BLUE LAKE - Stikling LP Metal “Nightmare Town”s melancholic

“Nightmare Town”s melancholic

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While past reissues of Hawaiian music from this era have focused on “hot” and up-tempo material

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BLUE LAKE - Stikling LP Metal “Nightmare Town”s melancholicThis record began in summer 2020, when I was staying at Andersabo, Sweden, where I run an artists' residency. I had access to a nearby church, and would set drones going on the organ while playing clarinet and piano. I started working with the combination of these long, sustained tones, combined with acoustic instruments, where the sound's duration was only as long as a breath or the pluck of a string. A lot of the last Blue Lake LP was made using a