Paleotone is the second album by Dorian Gray Quartet, following Velvet Decay (2024). Where Velvet Decay explored memory and emotion, Paleotone listens to the Earth itself to the deep, slow music of time. The album traces the planet’s evolution through fifteen movements, from the first vibration after the Big Bang to the quiet pulse beneath the ice. It’s a work of nordic minimalism and analog atmosphere, built from soft guitars, deep bass, distant drums and layers of organic reverb. Each piece is both scientific and poetic: geology as memory, erosion as melody, fossils as fragments of feeling. Recorded in Norway between silence and light, Paleotone drifts between post-rock, ambient and art-music, music for reflection, not reaction.
Dorian Gray Quartet explores the space between modal jazz, ambient minimalism, and spoken word. Each release is a slow unfolding — poetic, reflective, and unresolved. Based in Ålesund, Norway. 📩 Contact frank.nordstrand@gmail.com