Perseverance yields results –  and sometimes produces things which just seem to get better and better...like Tonbruket (it means ‘sound factory’). The four Swedes have been making music together for 10 years now, and in their sixth album "Masters of Fog", the band has done the musical equivalent of throwing a smoke grenade. Musical genres suddenly become indistinct and blurry. Tonbruket give themselves up to the imagination, to the senses, and to the intoxication of the moment. It really doesn't fit into any category – except that it is deeply enjoyable.When Tonbruket was formed in 2009 and consists of four equals with markedly different musical backgrounds. Bassist Dan Berglund brought to it a remarkable openness to new stylistic ideas and also a natural inquisitiveness, both of these traits having developed significant...

Besetzung

Dan Berglund / double & electric bass
Johan Lindström / guitars, pedal steel guitar & keys
Martin Hederos / piano, synthesizers & violin
Andreas Werliin / drums, percussion & radio (on 2)

Aufnahmedetails

01, 03 (part 1) & 09 recorded by Mikael Lyander at Sandkvie Studios. 02, 03 (part 2), 04, 06 & 11 recorded by Anton Sundell and Johan Lindström at Studio Bruket. 05, 07, 08 & 10 recorded by Janne Hansson at Atlantis Studio

Strings on The Enders and Enter The Amazonas played by Kvarts: Alva Press and Matilda Norlöv (violin), Anna Rubinsztein (viola) and Erik Elvkull (cello). Arranged by Martin Hederos (The Enders part 1) and Johan Lindström (The Enders part 2/outro and Enter The Amazonas). Recorded by Janne Hansson at Atlantis Studio

Sound effects on Enter The Amazonas by Anton Sundell

Mixed by Johan Lindström and Tonbruket at Studio Bruket, except 01, 09 & 10 by Janne Hansson & Tonbruket at Atlantis Studio; 04 & 06 (intro) mixed by Anton Sundell at Studio Bruket

Mastered by Henrik Jonsson at Masters of Audio

Produced by Tonbruket

Cover art by Jesper Waldersten, by permission of the artist