Recently, two weeks ago, we released Stefan Larsson’s beautiful and atmospheric pop gem ”Se dig aldrig om” (Never look back). Now comes single number two, ”The Silence in the Lake”. If the first one was pure pop, this one is more alternative in its structure. A bit dark, almost like a waltz from Tom Waits.
All in all together we’ll release four new songs, two in Swedish and two in English. They are recorded in Studio Folkhemmet in Unnaryd, in the Swedish countryside. All embedded in producer Petter Eriksson’s soundscapes, where musical foundations and singer-songwriter arrangements are coloured by guitars, marimba, bass and piano in a vocal interplay between Stefan and Lisa Lotta Carlsson.
Change
First up was the mildly pulsating “Se dig aldrig om” [Never look back], which with infectious guitar loops tells about change and being able to move on. Second one is this ”The Silence in the Lake”.
To which Stefan wants to convey these words:
– I was out rowing with my sons on a pitch-black lake in Unnaryd, where the forests meet the lakes in the Swedish countryside. The colors, the silence interrupted by the crowing birds reminded me of how all encompassing such an environment can be. Here, it is about the relationship with the children. My youngest son had been born a few years earlier in the hands of a midwife just above the tarmac outside the gates of the delivery room. With my own pulse screaming in my head — we didn’t quite make it! — while a lone child’s frail cry broke through the cold winter morning, with lone flakes falling. There is nothing more beautiful than the moment you know that everything went well. At the same time, the text reminds of the responsibility one has to lift the child over the forests, the pitch-black lakes, so that the gaze extends beyond the place where one is. There is more, and they need to see it.