Abstrakt Lake – Moments // Elements
Album | 13/03/2026 | Wormhole World Records
38:52 | 8 tracks | CD / Digital
Ambient / Field Recordings
Meaux, France
Eight Impressions
Moments // Elements is the third album release by Balthazar Klimt‘s Abstrakt Lake within three years. And just like previous longplayers Abstrakt Lake and Meanderings, Moments // Elements was mixed and mastered by Vadik Squarez, is published via Wormhole World Records, and is wrapped in a beautiful artwork by Dmitriy Kalmykov. Also guest musician Artem Litovchenko and his cello have appeared on all three Abstrakt Lake album so far.
And thus, here is the third part of the atmospheric journey, an impressionist soundscape consisting of eight sonic paintings, loaded with depth and sensuality. Eight moments and their elements have been turned into deeply meditative tracks.
Of Nature, Thoughts, and Matter
Moments // Elements contains field recordings from seven places in France and Norway. Balthazar Klimt has caught the impressions and the atmosphere of unique moments such as frogs croaking at a pond or a fire place on Christmas. Abstrakt Lake prefers vintage electronica instruments, from the cold war era and from the former Soviet Union especially, to transfer these soundscapes into ambient music. These instruments add a distinctive chill and metallic sound to the installments. And then, powered by percussions and loops, the impressions turn into eight dreamy and melancholic tracks.
Eight Pictures, One Reverie
Although, Moments // Elements consists of eight closed plots, the tracks’ arrangement yet provides a coherent structure. Thus, it appears as if these short stories all belong to a cohesive dream with changing setting. Travelling from France to Norway and back, Abstrakt Lake leads the listeneres alongside impressive beauty of nature, lost places, and back to the spheres of the anthropocene. Present, past, and eternity accompany the travellers until the triumphant sounds of Zone 112 fade out.
Moments // Elements is a beautiful cinematic and atmospheric journey across Europe and into the listeners’ minds. Abstrakt Lake‘s third longplayer is a meditative and salutogenetic experience.
Press materials by courtesy of Bruno Karnel
