Matti Bye - Faro CD/LP (Rotor Records)
Release date: March 15

The music has all the hallmarks of a classic Matti Bye score – the minimalist, soaring piano melodies, played with a touch that’s almost painfully light; the mystical, airy strings that seems to appear out of nowhere, hinting of things unknown – yet there’s a faint streak of the ethereal beauty of many 1960s film scores, with harpsichord and electric bass piano weaving figures that are Baroque and Pop at the same time.

01. THE GIRL IN THE TREE

02. THOUGHTS

03. INTO THE WOODS

04. A NEW HOME

05. THE DIARY

06. THE LADY IN THE HOUSE

07. MORNING DEW

08. BELOW THE SURFACE

09. THE EXPEDITION

10. MEMORIES

 

Matti Bye – Grand piano with electronic devices

Celesta, Glockenspiel and vibraphonette

Leo Svensson – Cello and Musical Saw

Malin My Nilsson – Violin

Jonna Inge – Viola

Johanna Dahl – Cello

Gustav Rådström – Clarinet

Recorded and mixed by Kristian Holmgren
Mastered by Jaakko Viitalähde at Virtalähde Mastering
Recorded 2012 at Beckholmen in Stockholm
Artwork by John Henriksson

FARO

The film Faro was directed by Fredrik Edfelt and produced by 
Bob Film/Anna Croneman

Music composed by Matti Bye and arranged by the ensemble. 
© + ℗ Matti Bye Music.

Matti Bye (Born 1966) is widely considered as one of Sweden's most important composers of film scores and an extraordinary performer with his own, incomparable style of improvisation on the piano. He is also widely recognized for having written a series of innovative scores for such early Swedish silent film classics as Phantom Carriage by Victor Sjöström, Häxan by Benjamin Christensen, and Gösta Berling Saga by Mauritz Stiller, now included on a 6 DVD box set released by Svensk Filmindustri, SF, as well as countless other silent films. Last year he wrote the score for Academy Award nominee Jan Troell's latest feature Everlasting Moments and Stig Björkmans "Scenes from a playhouse" – a documentary about Ingmar Bergman.
Matti Bye's work is also concerned with the tension, which exists between moving image, sound and music. He has recently engaged with collaborative projects involving an esthetic and performative language proper to the contemporary visual arts. Beyond the medium, his work takes the viewer on a unique and lyrical journey of the world of dreams and illusions through a multi-sensorial experience of storytelling.


Music for film:

• 2013 – Faro (Fredrik Edfelt)
• 2011 – Snigeln (short, Jan Troell)
• 2011 – Bibliotekstjuven (TV series)
• 2010 – Filmen var min älskarinna "…But Film is My Mistress" (documentary about Ingmar Bergman)
  
• 2010 – Sebbe (Babak Najafi)
  
• 2009 – Bilder från lekstugan "Images from The Playground" (documentary about Ingmar Bergman)
  
• 2009 – Elkland (short)
  
• 2008 – Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick "Everlasting Moments" (Jan Troell)
  
• 2008 – Mellan oss (short)
  
• 2007 – Fritt fall (short)
  
• 2006 – En uppstoppad hund (TV movie)
  
• 2006 – Quinze (short)
  
• 2006 – Brevbärarens hemlighet (short)
  
• 2005 – Krama mig "Love and Happiness" (Kristina Humle)
  
• 2005 – En god dag "A Good Day" (short)
  
• 1999 – Vuxna människor (Felix Henrgren)
  
• 1998 – Homo Sapiens 1900 (documentary by Peter Cohen)
  
• 1995 – Sista skriket "The Last Gasp" (TV play by Ingmar Bergman)
  
• 1924 – Gösta Berling Saga "The Saga of Gosta Berling" (Mauritz Stiller)
  
• 1922 – Häxan "Witchcraft through ages" (restored version: 2006)
  
• 1921 – Körkarlen "Phantom Carriage" (Victor Sjöström)
  
• 1920 – Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller)
  
• 1919 – Herr Arnes Pengar "Sir Arnes´s Treasures" (Mauritz Stiller)
  
• 1916 – Dödskyssen (short) (restored version: 2002)

Discography:

• 2013 – Matti Bye: Faro (Rotor)
• 2011 – Matti Bye, Mattias Olsson & Martina Hoogland Ivanow: Elephant & Castle (Kning Disk)
• 2009 – Drömt (Rotor)
• 2008 – Gösta Berlings Saga (Rotor)
• 2003 – Körlkarlen (Rotor)