Tor Lundvall

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Tor Lundvall (born 1968 in Wyckoff, New Jersey) is a painter and musician who is based out of East Hampton, New York. His oil paintings are quite vivid and luminous due to his use of vibrant colors and the strong tension created between light and shadow. Lundvall’s imagery is mostly inspired by rural northeastern American landscapes which he inhabits with imaginative figures and isolated individuals. His canvases often depict serene environments with an underlying sense of menace. Tor first came into the public eye in the early 1990s through his art exhibitions in New York and after creating the CD artwork for various musicians, including several projects for Tony Wakeford‘s dark folk group Sol Invictus). Lundvall has also produced cover art for Gonzalo Rubalcaba‘s Solo CD (2006) and Miles Davis‘s The Blue Note and Capitol Recordings CD box-set reissue (1993), both released on Blue Note Records. His paintings have also been featured on the covers of the March 2007 and July 2008 issues of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. Lundvall went on to create many of his own cover artworks.

Described by BrooklynVegan as an “ambient wizard”, Lundvall came to prominence as a recording artist with the release of Autumn Calls (1998), a collaboration with Tony Wakeford released on the now defunct British record label World Serpent Distribution. Three solo albums followed, continuing the seasons-themed concept: Ice (1999), The Mist (2001) and Under the Shadows of Trees (2003). Tor Lundvall’s music has evolved over the years from early pop songs, to a more ambient sound, which he personally finds difficult to describe or categorize.