Ambient Online Vol 4

The compilation Ambient Online Vol 4 is finally available on Bandcamp!

http://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-4

With over 11 hours (!) of new ambient music of all genres it's an amazing collection. Some of the most interesting contemporary ambient artists have come together to realize this huge project. My own contribution is called Unconditional and is a collaboration with Wolves and Horses from Belgium. I hope you enjoy it. We are very proud that the album reached Bandcamp top 3 in ambient when it was released.

Ambient Online is a community for ambient musicians and producers started by S1gns of L1fe a few years ago. Not only a place for vibrant discussions, it also releases compilation albums and hosts a podcast. Link: www.ambientonline.org

New Album: The Lightest Touch

I'm very happy to announce that my third album is out now!

With sparse soundscapes and beautiful melodies it goes searching for the stillness within us. This is ambient music for daydreamers, with lightly treading pianos, occasional whispering strings mixed with the noises of the world.

"An incredibly beautiful and very tasty slice of ambient pie from one of my favourite Swedish composers, Ingemar Holmlid (aka Imi Fal)." Myristica (Mei-Ling Grey), musician, UK

"Outstanding. A real pearl." Moisés Daniel, Mangalyan Records, France

"This reflective and melancholic piece is one of the true beauties to be encountered on Soundcloud. Deserves to be in a guilded frame. Simple yet so enriching as it reaches out to an inner place. Lovely." Neil William Holland, writer, UK

Released on Record Union and available now on Bandcamp and Spotify, with iTunes and Amazon to follow soon.


Bandcamp: www.imifal.bandcamp.com

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3Z5IKQ7y6iTxnv914MMzh5

Elskavon - Laekkandi

Here is a recent favorite of mine, Elskavon from Minneapolis. With his beautiful and melodious ambient music, he takes me places I have never been to before. Highly recommended!

https://elskavon.bandcamp.com/album/movements-in-season

You can also see his photographs at:

http://anthemfallsmusic.com/gallery/

In The Valley Of Fallen Giants

One of my favorite places here in my hometown Göteborg is the valley called White Anemone Valley (freely translated from Swedish "vitsippsdalen") right next to our botanical garden. Except that it's a very beautiful place, for ecological reasons they leave dead old trees standing, eventually falling over by themselves. With 40 meter trees lying on the ground, you realize what giants they are, and with a few of them together, it creates a very special atmosphere.

Review on Meadow Music

There is a review of a couple of my tracks over at Meadow Music, a blog about Swedish music: http://meadowmusic.se/en/2014/10/imi-fal-hymn-for-the-waitingsonder/

On the two last [songs] “Hymn for the Waiting” and “Sonder” he has developed his soundscapes further; it feels more vivid and richer in images, beautiful like sparkling morning dew in the light of early dawn.

Drizzle & Sand (Ambient Online Vol. 3)

The third volume of Ambient Online Compilation is now available for download on Bandcamp! A massive world-spanning collection of truly beautiful and diverse ambient music from some of the most interesting ambient artists today, including Ascendant and Massergy.

My own contribution is this previously unreleased track called Drizzle & Sand, a slow piano-based piece moving through a coastal landscape of early autumn, daydreaming of a lost summer.

Order here: https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-online-compilation-volume-3

Album cover art by Imi Fal.

Volume 2 was Bandcamp's top-selling ambient album for some time, and I believe this volume will be even better!

Ambient Online is an online community for makers and producers of ambient music, started by S1gns of L1fe (Ascendant). It's a place for exchange of ideas, collaboration, critique and, perhaps most importantly, a positive and constructive environment for creative workers.

Link: http://www.ambientonline.org

Imi Fal - Under A Darkening Sky

With the evenings getting a little darker and cooler, this is a slow waltz to dance to under the stars… And perhaps for moments of internal darkness too.

Hymn for the Waiting

We wait. We stand under a tree, waiting for the rain to stop. We wait for a letter from the doctor, to tell us if we will be fine. We wait for the phone call, to comfort us that our friend is found again. We wait for love, we wait for death. We wait for a glimpse of ourselves, when everything just falls into place. This is a song to all those moments, when we must try to find security in the passing Now, despite the uncertainty of times to come.

This is a PayWhatYouWant download at Bandcamp: www.imifal.bandcamp.com

New Song: Fingertips

This is a slightly nostalgic piece, remembering all the letters I used to write, sitting in cafés, with my favorite old reservoir pen… I hope you enjoy!

New Song: One Wing

The swedish actor and writer Kent Andersson died a few years ago. I live and work across the street from his home theatre, Aftonstjärnan (The Evening Star) in Göteborg. Many of us go through difficulties in life, making us feel curtailed or diminished. For several years this poem by Kent Andersson have given me new insights on these feelings.

The Wing 

We all walk around with just one wing
that we can not fly with
which becomes a burden to us
that we have to conceal.
We probably would have been able to fly
if not all self-appointed superintendents,
masters of school
and all of the practical, tactical,
zealous, critical,
anemeic, academic
wrong-finders with a lecturing tone
had said:
you surely can not fly!
Stay on the ground, you one-winged bastard!
And if you even dream of daring
with a single wing beat
to test your ability to fly
we will take your wing some day!
We all go around with just one wing,
a dream, a longing, a song.
What if our wings were to
fly together again!

Today I listen to...

Amazing norwegian trumpet player Arve Henriksen, from his solo album Places of Worship released last year. It seems he is living here in my home town Göteborg at the moment!

New Song: First of the Last

New song: The Lightest Touch

Frozen

Frozen from Alf Pilz on Vimeo.

Music by Ed Haydon, vocals by Andrea Krux.

Today I listen to...

... another favorite from Soundcloud, Fabrizio Paterlini.

New Free Download: Sonder

I found this amazing new word on the blog The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig:

sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Read about more new words you didn't know that you needed on www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com. And a big thank you to John Koenig for kindly letting me use Sonder.

This is a free (PayWhatYouWant) download on Bandcamp: www.imifal.bandcamp.com

Petroglyph Music: Christmas Album

For the second year in a row Petroglyph Music has released a christmas album, and this time I am one of the contributors. A whopping 156 tracks of ambient music will be a fine way to start the new year! And please check out their other releases too - they have some very fine ambient music there.

"Petroglyph Music is a new Norwegian netlabel (2012) created by Rune Martinsen and Øystein Jørgensen, focusing on Ambient/Experimental music and the subgenres/fusion genres of Ambient Music".

http://petroglyphmusic.com

Signed to Record Union!

A few weeks ago I was signed by A&R Pär Berglund to Record Union! Good news, as my upcoming album now will be available with several online distributors: Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp and Wimp. Record Union is not a regular record company, but more of a greenhouse for talented artists, helping out with distribution and marketing.

I will also release the album as a limited edition cd early next year. I will post more details in the upcoming weeks!

Notes From a Daydream

Winter Stream (Free Download)

Here is a report directly from a winter stream winding through a leafless forest, shifting in grays and browns. I hope you enjoy!This track will appear on my next album 'The Man Who Sat Down' that will be released this winter, collecting some of the songs I have written the last few months.
This is a name-your-price download with a minimum price of 0 US Dollars.