Ludvig Cimbrelius - a summer yet to come (2024)

Never quite feeling at home in his country of birth, whenever Ludvig had the chance to travel he couldn’t help but hope to find that deep sense of belonging somewhere. On a journey alone across the western United States in his early twenties, he believed he had somehow found what he was looking for, but had no way of holding on to it. After this journey he always dreamt of going back. Fearing it might all be a mirage, for years Ludvig felt the call from the other side of the Atlantic, and eventually he answered it. Along his path he found endless beauty, but not quite the summer he dreamt of…

These songs were written and recorded in Sweden in between the years 2018 and 2021, and also feature recordings made along the road across voyages in North America. Knowing that this album existed among his archives of unreleased songs, Ludvig was sure that he wanted to release it on his long-time friend Andrew’s label, yet it seemed the time was not quite right. And so, he let the songs rest while two summers passed into the hands of autumn.

In 2023 while traveling in Asia, the vision of this album again rose to the surface of his mind, and on his portable studio setup, Ludvig mixed, re-arranged, and even re-recorded some vocals that he wasn’t entirely happy with (making sure to time the vocal takes in-between the cries of monkeys and an obnoxious synth version of Für Elise blasting from the passing tuk-tuk). Surprisingly, this turned out to be the perfect environment for bringing his long-time ephemeral vision into clear view.

Given its present form in a process spanning six years and three continents, ‘a summer yet to come’ is perhaps the most personal work of Ludvig’s to date. As the title suggests, these songs in some sense tell the story of seeds still waiting for their season to bloom.