You can order ‘Pre-Lapsarian’ from Bandcamp here
Release date: 1st May 2026
Track listing:
Pre-Lapsarian
Who would have thought! ‘North’ is 28…
I recorded the material between 1996 and 1997. I found myself living in the vocal booth of a studio in Stockholm, with access to pretty good equipment—none of it mine. This was pre-laptop and pre–direct-to-hard-drive recording, so all the tracking was done on a Mac Classic running Cubase with MIDI, alongside Akai and Emax samplers. A few synths and guitars floated around the studio as well. It was all mixed on a Yamaha 01 onto an 8-track (7 with the sync signal) ADAT, then transferred digitally to DAT.
I met Mike from Touch in a bar and quickly biked home to get the master DAT at his request. It was released a few months later.
To celebrate this, I recorded a new companion— The track draws on field recordings of ice, snow, and wind from the Arctic, reworked through various digital processes. Thx Enjoy! (BJ Nilsen – Amsterdam April 2026)
Recorded and mixed at Odd Phasing and Echoes, Amsterdam, NL.
You can read a review in A Closer Listen here