something more: bathed in analog tape loops, painted with reverb-soaked layers, warped in time experiments, reversed, pitched, chopped, and repeated. Much like the younger version of Bartels who first recorded these ideas remains intrinsically connected to the artist he is today, the songs themselves are woven together—bleeding from one into the next, fragmentary yet whole.”

The latest from the upcoming @blurstem album is here - Leftover Notes/Eight Years

“The album takes simple, emotive piano sketches and expands them into something more: bathed in analog tape loops, painted with reverb-soaked layers, warped in time experiments, reversed, pitched, chopped, and repeated. Much like the younger version of Bartels who first recorded these ideas remains intrinsically connected to the artist he is today, the songs themselves are woven together—bleeding from one into the next, fragmentary yet whole.”

The latest from the upcoming @blurstem album is here - Leftover Notes/Eight Years

“The album takes simple, emotive piano sketches and expands them into something more: bathed in analog tape loops, painted with reverb-soaked layers, warped in time experiments, reversed, pitched, chopped, and repeated. Much like the younger version of Bartels who first recorded these ideas remains intrinsically connected to the artist he is today, the songs themselves are woven together—bleeding from one into the next, fragmentary yet whole.”

The latest from the upcoming @blurstem album is here - Leftover Notes/Eight Years

“The album takes simple, emotive piano sketches and expands them into something more: bathed in analog tape loops, painted with reverb-soaked layers, warped in time experiments, reversed, pitched, chopped, and repeated. Much like the younger version of Bartels who first recorded these ideas remains intrinsically connected to the artist he is today, the songs themselves are woven together—bleeding from one into the next, fragmentary yet whole.”

Second visualizer from the upcoming Blurstem album Fallen Fragments now on YouTube - “What You May Find”

#ambient #modernclasaical #ambientmusic

‘Warm Nights’ visualizer clip. This song will be a part of upcoming @blurstem album Fallen Fragments, on @wespeakinpoems.