Harald Lassen, Veslemøy Narvesen & Bardur Reinert Poulsen - Opplevelser fra N (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

On the way to the next Balans project, I needed to do something else. Like breaking up with your boyfriend and sleeping with someone opposite, then hopefully seeing everything clearly again. Where would I go? I have been looking for the right entry to combine my music with the deep feelings and connections I have had with N since I was a small child.

When I came across Deep Ecology and Ecosophy a number of years ago, it was experienced as a revelation. My view, my perspectives and feelings in the face of everything outside myself were fundamentally changed and the experiences in N that I had experienced strongly as a child now made sense as an adult. It was a kind of profound reunion. Once again I was not only surrounded by trees, animals, plants, sea and mountains, but also surrounded by friends and safe relationships, just as I experienced as an 8-year-old. Everything lives. Everything is connected. Everything concerns me. Everything is me. I am everything.. Not I – it, but I – you. You are me.

It dawned on me: improvising has many similarities to the processes in N. It is a collective improvisation where the various sub-organisms are woven into a larger whole. Dependent on each other. A common (rhythm) current. If one falls out, the whole thing falters and desperately seeks other ways of survival. They talk together, relate to each other and depend on each other. Both the music and N are a living process that is always on the way to something that has never been before. Unseen and unheard, but still recognizable.

Loved and threatened.

We should meet N with emotion, wonder, play and joy. Just as we must when we are going into the improvisation.

The best way I could incorporate N into my music was to improvise completely freely with other living beings. The two musicians Veslemøy Narvesen (drums) and Bárður Reinert Poulsen (bass) I had never played with before and were an obvious choice with their fearless and open approach to completely open music.

I would also use fairly common formats such as sax trio and piano trio as an image of exactly N; just as we know the sound of what a trio sounds like, we know roughly what a tree will look like if we plant one, with a tree crown at the top, a trunk in the middle and roots in the ground. But exactly its shape and appearance are influenced by many factors in the environment and at the moment.

Beyond the basic idea of ​​music as an ecological process, I could not ask the musicians for anything more than to be themselves and to play the moment.

Nevertheless, the tracks ended up giving strong associations to experiences, meetings, moods and experiences I have had in and with N. This reflects the titles. Pre-composed Con Arne was intended as a concrete starting point for the music, and has been included because Arne deserves it, but mostly because it turned out great.

Tracklist:
01. Dyp reunion
02. Du viste meg skogen
03. Ubeskrivelig syn
04. Gutts fred i solituden
05. Con Arne
06. Løp!
07. Shhh om vi er helt stille så kanskje vi ser de
08. Det kommer folk–
09. Vind fra havet i furu


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