Alstrom

Alstrom was initially created by novelist Jane Retzig* to produce a soundtrack for her 2021 novel of the same name. Here she talks about the process behind the music... "The first Alstrom album was really just an experiment to see if I could recreate and record the music of the band at the centre of my last novel. With an unusual amount of time on my hands during the Covid lockdowns, I wrote, played and multitracked the original music using an M-Audio keyboard into my Ableton Live Digital Audio workstation. Then I searched for a vocalist, and was incredibly fortunate to find Heather LeAnn. Since those early days I've released several singles about love, loss, spiritual yearning and impending environmental catastrophe (sometimes all of them at once!). The music is largely downtempo electronic with folk-rock and jazz influences. Particular inspiration has come from my love of Curved Air, Steeleye Span, Rick Van Der Linden (Ekseption & Trace), and Harrogate band Wally, whose music runs the full gamut from majestic prog rock through to country. I can be contacted by email c/o: janeretzig@gmail.com My lyric videos are available on You Tube Thank you for your interest in reading this far. I really hope you enjoy my music." *Jane Retzig is the pen name of Pauline Brumwell