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10 years ago, on 2nd September 2015, I released the EP Silent Echoes, my first music ever as Njordlyd 🎶. What started as two tracks – Towards the Night and Hidden Moments – has since become the foundation of everything I’ve created and continues to shape my creative path to this day. Silent Echoes explored ambient and downtempo soundscapes, weaving textures, rhythmic elements, and layered atmospheres. It was my first step into shaping sound as a form of storytelling, using music to evoke feeling, reflection, and imagination, while sharing my own creative ideas and trail of thoughts. Looking back, it feels surreal to realize that 10 years have passed. Since then, my music has evolved, expanded, and taken me through countless experiments, singles, albums, EPs, and live performances. Later this year, Silent Echoes will return in a remastered edition, including a few unreleased versions from the original recording sessions. #njordlyd #SilentEchoes 
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This album comes from a mind that never really stops. Thoughts drift in, change direction, disappear, or keep going longer than expected — often with no clear structure, more like a flow. And this is where these tracks come from.
Each track on the album is just a small part of that wider, fragmented landscape. They’re not aiming to tell a full story or fit neatly together — they’re more like fragments caught in a process. Emerging from the same diffused state, but taking their own form. The sound has a quiet, spacey feel — sometimes slightly sci-fi-inspired, like signals drifting through static. Not loud or dramatic. Not made to stand out — more like something that surfaces when everything else gets quiet and your thoughts come together. This is simply that: a collection. Of sounds, moods, and scattered thoughts — determined and present. "Pathfinder" The first single from The Diffused Thoughts Collection, is out today!
A track about discovery—finding direction, a path, and a sense of self through ambient textures and experimental layers. Give it a listen and step into the journey. The official visual for "Pathfinder" is. now available on my YouTube channel. Inspired by graphic novel aesthetics, the visual captures the feeling of entering a space of uncertainty. Through transitions, subtle effects, and moments of stillness, it unfolds with an evolving, almost spectral atmosphere—suggesting a dreamlike motion. Silhouettes linger in the distance, barely visible, suspended between stillness and movement, hinting at decisions, direction, and change. The result is a quiet, cinematic journey—reflective, uncertain, and quietly transformative. A visual extension of the track—atmospheric, introspective, and full of possibility.
This video showcases the entirety of my debut album as Njordlyd, "Getting Closer," an industrial and dark ambient styled concept album. The album features 10 tracks created using reshaped sounds, samples, and field recordings, weaving them into evolving, immersive soundscapes. In this release, I continue working backward through my catalog of albums, having previously created full album visuals for "The Absence of Noise" and "Correlations." For "Getting Closer," I have used visuals consistent with earlier works (where available), reusing elements from my live performance of "Dark Ride" and crafting distinct, surreal scenes for each track. Each visual reflects the mood of its corresponding track, combining dark, graphic novel-inspired imagery with surreal, abstract elements. Expect circular paths, shifting geometries, industrial environments, grainy textures, faint glitches, and impossible dimensions—all tied together in a surreal, immersive narrative.
I have just released my first-ever live performance as Njordlyd. This 30-minute set weaves together six tracks that reflect my journey from 2021 to now. It opens with an intro based the second part of Circles, flowing into Dark Ride, Correlations Part 2 and 4, Adrift, and The Least—each representing key moments in shaping my sound.
The set concludes with "Out of Left Field", a heavier, more intense track (unreleased) that brings an unexpected edge to the performance. Now available on all major streaming services. I am currently working on my next album, planned for release in spring 2025. The first single is expected at the beginning of the year.In the meantime, I’m releasing something different: Njordlyd Live #01: Den Haag 2024 (Pop Radar) on December 19th. This live recording is ideal for taking a moment to relax and unwind after a busy December, offering some calm before Christmas.
Thanks for listening and following along. A new section has been added to the website: live. On this page I will post everything related to live performances. For now it is still under construction and contains only information, pictures and videos from my live performance 20th of October 2024. Stay tuned for more about live performances.
In addition I have removed the section "The Absence of Noise" to make space for this new section. However, the section is still accessible / available via the music page (section), as well as the home page (section). |
