As a part of the launch of the Passed Recordings Label, we decided to do a short interview with each of our artists. First up is Take Me There, a guitarist and Experimental Ambient artist from Sweden.
What inspired you to start making music?
I have always had a great interest and curiosity in music. But it was when I was around 20, that I really started. I had gone through some tough times, with mental health problems, and to cope I started learning guitar. I sat hour after hour each day and just played. At the same time I had also really gotten into ambient and post-rock music. I really liked the atmosphere and feeling that kind of music was able to achieve. It often felt like I was in another place or a dream, when I listened to music that was so atmospheric. Then eventually I wanted to see if I could achieve the same thing with my guitar and then mix it with various effects. And it was from that, that I also started to love producing and working in DAW’s, it was so much fun that I didn’t want to stop.
How do you make your music?
Mostly through my guitar, which is connected to a few pedals. I work a lot with reverb, delay, pitch and chorus, very standard stuff for making ambient music. I often sit and just improvise on my guitar for an hour or two while recording, and then just take one or more riffs or melodies from that session that I liked. Then I mix that with field or nature recordings. I’m often out in nature to record with my field recorder. Nature inspires me a great deal both musically and in life so I like to feature it a lot in my music.
How would you describe the kind of music you make?
Very dreamy, soft and atmospheric. I usually have as a goal that my music should transport the listener to another place in their head. Nature is an effective way of doing this. I take a lot of inspiration from classical music, post-rock and ambient. My guitar playing especially is inspired a lot from different post-rock bands, like Mono or Sigur Rós for example. While the ambience and atmosphere is inspired a lot from Grouper and Brian Eno.
How would you like your music to affect others?
It’s a bit different for every song or album, but that people can find comfort or even escape from reality in my music is something I strive for. I want people to feel like they are in either a dream or somewhere in nature when they listen to my music. As far away as possible from cars, industries and so on. I also want my music to help heal people from whatever pain they are in. Music has done that a lot for me in my life, it has been my comfortable escape from the problems of life.
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