Here’s an oddity… (sweden) Hans Appelqvist’s music blends a highly accomplished grasp on song structure with a unique ear for peculiar sound designs. Appelqvist plays a handful of traditional acoustic instruments and even sings on occasion, but the defining characteristic of this artist has to be the implementation of field recordings, which are made up of wildlife sounds, thunder storms, children’s voices and an awful lot of tinkering around with a kazoo. There aren’t a great many people who can get away with the use of a kazoo, but Appelqvist carries it off as well as anyone’s ever likely to. It all meshes together in a pleasing mosaic of sounds from the natural world and an instrumental prowess that suggests a classical background. At times, it’s all about the soundscaped ambience, with woodpecker noises and cuckoo calls, while at others, piano or guitar takes centrestage. Either way, Appelqvist is certainly out on his own, fashioning some highly unusual compositions.
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