Multi-instrumentalist Tobias Hellkvist (b.1984) was born and raised in the south of Sweden, just outside Malmö. He's a songwriter/soundartist/producer and has been making music since his early teens. Some of his works is just him with a guitar and some of it is computerbased soundscapes in the ambient/drone genre.

In early 2007, he finished his first official album called Transports, which mostly contained electroacoustic/ambient material. This album was self-released and produced by Tobias himself. He also got some attention for making an acoustic cover version of the song "Step Aside", originally written and performed by the danish electronic/postrock band Efterklang.

In the summer of 2008 he released his second album, Sides. It's an album where Tobias continues to explore different sounds and textures. At the same time he shows a completely new approach to his songwriting, involving lots of different instruments such as piano, accordeon, harmonica, flute, vibraphone, glockenspiel, vocals and drums. This results in a more diverse album than his previous.

About a month later, a split EP with scottish act Metronomes (aka Al Paxton of Stapleton) was released, containing three songs by each artist. One of Hellkvist's contributions was an acoustic cover version of the song "Ships of the North Atlantic", originally by Stapleton. Vintervarm (from Sides) was also featured, as well as Always Problems, a previously unreleased track made exclusively for this split.

The first collaborative project Tobias participated in was with another swedish drone artist, the Gothenburg-based Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words (aka Thomas Ekelund). They were introduced by Avi Roig from Seattle, the man behind the non-profit web publication It's A Trap!. This introduction resulted in a 25 minute piece entitled White/Grey/Black. This was later released on Roig's own IAT.MP3 label as a free download.

In early 2008, Tobias hooked up with longtime friend Ola Pålsson, after talking about working together for a long time. After about a year of composing songs in Tobias apartment in Malmö, they started to search for musicians to play with, which turned out to be the hardest part. But after a couple of months they had assembled a group of people, and the band Pixie Carnation was born. They went on to record their debut EP Fresh Poems in February 2009, and it was self-released three months later.

Simultaneously, Tobias had been working on his third fullength album, entitled Evolutions. This album was actually taking its form pretty fast after the release of Sides, but since most of his focus was spent on Pixie Carnation during this time, the album kind of fell into the shadows.

After being heavily delayed, Tobias put his last touches on Evolutions on november 15th 2009. Anna Johansson (who also made the artwork for Sides), had been listening to rough cuts of the album pretty much since the start of the creation process, and created beautiful artwork for the new record.

The wrap up of Evolutions was made just before Tobias would do his very first live performance, in the Trinitakis church in Copenhagen on november 17th. Also playing was the danish soundartist Peter Jörgensen, who had helped Tobias alot in the process of taking his music out to perform in front of a live audience.