These delicate guitars weave a forest of notes that mystically wraps the listener, providing a strong atmosphere of serenity hard to ignore. We can also notice beautiful apparitions of a violin and a piano, so the music earns richness and ambience. In some passages one can feel as if the notes were snowflakes falling upon the firs, seen from a lonely cabin in the forest. The ten tracks conforming this album, however, are all instrumental –except for that song where a girl sings, using her voice without singing lyrics-. Nevermind; this album speaks for itself thousand more times than millions of verses filling the booklets nowadays. When the two guitars collide in those precious harmonies, conforming delicate dances in the dark, literally tearing the silence, there´s nothing else to do than contemplate the visions “Forlatt” wishes to convey. For silence is a great element in the music of Vali, believe it or not. Looks like if Vàli have “received” these songs off observation, calmness, meditation in the forests. The sounds emerging from “Forlatt” are the token of this. This is music to remind us mother Nature, to emphasize inner emotions, a momentary banish from the material world. Awesome.

written by Fjordi

Playing time: 35.02