Meierkord’s Stillness
The word “stillhet,” I’ve been informed by Google Translate, means “calm” in English. The correlation isn’t much of a surprise, not given its first four letters — or its application as the title to three tracks released by Sweden-based cellist Henrik Meierkord. The collection is a gorgeous exploration of stillness — the cello echoed and layered, as likely to drift in the background as soar overhead, and more to the point to do so simultaneously, along with other iterations, often transformed by gentle electronic effects into something placid, ethereal, and introspective. The set is absolutely beautiful, though like so much stillness, underneath lurks a certain current of gravitas.
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