Swedish-Australian artist KAAPSTAAD brings spacious downtempo flavour in ‘Aula’ single
After accumulating more than 1 million views on YouTube and 800K streams on Spotify with his band Tiny Fighter, founder Tim Spelman used the downtime imposed by the lockdowns happening throughout the Coronavirus pandemic to indulge his original passion for film and game scores. What started as a desire to create music for films eventually transitioned into a new solo ambient-chill project, dubbed KAAPSTAAD. Composing and recording the music while moving between his two homes of Sweden and Australia, this project ultimately blossomed in its own unique way.
Following the piano-based resonating ambient track ‘Night’, the Sweden-based Australian artist has now released ‘Aula’, for which he worked with the British production company UNTHNKBLE to create a spectacular cinematic video featuring drone footage taken over epic, sweeping landscapes. His chiming notes and chilled textures seem to paint images of the Baltic landscape that conceived it.
An outlet for his more introspective, downtempo solo creations, Kaapstaad is the solo electronic project of Tim Spelman, the driving force behind indie pop outfit Tiny Fighter and post-rock project Fire To The Stars. This music is influenced by such notable artists as Neils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds, Ludovico Enaudi, BVG, Agnes Obel, Tibeauthetraveller and Grouper.
Both ‘Aula’ and ‘Night’ were performed, recorded and produced in Stockholm and Sunshine Coast, Australia by Tim Spelman. ‘Night’ was where it all started and, with support from Swedish collaborators Marcus Wallberg and Tommy Wilen, Kaapstaad became a project in its own right.
Tim Spelman notes, “Night’ was originally composed for a short film score that never saw the light of the day. Intended as a lullaby-meets-soundscape, the idea was to combine a simple melody with field recordings taken out in a Swedish forest at night – that’s the rain, insects and crackles you can hear in the background of the song. Whilst the film soundtrack never eventuated, I was very happy with both the process and the product – something very different to the indie-pop/post-rock of my previous bands. So happy, in fact, it gave birth to an entirely new project – Kaapstaad.”
‘Aula is out now, available everywhere online, including Spotify and Apple Music, but is available to order directly from the artist via Bandcamp.
VIDEO CREDITS
Drone Pilots – Harry Steele & Ethan Parker
Editor – Harry Steele
Grade – Harry Steele
Creative Direction – Oska Zaky
Produced by @UNTHNKBLE
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