Tall Windows is the debut album by Danish composer, guitarist and producer Tomas Kaerup.
Recording and mix by Tomas Kaerup, master by Tomas and Peter Brander at MediaSoundStudios.
Released on deluxe 180 gram high fidelity black vinyl on Dream Rain Records.
Danish master painters from around the end of 18th century until beginning of the 19th, especially Hammershoi and J.F. Willumsen, laid the inspiration for the music – and the album title.
The album runs 37 minutes and presents Kærup’s almost silent melodic ambient jazz sensibilities as well as his background in punk rock and noise. The three preludes, also the first of the album tracks written, combines both worlds: the quiet transcending melodic motifs and the powerful distorted sonic soundscapes. Constantly floating, evolving and transposing between sounds and vibrant motifs the music is both dreamy and seductive -instrumental ambience soundscapes and distorted bliss. Lightness, darkness, hope and despair.
The nine tracks on Tall Windows are written for electric guitar and analog electronics, and a computer based sound system.
The album was recorded and mixed at Farsifar First Floor Studios in Copenhagen by Tomas Kærup, and mastered by Peter Brander at Media Sound Studios, Copenhagen.
“On the album second last track »Coast of Bretagne«, everything falls into place. The different elements melts together and creates a bigger picture. Soft electronic blip and blop across a rough sea in feedback and distortion. In the ocean a almost silent acoustic guitar is heard in the distance as a lifevest” – Seismograf