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About the album The Quiet Ache:

There’s a peculiar weight to “arriving”—to living the life you’ve always imagined, yet still feeling the subtle ache of something missing. The joy of fulfillment is often followed by a quiet yearning, a sense that something is still just out of reach.

The Quiet Ache, Blurstem’s ninth full-length album from Minneapolis producer Chris Bartels (also known for his work as Elskavon, Olma, and vocal projects Dellwood and Bora York), dives deep into the tension between contentment and longing. In this album, Bartels explores the delicate balance between fulfillment and yearning, blending intimate, emotional voicings with expansive atmospheres.

Bartels shapes that feeling into sound—soft-focus ambience wrapped around plaintive piano, textures rising and dissolving like half-formed memories. The music is deeply layered yet weightless, built from stretched tones, ghostly echoes of past work, and the slow movement of chords that ache in their stillness. It recalls Riceboy Sleeps—Jónsi & Alex’s iconic album that first made Bartels fall in love with ambient music—in its warmth and patience, but carries a colder undercurrent—something solitary. It also draws emotional inspiration from The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel about quiet perseverance and struggle—where heroism is tempered by loneliness. Or in the thrilling and complicated life of Roald Amundsen, whose pioneering Arctic explorations were marked by triumph and solitude, heroic feats, and the bittersweet cost of pushing ever onward—in short: finding everything, and yet still searching.

The album serves as a soundtrack for those in-between moments—the arrival, the fulfillment, and the yearning that always seems to follow. The Quiet Ache is not an answer, but a place to sit with the question. It’s for those who know the feeling of standing in the dream, gazing past it toward something just out of view.

∎ MUSIC ∎
• All my music → https://chrisbartels.com
• Elskavon → https://campsite.bio/elskavon
• Blurstem → https://campsite.bio/blurstem
• Bora York → https://campsite.bio/borayork
• Glass Echoes → https://campsite.bio/glassechoes
• Olma → https://ffm.bio/olma

∎ CONNECT ∎
• Elskavon Website → https://www.elskavon.com
• Bandcamp → https://elskavon.bandcamp.com/
• Email List → http://bit.ly/ElskavonEmailList
• Anthem Falls Music Website → http://anthemfallsmusic.com