Finnish-born Henrik Blomfelt grew up in Gaspar Narby's homeland of Switzerland, but the pair met on the dance floor of a pool club in Peckham while studying in London. Gaspar’s indie pop solo project was rewarded with a broad sweep of tastemaker tips from new music and electronica media alike, while Henrik had co-founded Resolution, an audio-visual collective and event series. The two eventually moved in together, but it's only a couple of years later, when Gaspar visited Henrik’s homeland of Finland, that they began making music together.
The plan was to make music, sit in extremely hot saunas, cook homemade pesto, and enjoy 24-hour daylight. Using an old piano, a cassette recorder found on location, a microphone and their laptops, the pair naturally started making music merging acoustic and electronic, dance music and ambient, loose field-recordings and tight programmed beats, soft melodies and dark noise. They wrote half of the tracks that appear on their latest LP “Peter, Barbara, Beth & Friends” there, the second half was later finished back in London.
Influences for their music are wide-reaching: Blomfelt is an ambient/electronic producer in his own right, but you will find Nelly Furtado’s All Good Things (Come To An End) in his playlist entitled “ambient”. Narby’s solo project mixes elements of pop with electronica and was featured in MixMag, Complex and Wonderland Magazine amongst others.
