Gentle Upon the Water is an invite to drift with the melodious flotsam of an emotive indie folks serenade. With this radio-ready launch, GISKE envelop you in a nostalgic strategy to manufacturing, the place each instrumental and vocal word resonates with intention. The association rushes nothing. Every part arrives precisely when it must, lifting you from the burden you didn’t realise you had been carrying.
This one is for the dreamers. Those who try to seek out magnificence within the periphery, however particularly inside the worlds that affection and connection open. Gentle Upon the Water attracts from basic 70s singer-songwriter introspection to carry a mirror to what’s lacking in your world, filling that area with layered harmonies that lull you right into a soft-focus, psychotropic trance.
Born from the lifelong collaboration between Rune Berg and Alex Rinde, GISKE carries the spirit of a shared previous on the distant Norwegian island they each known as residence. Their bond, rooted in bike rides and first songs, advanced via the years and musical incarnations, culminating of their second album, Ten Visits, Ten Songs. Every observe was formed throughout visits between Oslo and the island, changing into a testomony to endurance, loyalty and the form of connection that point doesn’t dilute.
Gentle Upon the Water captures that unstated language between individuals who have by no means stopped creating collectively. It holds area for stillness with out letting silence take over.
Gentle Upon the Water is now out there to stream on all main platforms, together with YouTube.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
