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3. februar 2012
I BLOGGEN NEDENFOR
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Over de næste måneder skriver og indspiller jeg et album helt fra bunden.
Det er altid en spændende og nervepirrende process – og denne gang meget anderledes fra arbejdet på mine tidligere plader, fordi jeg ikke er på farten. For første gang i 10 år er jeg ét sted under hele processen. Angstprovokerende i sig selv!
Du kan følge lidt med i rejsen via bloggen, hvor jeg vil forsøge at fortælle lidt om det hele og efterhånden, som vi kommer længere frem, præsentere musik-bidder og video fra studiet.
Jeg håber, det bliver fornøjelig læsning – og at du glæder dig til ny musik!
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3. februar 2012
… and all is still up in the air.
Only writing so far. A FUN mixture of things!
There’s been a fair bit of acoustic guitaring, VERY rough recordings into a dictaphone and equally rough recordings straight into the laptop.
All sounds too rough so far, otherwise I would have let you in on a few snippets, but there are good ideas there.
I have 10 songs now. They’re not completely done. They need to live with me for a little while before I can finish them.
I also need to know more about the album as a whole before each song will settle and find its place.
Little ideas will jump out here and there, likely on long walks or at the bottom of coffee cups, and help put them to bed.
Could take minutes, months, years, who knows.
There’s some pretty dark stuff in the pile but there’s also the extreme opposite.
For instance a hard pumped song about learning to dance!
A song that might force me to learn a few steps for the live shows. Oh dear, can you imagine?
3. februar 2012
The flow is good. I’m actually not finding it hard to write songs these days but I find it hard to write THE RIGHT songs!
A song has to feel right; for this time, for this album, and on some strange level has to fit the patchwork blanket of what I’ve written and recorded in the past.
These days I’m often writing something and thinking “3 years ago I would have LOVED this idea and dived right into it but now… it doesn’t feel right somehow”. I’m a butcher when it comes to killing darlings.
Funnily enough right now as I’m writing this, Friday midday, there’s a stranger at the other end of my living room playing a song, picking his acoustic guitar, singing softly and beautifully. I’m looking out at Esja bathed in sunlight, half covered in snow, feeling “the magic of music”, if I may allow myself a cheesy moment. Maybe the butcher should soften up a bit…
3. februar 2012
So yeah, I’ve actually moved to Iceland.
Seems like a wild thing to do but it was not a hard decision.
I spent last January here and couldn’t remember the last time I had felt so amazing and at peace.
“And if it’s this good at the darkest time of the year (and it IS dark) how amazing is it gonna be in the summer when the sun never sets?!”
I had only been here a week when I went and looked at a house for sale by the ocean.
Why not? Why not wake up every morning to a view of The North Atlantic Ocean, mountains and the low skyline of Reykjavik City?
I guess with all the travelling I’ve done over the past 10 years anywhere quickly feels like home.
So yup, I’m an immigrant now, trying to get the grasp of this island’s culture and trying to learn a new, frustratingly difficult, language.
It’s exciting! And the peace and quiet, along with the mystery and “edge” of these landscapes and people, is proving good for the enjoyment of writing.
This mountain is my new best friend and the first thing I see every morning.
Her name is Esja and I’m sure her quiet presence will inspire a few songs.
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