Caecilie Overgaard - There Is A Home (2018)

Three years after the release of her debut Lydbølgen Af Hjerteslag, the Danish electronic composer Cæcilie Overgaard is ready with her sophomore album, There Is A Home.

"A home is a complex concept. There Is a Home is my living room. It is the place where I feel balanced. It is where all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, revealing a sonic universe that can hold both the light and the darkness - an ability that I have been struggling to regain since a young age. Now I have found that balance," says the 29-year-old composer.

With There Is A Home, we are invited into Cæcilie's living room to find a spot between the speakers on a soft pillow. From here you can just float away on a blue-violet cloud. The arrangements take you deeper and deeper into an electro-acoustic wonderland where you will encounter modulated everyday sounds, synthesizers, crackling beats and a soft trumpet that blends smoothly with the electronic soundscapes, all the while the bass drum steadily catches the rhythm of your heart.

Cæcilie Overgaard's compositions, grooves and tristesse is dosed together to create a space for imaginary landscapes to pass by. In the music, shadow spots move melancholically atop warm waves, like the footprints of clouds. Watch the night fly's flight towards the moonlight that flows dancingly through the composer's living room window, where light and darkness balance safely.

Lydbølgen Af Hjerteslag was released in 2015 and took an imaginative experimental approach to everyday sounds and sound manipulation along with captivating and profound melodies, melancholia, and energetic beats.

But There Is a Home has brighter touches as well as a rather more inquisitive approach to those completely mundane sounds - or how about modulating an engine sound a sonorous marimba, or a plastic bag from the local supermarket by means of a soft snare drum? Cæcilie Overgaard's signature sound is still the Nordic blue-note soundscapes, but it stand no longer alone, as it is now accompanied by warm, floating waves.