Genre : Dungeon Synth, Fantasy Ambient, Dark Ambient Country : Finland

Lovi is a Dungeon Synth / Dark Ambient project of Otso Mäensivu (ex-Haven in Shadows, ex-Shape of Despair), from Helsinki, Finland. The idea was to make background music for both a casual stroll in the forest and while playing your favourite fantasy/historical roleplaying game... or even for meditation.

Lovi is a word for the space in between supernatural and the natural, the world between the ancient and the present. The dark realm into which the mage sends you with his utterances. You can be lost there, and you can be found. It is the bridge and the chasm, the familiar trail you've never seen before.

DISCOGRAPHY

The Caverns of Lempo

eleased October 6, 2020

All music by Otso Mäensivu*
Logo and bandcamp artwork by Juha Takalo

*Except track 5, which is composed by Kenneth W. Arnold in 1988 for the Amiga version of Ultima V. It's not 100% accurate, but more like a personal take on the song that had a great impact on me in my youth.

Cover painting is a modified detail from Pekka Halonen's "Nainen veneessä" ("A woman in a boat", 1924)