hjalti

Winter Asks What We Did In The Summer

Winter Asks What We Did In The Summer
  1. The three dots hang in the air like ghosts of words unsaid…
  2. Dædum gedēfe, draēm-healdende…
  3. When I wake up in the middle of the night there is always a cold space beside me…
  4. Like a flame I flickered; like the tide, you drifted away…
  5. The pain that this light causes my eyes tells me I am not dreaming…
  6. Let the white light take us…

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This is the first full release of Hjalti. The title is a Roma proverb that I think encapsulates the feeling of the album perfectly. The songs are looking back to a summer full of promise from a winter where those promises need justification. The album moves from a sparse to a denser sound-scape as winters questions are answered more fully. My fundamental influences (Proem, Gridlock) as well as more recent influences (Burzum, Efterklang) are very apparent throughout the album. In the end I could have continued to work on this album for ever but I guess releases are a good snapshot of where I am at this point and time.