Matti Bye Explores Consciousness and Sound on New Album The Length Between Dusk and Dawn in Minutes

Key facts

• Matti Bye is a Swedish composer and pianist.
• His new solo album is titled The Length Between Dusk and Dawn in Minutes.
• The album is released on the Neue Meister label, distributed by Edel Music & Entertainment GmbH.
• It was recorded over three days in winter at Kulturhuset i Ytterjärna, an anthroposophical cultural center about 50 kilometers south of Stockholm.
• The recording featured a Bösendorfer concert grand piano, analog tape machines, and a Space Echo.
• Bye drew inspiration from Debussy, Ravel, British acid-folk from the late 1960s and early 1970s (Mark Fry, Trader Horne, Ithaca, Trees), Proust, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Henri Bergson, Hilma af Klint, Max Ernst, Alice Coltrane, and Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru.
• The album was produced with Anders af Klintberg and sound engineer Johan Hällgren.
• Bye previously released the albums Bethanien, This Forgotten Land, and Capri Clouds, forming a loose trilogy.
• He has composed film scores for Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments and Pernilla August's A Serious Game, and created new scores for silent films performed at MoMA in New York and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
• For his music for 'Faro', he won the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Original Music and the Finnish Harpa Nordic Film Music Prize.