Lead sheets, volume one
SEK 120Fourteen of my pieces as lead sheets: melody, chords and a note on tempo, for saxophone, keyboard or any instrument you like.
Twenty records of slow music.
Gothenburg · since 2005 · all free to stream
- 2026Fog Sessions2026 · Harbour Room RecordsHarbour Room RecordsAlbum
- 2025A Slow Room2025 · Harbour Room RecordsHarbour Room RecordsAlbum
- 2025Lead Sheets, Volume One2025 · Self-releasedSelf-releasedSheet music
- 2024Ice Light2024 · TapehouseTapehouseEP
- 2024Patchbay2024 · TapehouseTapehouseEP
- 2023Birch Hours2023 · Nordlys EditionsNordlys EditionsAlbum
- 2022Tape Loop Winter2022 · TapehouseTapehouseEP
- 2021The Window Record2021 · Harbour Room RecordsHarbour Room RecordsAlbum
- 2020Live in the Harbour Room2020 · Harbour Room RecordsHarbour Room RecordsLive album
- 2019Cardigan Weather2019 · Self-releasedSelf-releasedAlbum
Live
The next show
Doors at seven. Come early for the new songs.
Saturday, November 14 · 7:00 PM
Save my spotWork with me
Working together
Most of my time is for my own records. A little is for other people’s, by inquiry.
Session playing
Saxophone and synth on your record, played in my room or in yours. A half day · two takes of each part · files by the next day.
from SEK 2,500Music for film and installations
Slow, spare scores and sound for short films and gallery rooms. A call about the work · a first sketch · stems and a final mix.
from SEK 15,000A private concert
A quiet solo set for a gallery, a small hall or a living room. About 50 minutes · my own sound system · travel in Sweden included.
from SEK 8,000
Downloads
Lead sheets and a course
The pages I write the music from, and how I build the sounds.
Patching slow music
SEK 690Eight lessons on building long, quiet pieces from a small modular synth and a tape loop, at your own pace.
About
Hello, I’m Orvar
I started on saxophone at twelve in a school band in Gothenburg, and found the first synth in a friend's basement a few years later. Most of my records come from the same small room, with a tape machine, a window onto the harbour and a lot of rain.
I write the music as lead sheets before I record it, which is why they can be sold: a plain page of melody and chords that anyone with a horn or a keyboard can play slowly.