Kammarn

Sweden’s Ivar Lantz blipped onto beach-ready dancefloors and mixes with three beguiling downtempo albums under the handle Golden Ivy, all released in quick succession. Lantz favored cycling loops, head-nodding bass, and filigrees of woodwind and harp, steadfast in building each track towards serotonin release. A few years passed since 2019’s winsome Kläppen, but Golden Ivy returns now with Kammarn. The folk elements (violin, flute) that were once deployed to stack and build towards sturdier rhythms are now left unadorned and unadulterated, as if to let us better appreciate the wood grain and horse hair of the instrumentation. Somewhere between Steve Reich’s Violin Phase and Arthur Russell’s World of Echo, the miniatures on Kammarn carve out an intimate space.