Los Angeles, 2019. Early days of October. The boys behind Ecovillage and Purl met for the first time in 3D. Their meeting in a city of dreams and dreamers seemed orchestrated by divine forces, just a few months before the world shut down.
Everything seemed possible. The air was thick with magic and every day ripe with transformation, whether in heartfelt moments on stage leaning over the edge into the unknown, or on spontaneous adventures such as a day-long hike in Joshua Tree that felt like some kind of pilgrimage, dissolving into the enormity of the landscape (and the overwhelming heat). This short time together was defined by a kind of childlike innocence—the sense of novelty and limitless discovery on the horizon the thread connecting every part.
Crammed in a hot room in downtown Hollywood between live shows, the three Swedes exchanged sounds that in time became the primary grounds for the excavations of radiance that are collected and summarised in ‘Fragments of Light’. The album finally found its frame in 2023 when Ludvig (Purl) was traversing Sri Lanka on a train, while Emil and Peter (Ecovillage) were somewhat more securely anchored in the northern part of the artists’ native homeland. Their shared process of uncovering and refining all the pieces continued for years across different continents and emotional states.
](torrents/images/813160.jpg)