Thirty-five studio albums is a number that stops most conversations before they start. For Igor Keller, it’s simply the current count. Under the Longboat name, the Seattle-based composer has spent decades building a catalog that now exceeds 500 songs — one that spans electronic blues, jazz-influenced pop, film scoring sensibilities, and full orchestral production. Album […]
Longboat Examines Structural Loss on Absentia — And It Feels Uncomfortably Current
There are albums about heartbreak. There are albums about grief. And then there’s Absentia — an album that zooms out. Longboat’s latest release doesn’t frame loss as a private tragedy. Instead, it studies it as a system. Careers collapse. Buildings disappear. Elections shift power. Fortunes evaporate. Identity erodes. Across Absentia, loss isn’t just emotional — […]