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Hazy beautiful and dreamy, moody, under-the-skin, and soundtracky.
"Matti Bye har gjort ett av årets mest originella och vackraste album"
// Jan Gradvall, Dagens Industri
Out now on Rotor
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'drömt', swedish for 'dreamt', is music lingering in the borderlands between dream, childhood, and departure. the music is desperate, dream-like, majestic, calling forth different states of mind
the red painted cheeks of the composer as a seven year old child on the cover of the album is a key to a world that seems oddly disconcerting seen peering through stained glass at a world of make-believe, a dressed up, theatrical, artificial past
this music was was conceived during a dark patch, a time of change, of leave-taking, and born at the moment when silence and inwardness give way to expression, flashes of light, and shouts
at times rough, heroic and exultant, for example in the track 'uppbrott' (’departure’), at others romantic, misty, and unreal, like in ’sömngångare’ (’sleepwalkers’)
featuring guest spots from musicans like nicolai dunger, goran kajfes, johan berthling (tape, häpna), laura naukkarinen (lau nau, maailma), leo svensson & elle-kari larsson (the tiny), and mikael marin (väsen)
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A new record is out on vinyl with my group Maailma.
Titta på en intervju som Sofia Nyblom gjort för Axess TV. Leif Furhammar skriver om den i DN.
At the moment I'm finishing the music for Jan Troell's new movie, Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick), which opens on September 5th, 2008.
One article and one interview (in Swedish, though) from Dagens nyheter, regarding the silent film DVD box set.
The music for Gösta Berlings saga will be released on CD this autumn on the Rotor label.
Onda sagor är en föreställning med mörka berättelser av Pär Lagerkvist, lästa av Sara Lindh och med musik av och med Matti Bye och Kristian Holmgren. Premiär på Uppsala Stadsteater den 30 november.
A new record is out with my folk-psych group Vinter on the Tjärnen label.
On September 6 there will be a screening of Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc at the Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestival with music by me, Kristian Holmgren, and Laura Naukkarinen.
And in the autumn of 2007 there will be a six-disc DVD box with music by me and my friends for Terje Vigen, The Phantom Carriage, Sir Arne's Treasure, Gösta Berlings saga, Stiller's Erotikon, and Häxan/Witchcraft through the ages.
Some more of my scores on DVD:
An adaptation of the play En uppstoppad hund that premiered on Swedish Television in October, 2006 is out on DVD.
The american DVDs of The Saga of Gösta Berling and Sir Arne's Treasure are out on Kino International.