LEXIKA by Dag Rosenqvist
Lexika is a soundtrack to an imagined sci-fi movie set in deep space. It started with an image of a completely silent explosion in space. From that image I created a narrative of sorts, where a story unfolded as I set out to create the music that would become Lexika. With Lexika I’ve tried to step outside of myself and look at life, the universe, and our fragile existence from another vantage point. The themes of the album – grief, sorrow, hope, perseverance – are themes I come back to repeatedly though. This time they’re just framed in a slightly bigger picture.
When I close my eyes and listen, I see supermassive black holes. I see the Oort cloud, asteroids hurtling through endless black, the Andromeda galaxy, a radiant supernova, the redshift at the end of the universe. I see the endless vastness of space, I see Voyager II leaving our solar system and I see Mercury as a tiny dot in front of our sun. I see a story that unfolds forwards and backwards simultaneously through time where we – humanity – are both part of it and not. How, from the cosmic perspective, mankind’s existence is so brief that you’d miss it if you blink. And how that also makes it so precious.
Tracklist
| 1. | Solar I | 2:43 |
| 2. | Ignoto | 5:53 |
| 3. | Into Fields | 4:37 |
| 4. | Drift I | 1:42 |
| 5. | Why You? | 2:43 |
| 6. | Io | 5:07 |
| 7. | Drift II | 3:05 |
| 8. | Automata | 2:47 |
| 9. | Please Return | 4:38 |
| 10. | Drift III | 3:35 |
| 11. | Automata (signals) | 1:36 |
| 12. | Solar II | 7:52 |
Credits
All music written, arranged and produced by Dag Rosenqvist. Recorded and mixed at Ringön and Studio Omvägen 2016-2021. Drums on Ignoto performed and recorded by Pontus Torstensson.
Mastered by Andreas Görts
Cover design by Nullvoid
Thank you Dronarivm, Pontus Torstensson, Andreas Görts, Thomas Ekelund, Ulla Skagerlund, family and friends.
License
All rights reserved.
Since 2005 Dag Rosenqvist has released 30 albums, EP’s and cassette tapes in different constellations, the main one being Jasper TX that was put to rest 2012. Other constellations include From The Mouth of The Sun, de la Mancha and The Silence Set. He has also collaborated with Machinefabriek, Mike Weis and Simon Scott and released albums on Miasmah, Fang Bomb, Experimedia and Kning Disk.