NEW WORKS

Wisdom of the No

The first sketch I made of this composition

 It came as a spontaneous idea while improvising on the piano. 

 I tried to figure out a drum beat that would make it less melancholic, and found that I liked to emphasise a lift before the 1, like this

I tried to expand the form of the song while sticking to the idea of starting each new section with the keyboard melody starting on a #5, and I found that this use of + chords made it easy to make drastic modulations without breaking continuity. The B part is an ascending chain of major chords, moving in major thirds = a major #5 chord. Making the melody was the most difficult part. The keyboard melody is essentially a blues scale, and it was hard to steer my ears away from that. I needed it to go somewhere else, a little less obvious, and I needed it to be rather slow moving, to contrast the carrousel movement of the piano part. It was of course the whole tone scale that made the puzzle come together. It fitted with the use of #5 and added a sense of calm. After that, the lyrics were written very fast. I'm not sure what they mean, and they're not at all finished, but I find that it's a song about a certain kind of "wisdom" that you're in contact with when you're very young, disregarding the authority of those older. 

 This is a premix of the version we recorded recently

Bliss

This one came from the archive. I liked the simplicity of it. 

 In rehearsing it for the studio, I suggested Anders Vestergaard would try a calypso kind of beat. I found a line in an old diary that seemed to fit and borrowed the idea of an abrupt melody from the Tirzahsong ‘Gladly’.

In the Feast

The still unfinished lyric is a comment to the way refugees are being treated in Denmark. 

 I want to create a B part as a counterpoint to the descending harmonic, and to break the pleasant atmosphere. Here is the rough version from the studio. 

Night by Day

The melody and lyrics came at the same time in this sketch. 

“As night gone by by day” I was just playing with some words, but pretty soon I realised it means experiencing internal darkness. Working with the song I found it fitting to stick with the one idea of the chords moving up in thirds. I find this version to be a bit too stiff, not really alive enough. But it is a good demo.  

Mangrove Round / Tell it like it is

This sketch came out of an alternative guitar tuning. This first recording is a

nice dry place.

In this work in progress recording from the studio the lyrics make no sense. The simplicity is in part inspired by Kurt Vile. Perhaps it would be cool to do a really long version. I could hear this form repeat itself maybe four times. 

Glacier

This composition came in one piece as an improvisation. 

 I hear it as a kind of blues with lots of space. I got the idea for a Tony Allen like beat that Anders is playing. 

Laura Void

This is another song that has come out of the EoD work. I like the contrast of the two parts. 

In the final part, I’m back to the #5 chord.