Jasper TX

The 20-minute Harrisburg appeared on an EP in 2007, a rather trivial exercise in rising and fading out a hissing drone. The EP D+A (2007) contains two ten-minute pieces: the delicate splintering chimera of D (another highlight) and the dense and dramatic crescendo of A.

His art reached maturity on A Darkness (Lidar Productions, 2007). A few pieces are outright lyrical despite the surgical process employed to manufacture them. Better Days To Come juxtaposes a lullaby for acoustic guitar and a buzzing electronic signal, with the latter winning the duel. Destroy Detroit sets in motion a terrifying tsunami a` la Gordon Mumma, but then unlocks the city chaos that it was imprisoned in it, and the result is a gentle melodic duet for guitar and keyboards. A simpler approach leads to the dejected elegy of Winter/Midnight/Suicide, worthy of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack.
At the other end of the spectrum, the 14-minute Nightbirds begins with white noise and statics. The various strands get unified in a sleep, sharp drone that drifts in empty space until alien noises take over. The dialogue of these creatures is a mini-concerto of electroacoustic music in itself.
The 21-minute Some Things Broken Some Things Lost is the crowning achievement of the album: a dark sensuous drone slowly unravels until it emanates waves of light; specks of sonic dust coalesce into a new stately drone that acquires cosmic proportions; a serene cascading melody is plucked on one guitar against another guitar's counterpoint with renaissance-like grace.

The dark, cryptic and hypnotic six-movement Black Sleep (Miasmah, 2008) begins with stately ambient drones that slowly decompose into dirtier drones. An acoustic guitar intones a simple melody but is soon swallowed into a black hole of pure shapeless noise. A subtle radiation resurrects the guitar melody but it's only an illusion. Abruptly interrupted, the music sinks again in a swamp of unstable drones. A dominant drone eventually emerges and gets louder and deeper. This turns into a chaotic festival of metallic sounds, like a symphony of ticking clocks. An organ-like drone leads the concrete poem to a mournful conclusion.

In A Cool Monsoon (Pumpkin Seeds In The Sand, 2007) collects recordings of 2003-07.

The five-song EP Pilgrims (2007), credited to Jaspert TX, was re-released on the album A Voice From Dead Radio (2010). It contains more austere experiments, notably the funereal drone of Through Dusk which has left behind all the hissing and crackling.

Vintermusik (2007) documents a collaboration with Rutger Zuydervelt.

The six-song This Quiet Season (2008), credited again to Jasper TX, contains Things Could Stay (11:05), another stately droning composition, Twilight (08:27), a slow-motion celestial vision, and the barely moving ether of Embers. This album displays a higher level of sophistication, evoking Zen-like concentration.

The deluge of recordings continued with: the six-song EP Closet Ghosts (Fenetre, 2009), the EP Untitled nr.7 (2009), containing a trivial 20-minute piece, The Bending Of Light (SMTG Limited, 2009), a split with Anduin (Jonathan Lee of Souvenir's Young America), Replica Archipelago (2009), a collaboration with poet Bue Nordstrom, etc. The mini-album Lungs (2009) contains the solemn cosmic and mystical vision of The Golden Afternoon (14:43) and, breaking with his normal mode, the expressionist suspense and scream of White (15:43), both derived from live performances.

Inevitably, the multitude of recordings took a toll on the quality. The album Singing Stones (Fang Bomb, 2009), is an inferior collection, with the trivial Stillness, the facile impressionism of A Box of Wood in the Storm, and the languid loop of Into the Sea, but also another fragile filigree like The Barren Land.

The 21-minute piece of the EP Mute/ Harbour (2010) simply rehashes old ideas with less genius.

The Black Sun Transmissions (Fang Bomb, 2011) returns to the hissing distortion in the imposing All I Could Never Be, adds a romantic cello in Weight Of Days, adds a trombone and a piano in the soothing sonata White Birds, but sinks in the noisy chaos of the 21-minute Shores.

Then came Wonderland (2012), a collaboration with electronic musician Matthew Collings, and An Index of Failure (2013), a collection of odds and sodds.

Dag Rosenqvist switched to his own name for Music for Contemporary Dance (2013), which contains music for dance performances: the explosive crescendo of Days of the Fall, the oceanic suspense of Alpha Episodes and the magical romance of Alina.

Under his own name, he released: Fall Into Fire (2014), which includes the grating fantasia The Gate - White Nights, Split Lips (12:55), with its apocalyptic finale of distortion and overtones, and the magniloquent alien march-like The Procession - Become The End (11:16), one of his most cinematic compositions; The Forest Diaries (Eilean, 2015), another soundtrack for a ballet, in ten movements, much more subdued and piano-based; Music In Three Movements For When The World Falls Apart (2015), a generally more sophisticated and trance-like album which contains the largely static droning soundscape of Embers And Ashes (29:49), the subsonic waves of Are There Tigers On The Moon? (10:05) and the cosmic mantra I Am Lost Without You (19:13); Vowels (2015) in four movements (two relatively calm ambient pieces, a wall of noise, and a final prayer-like adagio); Elephant (2016), containing Whatever it Takes to Disappear, which seems to inject Mike Oldfield's poppy minimalism into his old hissing aesthetic, In All the Hours of Every Day, which seems to inject Michael Nyman's exuberant minimalism into industrial noise, and especially the grandiose and pulsing cacophonous apocalypse of Porcelan; Storm Rituals (2016), containing the stately organ drones of The Bleeding World (18:48) and the burning tribal hell of Ascend Into Darkness (19:29), one of his most violent compositions; the spectral ten-minute piece of the EP Keillers Park (2016); the film soundtrack Length of Sweden (2017), which is almost an anthology because it recycles past classics such as Whatever it Takes to Disappear, Alpha Episodes, Are There Tigers On The Moon?, I Am Lost Without You, The Gate, The Bleeding World and two movements of Black Sleep; Blood Transmission (2019), a more conventional set of nine ambient vignettes, with the exception of the galopping and ominous From Rivers to the Sea; Fields (2020), a suddent detour into dance music, including the pulsating and orchestral The Tremulant (halfway between Tangerine Dream and Giorgio Moroder); Vraen Centrum (2021), a cycle of ten humbler electronic ambient sonatas; Lexika (2022), which flirts with both dance music and synth-pop; etc.

Teeth Out (2015) was a collaboration with Johan Gustavsson credited to the Silence Set.

He formed Smaland with Thobias Eidevald and Christian Berg. They released Ljudsparsmusik Vol 1 (2019) and Doden (2023).

He also recorded four albums with Aaron Martin, credited to From the Mouth of the Sun, including Light Caught The Edges (2021) and A Broken House (2021).