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PAN-AL EP

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1.	Jár 03:42	buy track
2.	It’s Rigged 04:25	buy track
3.	Trace & Locate 03:08	buy track
4.	Roadrunner 04:07	buy track
5.	It’s Nice to Miss You Too 02:30	buy track
6.	Quark 03:30	buy track
7.	Just Open Up 05:11	buy track

about

Apollo are delighted to announce the debut of Norwegian artist PAN-AL AKA Alexander Thorstvedt with his dreamlike new 'PAN-AL EP' written and produced from the bed and living room table of his Oslo flat.

"Starting this year, I re-discovered music making in a sense, as a channel for inner vision and method of connecting with oneself, at a time when I was doing a lot of thinking," Alexander explains. "I kind of just let things flow without a plan or agenda, and the result was this EP. "

PAN-AL's music is based around the core wash of ethereal synth pads and plangent synth melodies, bolstered by tastefully glitching beats that call to mind Selected Ambient Works dreamy rave atmosphere: "Combining light and soft synths with more intense beats adds contrast and interesting dynamics," Thorstvedt enthuses. "There's an androgynous character to it all."

A dedicated advocate of minimalism, Thorstvedt ensured that each song was constructed of a restricted number of elements, going as low as four tracks for the dreamlike opener 'Jár'. The beautiful simplicity is contrasted with layers of growling distortion which Thorstvedt marks out as a key technique: "Adding that bit of grit can really make sounds come alive and behave somewhat unpredictably."

With more PAN-AL music planned as well collaborations with other local creatives, the future looks bright for Alexander; "With this EP, I feel things are coming from a very natural place," Thorstvedt muses. "At least for my own sake, I find some calmness or escape in the PAN-AL music that is soothing. If other people can feel the same, that's amazing and humbling."

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released October 25, 2019

Written and composed by Alexander Thorstvedt.

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PAN-AL Oslo, Norway

Relaxing music to relax to :)

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No Mind

Dec 2020
PAN-AL EP - VINYL

Oct 2019
PAN-AL EP

Oct 2019

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