Bye, Matti
Capri Clouds
Matti Bye's third album, ""Capri Clouds"", moves through the element of the air and further into space. A lone piano sounds, echoes - sometimes like a waltz. We have the sound of the wind with us and the sound of the sea below us as we fly, and above we hear the stars and planets spinning. A piano from the past, as if Satie met space - as if Spiritualized and Satie talked to each other across timeand space.These songs go straight to the heart and to the senses, and create images in your head. Stories from your own memory bank, as well as new visions - music to lean into, meditatively and hopefully longing. But there is also an undertone of something dark and desolate. Musically, Matti Bye moves within the realm of neo-classicism, but he is also approaching romanticism. References to composers suchas Schubert and Beethoven are to be found here, as well as to post-romantic bands such as Kraftwerk and The Cure. In this third album of a trilogy - the first was ""Bethanien"", the second ""The Forgotten Land"" - Bye continues his musical journey. Here we encounter a brighter and lighter production. Anders af Klintberg has brought ""Capri Clouds"" up from the underworld and the dreamscape, towards clouds and skies.