Evening, window by miska lamberg
EVENING, WINDOW is the debut full-length album by Helsinki-based sound artist and ambient composer miska lamberg. Working with intricate field recordings that gather the overlooked moments of daily life—rainfall, distant traffic, animal calls—lamberg threads these textures into compositions that ache with personal memory. On EVENING, WINDOW, the familiar becomes spectral: fragments of sound blur into melody and mood, capturing the stark melancholy of Nordic winters and the soft violence of remembering.
lamberg invited Tomás Gauna to contribute thoughts on EVENING, WINDOW:
Throughout the years, Helsinki-based sound artist and ambient musician miska lamberg has compiled audio recordings of their daily life, collaging them as key parts of their compositions on their musical work. Those recordings are the first things you hear on “Half-memories absorb us”, the opening track from EVENING, WINDOW, their debut album on Dragon's Eye Recordings.
Rainfall and animal noises overlapped with sounds of modern transportation, “modern” life bleeding onto nature (or vice-versa), combined with ethereal melodic elements that get progressively fractured, these elements seamlessly melt onto one another to the point where they're virtually indistinguishable.
Much of EVENING, WINDOW has a lot of sonic characteristics pertaining to ambient music. Rather than focusing exclusively inducing calm and relaxation however, the sentiment that permeates through every track on the project is that of a pronounced melancholy, almost mimicking the relentless intensity and inherent darkness of winters in Finland – and lamberg's usage of field recordings contribute in great part to how such emotions are conveyed.
From more intense moments like the haunting "The strings that hold now to then, snapped", to the hypnotizing album closer "A gradual decline", EVENING, WINDOW evokes and pulls from the hauntological ethos developed by a number of artists who have helped shape contemporary ambient and electronic music, but recontextualized onto their own environment and context. They feel like memories from a past that might initially seem distant, yet there's parts of them that remain etched onto your brain.
Tracklist
Credits
I want to share my gratitude towards a few special persons to whom I'll forever be grateful for helping me to actualize this project, my debut album: Iida Nikander, Mikko Ojanen, Roosa Saarni, Sanni Laine, Tomás Gauna, Vesi & Yann Novak.
Mastered by Mikko Ojanen at Kruununhaka Underground.
Cover photo by Sanni Laine.
Text by Tomás Gauna.
Published by Dragon’s Eye Recordings.
