Today’s guest deejay is Henrik Öhberg, AKA, Tvärvägen.
I had the good fortune of meeting Henrik through Soundwave guest deejay Petter Lindhagen (listen to Petter’s mix here). After each show, I ask my guests who they think would share a mix on Soundwave, and Petter highly recommended Henrik, which led me to listen to Henrik’s music for an evening. The experience was everything I had hoped, and I extended an invitation to Henrik, and here he is today with his delightful mix.
Henrik’s fifth and latest album A Great Circle Route was released in January. The album was picked as New and Notable by the tastemakers at Bandcamp Daily. While A Great Circle Route owes a debt to Steve Reich’s American minimalism and the street compositions of Moondog, those influences are distilled through Henrik’s unique signature of soft, vaguely Nordic, melodic lines.
Tvärvägen began as Henrik’s experimental side hustle back in when he was part of the indie act Ironville and hip hop duo Amok. Soon enough, Tvärvägen was his main endeavor. Henrik’s been dabbling with post-classical music for string quartet and ethereal soundscapes. His songs have been featured in numerous TV and radio shows, documentaries, news programs, children’s shows, and more.
Henrik has some words about today’s mix below.
Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Mike Lazarev.
See you then.
With these songs, I've tried to capture a very subjective sense of physicality in sound, which I find highly appealing. No matter if the sounds' origins are of the real world or ethereal, I feel that they're present in the room at a scale 1:1, leaving breathing space whilst simultaneously reaching the outermost corners of the surroundings. It's music to touch and be touched by.
- Ichiko Aoba “opening”
- Tvärvägen “A Great Circle Route (Variation forSaxophone Quartet)”
- Plommehagepartitur “Oår 2”
- Autorhythm “Oxytocin”
- Ichiko Aoba “to the red room”
- Andrew Oda “Song of Absence”
- Rick Deitrick “Morningstar”
- Atte Elias Kantonen “Main Character”
- Tvärvägen (feat. Beem) “A Scene UnderWater”
- Ichiko Aoba “chocolate (cookies)”
- Time Wharp “Mixo World”
- Trio Ramberget “E dur – Fält”
- Dialect “Flame Not Stone”
- Ichiko Aoba “my brother”
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