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.

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!

New Song: First of the Last

New song: The Lightest Touch

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

Blessed are those...

I came across this quote and couldn't resist sharing it:

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

Paulo Coelho