Previously, Tor Lundvall had introduced the haunting album, Sleeping & Hiding, and the resilient The Seasons Unfold box set. As a counterweight, Tor Lundvall assembled, The Shipyard, a thematic instrumental album capturing the artist's threshold between the real and the imaginary. The Shipyard was recorded during the dramatic season change-over of 2009/10, during which time Lundvall was immersing himself in portrait studies of local maritime themes and nautical life at the docks. This instrumental collection of songs composed the soundtrack to the final renderings of these conceptual ideas put side by side, for which semblance he is most known for.
