Tomas Nordmark
Tomas Nordmark is a Swedish musician, composer and producer of experimental music who lives and works in London. In 2012 Nordmark co-founded the artist collective Ingrid together with artists such as Lykke Li, Peter Bjorn & John and Miike Snow but left the collective the following year. He has also worked as a graphic designer for many musical artists most notably for El Perro Del Mar on her Pale Fire and Kokoro albums. In 2019 Nordmark released the album "Eternal Words." It was inspired by Mark Fisher's “spectres of lost futures,” and is partly based on traditional Scandinavian music and hymns. It was released by the American music entrepreneur, writer and musician Nabil Ayers's Valley of Search label, a sister label to The Control Group. The album was described by The Guardian's John Lewis as “a heavenly, palate-cleansing series of minty-fresh synthesised drones and bleeps that manage to tell stories that resolve without even hinting at melody”
and The New York Times's music critic Jon Pareles described the composition "Human" as “a meditative, nearly ambient foundation: sustained, consonant tones like distant horns. But the foreground is jittery, full of unpredictable, glassy tones that briefly hover, then disappear”. In 2019 Nordmark also collaborated with film and opera director Glen Sheppard from the English National Opera with the experimental avant-garde opera Außer Sich which was based on Richard Strauss's opera Salome and re-composed by Nordmark.
