Song for a Gorgeous Blonde - Ingrid

​Song for a Gorgeous Blonde

Ingrid
self-released; 2025

By Jamie Funk
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Dino DiMuro has spent decades working just outside the industry’s center of gravity, balancing a career in Los Angeles sound design with a stubborn allegiance to the cassette underground that shaped his earliest work. That long memory informs his collaboration with Song for a Gorgeous Blonde, a discreet experimental trio from Gothenburg whose steady stream of releases on DiMurotapes pairs prolific output with a cultivated obscurity.

Björn Eklund handles keyboards and electronics, Lars Karlsson moves between guitar and bass, and Anja Blomgren supplies beats, percussion, and voice. They convene between separate lives and professions, treating the project as a rotating workshop of fragments and textures where authorship blurs and identity stays partially concealed.

“Ingrid” distills that approach into an instrumental that rewards close attention. The first time I heard it, I registered a faint new age glow, though the label never fully settles on the music. The track invites immersion through detail and the type of song you will discover more with repeated listening. Small electronic flourishes flicker at the edges, tones drift in and out of focus, and the mix leaves enough negative space for each element to breathe.

There is motion here, a kinetic undercurrent that keeps the piece buoyant even as the instrumentation remains light and airy. The mood stays playful and unburdened, sidestepping grand emotional statements in favor of texture and movement. It is the kind of piece that feels a bit 3D.

The song allows subtle shifts in tone and rhythm to register as meaningful events. By the end, I found myself impressed and especially thought the sound design was well done..

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