FIKTION
FIKTION (eng. FICTION) is an artistic and electroacoustic expression that was initiated, along with its sibling and side-project ONOMI, in 2006 by Gustaf Lundh, at the time settled in Gothenburg. The purpose and concept of FIKTION is to transform and twist sensory states into audio-visual art. This has been and still is a red thread throughout FIKTION's discography. Taking inspiration from our aesthetic past yet always in a contemporary form. Thus Lundh's body of work has become a sonically expressive language that constantly moves in a fictive borderland between partly our secular present and sacred past, partly perceived "reality" and dream.
Since the debute EP "Vardagspaus" (can only be found at soundcloud) a dozen albums have been released with videos, concerts, static art, and performance shows. Support this project by purchasing the music at bandcamp. https://burnthatgloom.bandcamp.com |
Cerulean (LP 2024)
Title: Cerulean Label: PLX Records Release date: January 13, 2024
Length: 33 min Track list: 1. Aperta I, II, III (10:52) 2. Dans för Två II (03:33) 3. The Scent of Kiev II (02:22) 4. Morbus (02:55) 5. Lacrima III (02:34) 6. Subjektiv II (06:04) 7. Spes (04:24) Credits: Composition, production and mix by Gustaf Lundh except specific interpretations: (1) A. Pärt, (4) J.S. Bach, (7) D. Buxtehude. Recording at EAP in Stockholm during Spring 2023. Master by Rashad Becker. Press text: With "Cerulean" (a color of the blue family), FIKTION aka. Gustaf Lundh, returns with 33 minutes of new sonic material consisting of seven instrumental, melodic, electroacoustic tracks - each packed with wistful organs, classic synthesizers and soothing noise. This is Lundh's first release in collaboration with the art collective, festival and record label PLX. Approximately 15 years ago, Lundh - at the time settled in Halland, Sweden, yet originally based in Gothenburg - released a single titled "Subjektiv", an excerpt from his second full-length album "Morfint", which came to be one of his most artistically significant tracks. Sensory states has been, and still is, a red thread throughout FIKTION's total discography. The mood and title of this track refers to just that - moments when we subjectively experience the various strange phenomena of existence, not seldom mysteries of biology, weather and light moving in the borderland between perceived reality and the surreal. The single from "Cerulean" is a reworked version of this particular track, logically titled "Subjektiv II", which also make up track six along with six other individual pieces, three of them which are reworkings of old previously released material by Fiktion but also the acoustic, narrated TUNGT VATTEN - an at the time sonic collaboration with swedish wood artist Markus Pettersson. Lastly, "Cerulean" consists of interpretations of selected works by composers that have strongly influenced Lundh's artistic path, all of them more or less primarily oriented in old, vocal and organ / cembalo-based, sacral music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Diederich Buxtehude et al. Nevertheless, Lundh's body of work has become a sonically expressive language that constantly moves in the borderland between partly our secular present and sacred past, partly perceived "reality" and dream. |
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Gdańsk, POL-PAL, نابلس (EP 2020)
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Track list:
1. Gdańsk 0-2.58 2. Michaní Anemou 3.00-3.58 3. Запах Києва 4.00-6.25 4. Boğaziçi Köprüsü 6.27-9.36 5. Michaní Eurus 9.36-10.58 6. نابلس 10.58-16.59 “Gdańsk, POL-PAL, نابلس” is a sonic imprint of a fictious journey, a musical collage of church organs, mechanical machines, trains, and field recordings from different regions across Europe and the Middle East, where different elements have been recorded, filtered, played back and re-recorded again. The year is 2035 and you are on some kind of transport vehicle — a hybrid of a traditional electric train, a mechanical machine and a church organ. Twelve years ago, the European Council signed a decision to fund this railway line between Gdańsk, Poland, and Nablus, Palestine, operated by Hedjaz Jordan Railways and Al Nayzak Organization For Supportive Education and Scientific Innovation. The railway passes through 15 countries and constitutes a musical, artistic, historic and anthropologic journey. There are multiple stops along the way, with treats of local cuisine, drinks and music, as well as initiated narration by dedicated guides. “I have always loved the authentic expression of different cultures and languages, whichever part of the world it may be. I equally love the church organ and the train. The organ as a mechanical and musical phenomenon with its machinery, pipes and additive synthesis, and the train as a source of sound and a cultural means of transport. The recordings in this work are mostly from Poland, Ukraine, Kosovo / Serbia, Greece, Turkey and Palestine / Israel. Boundaries between countries are a way for people to develop identities. They create community and bind people together in language, culture and art. At the same time, this process also leads to simplifications and a diminishment of nuances and tolerance. This is why I think education and contacts across boundaries are vital for a constructive society to mature. These three aspects — the sonic, the sociological and the mechanical — form the basis of this album and this piece of sonic art.” |
Illuc (EP/LP 2016)
Track list:
1.Kyrie (A. Pärt) 03:10 2.Lookin' Thru The Eye Of The Past II 03:18 3.Mille Regretz (J.d. Prez) 03:39 4.Kernel II 04:28 5.Lacrima/Vind II 03:32 6.Agnus Dei (A. Pärt) 06:36 NOT AVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT Illuc means to that place, there, thither and is a sacral fairytale in six parts. Lyrics is in swedish, french and latin. The album is almost complete acoustic with just electric guitar and voices with some small amount of effects. It is a naked, uncompromised existential album about attachment, the human being and its roots as a relational social creature and the affect attachment has on her. Two of the tracks is interpretations of estonian composer Arvo Pärt, first and last part of his mass Missa Syllabica. Track three is an interpretation of renaissance composer Josquin des Prez, "Mille Regretz". The rest is new versions of old Fiktion material, reworked and "renuded" |
Forma (EP 2015)
Burn That Gloom (LP 2012)
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Tracklist:
1.Wooble Trust 04:22 2.Cempasuchils 02:58 3.Jogelen 02:23 4.Röd lukt 02:36 5.Old man gloom 04:18 6.The puppet show 02:26 7.It shone, pale as bone (Lars Demian) 01:46 8.Stadigt svänger sig livets andning 02:22 9.Lacrima 02:17 10.Alania (Paavoharju) 02:15 11.Ostrosc 02:54 12.9-X-X-3-7-8-3-2-7 06:22 13.Tyst liv, ingen död 02:26 Burn That Gloom is the fourth album from my music project Fiktion, and my first full-length release on Jämmerdosa. It is a tale inspired by seemingly gloomy, but truly life-affirming ceremonies such as the burning of Zozobra and the Day of the Dead. Musically, it is a mix of dim, slow jazz, slavic folklore, organs and dub – all in a comfortably obscure suite of electroacoustic storytelling. Among these 13 poetic tunes, you can hear an interpretation of the Finnish mystified act Paavoharju (Fonal Records) and also a tune from the old Swedish children's TV show Ika i Rutan, originally composed by Lars Demian. |
I en trästuga... (EP 2011)
It features three versions of the same song, originally from the pre-release Morfint. These versions all have different instruments, tempos, tones and nuances, from the airy live feeling of track one, through the thick electric organ arrangement of track two, to the introverted, guitar-centered original version as track three.
Translated to English, the title reads In a wooden cottage with no electricity, with burning candles, after the snow storm has subsided. Together, these tracks evoke exactly that kind of tranquil wintery atmosphere. |