This post marks that it‘s exactly 5 years since I wrote my first blog post! Which means that I’ve now presented new music, visual art and words, on this site, every Friday for the past 5 years, without any disruption. As promised!
“Moment” was written when I was 19-20 years old, basically to encourage myself. It lived in my mind, partly subconsciously for months before I finally decided to play it on an instrument and record it. There’s also a second part to the song, which will not be presented here.
Moment was meant to be released on my first solo album Evolver, which never happened. Even though I got nationwide distribution for the album, long before it was completed. However, I managed to release a taste of the album through a mini album called Evolver EP before my band broke up.
All of this reminds me about the fact that I’ve never written anything about the first song ever released in this project, which happened on the 22th of December in 2014. It seems appropriate to do it now.
I remember it was a dark snowy winter day in December, and I was on my way to rehearsals with my band “Woo”, but first I had to pick up a long awaited package at the post office. The package contained a brand new mobile recording studio, which was state of the art, at the time.
I remember it was snowing heavily and just as we sat down in the car (driven by my father) on our way to rehearsals, it was suddenly announced on the radio that an avalanche had blocked the road. So, with nothing else to do, I opened the package with the brand new studio, plugged in my electric 12-string guitar that I had brought for rehearsals, and improvised a situation-report that I called “A Day of Winter”. I then added some tracks with my house organ (which really was a concert organ, and the elephant in my mother’s living room) and the song was finished.
The song also reminds me of the everlasting inspiration I get from nature, especially the nature around where I grew up. Life is flatter without those mountains, and fjords. The seasons are so intense and present. The light and weather is so tangible.
One of my personal goals for the future, is to expose myself more to this inspiration source, that has been with me, wherever I go, both consciously and sub-consciously from the day that I was born.
Visual art by Anatoliy Akue