Tracklist
01 I’m Asleep On the Floor While Sunbeams Grace My Tired Head
02 Gone, Away…
03 Warmth
04 And When We Die, God Makes Angels of Us All
05 Golden
06 To Felixstowe

Reviews

English
Aquarius, Boomkat, Cyclic Defrost, Foxy Digitalis, Loop, Textura, The Silent Ballet

Various
Caleidoscoop (nl), Sound of Music (se)

F3N002: Jasper TX - Closet Ghosts
Released November 10th, 2008

9/10 - "Is this sort of genre-defying exploration of a world of sound the future of music? Dear god let’s hope so."
-Foxy Digitalis

"Closet Ghosts is a great way to spend twenty minutes of your life. Highly recommended."
-Boomkat

"Another fantastic bit of abstract minimalism, and as some other reviewer opined, a pretty great way to spend 20 minutes. We of course concur, and thus say: RECOMMENDED!"
-Aquarius

"A beautiful mix between nightly ambient drones and acoustic instruments. Great in it's smallness."
-Caleidoscoop

"The great beauty of albums like Closet Ghosts is that they are brightly different, highly creative and opens the listener up to a brighter world amongst the melancholy."
-Cyclic Defrost

"Good things do come in small packages."
-Textura

7/10 - "With Closet Ghosts he’s managed to craft a work of precise delicateness."
-The Silent Ballet

"Gorgeous melodies between hazy atmospheres."
-Loop

Fenêtre Records follows up last year's 3" EP by Beneva vs. Clark Nova by welcoming none other than Dag Rosenqvist to the label roster. This prolific Gothenburg-based Swedish musician - already with five full-length albums to his name since 2005 - is probably well-known as Jasper TX (and also member of prog-rock outfit De La Mancha) to most fans of guitar-based electronica and the "laptop folk"/americana/shoegaze scene. Also, Jasper TX should be synonymous with lovely ambient drones centered around Dag's trademark, analogue guitar sounds. Contrary to the last 3" on Fenêtre featuring two long ambient pieces, Jasper TX here offers a collection of six diversely built-up compositions or closet ghosts - complementing a recurring theme from the preceding 3" release yet also offering something unique and uplifting - reminiscent of his peers upholding the traditions of guitar-based instrumentals like Fennesz, Tape, Tim Hecker, Library Tapes, Seaworthy, Sickoakes, etc.

Rosenqvist - an aficionado for analogue and lo-fi textures is an expert at composing melancholic soundscapes based around simple guitar themes embellished in rich patterns of sounds extracted from synths and organs, other string instruments, field recordings and other toyish effects. The music is very heartfelt and personal, bearing witness of an awareness and empathy in the composer. And though at the offset the music may seem bleak and shrouded in an all-encompassing gloomy darkness, at some point does Rosenqvist's beliefs in hope and a prevailing optimism shine through to leverage a lighter counter-weight to the darkness and dispelling any brooding in the listener through soothing melancholic tones.

Artwork by Allan Näslund
Mastered by Andreas Tilliander