Late Summer Sequence - 2020 Danish Cat Box Corp. Records 4-track CD

Even though I have been making music for over two decades, this is my first album under own name. It feels kind of naked, and also a little like coming out.

First there was a series of field recordings of a subtly personal nature, like the railroad tunnel on September Sleep captured the first time I visited my boyfriend's hometown. It was a rainy day, and he was showing me the marshy lake area where he used to play as a kid. And another lake, showing up on October Song, where I recorded the wind in the reeds and the sounds of the water birds a sunny windy day we were visiting my parents. And at some point it dawned on me that he had actually been present while making all the field recordings used on these tracks.

There was also a sudden renewed interest again in playing (as opposed to programming and sequencing) instruments - the piano, my beloved Moog Sub 37, my equally beloved Hammond organ - which all lead to something more melodic than my music usually tend to be. I started out working on an album mostly about texture, and then I ended up with something as alien as a modest synth solo on October Song.

It gradually also became clear that waves were a structuring principle, from the slow simple breathing bass patterns lying beneath most tracks to the way the textures overlap and recede. Not to mention the various lakes featured and the sounds of lapping waves on August Drone recorded on a small secret beach in a Danish suburb another hot summer day.

So while I in general do not subscribe to the idea that music need to be about something, nor that context necessarily add anything to the listening experience, I think this album actually is about something: The gradual change of summer into autumn. The slow breath-like movement of waves. And of being together with someone you love. Which is all very new things in my music. I hope you find a bit of peace here.
 

Tracklisting.

1. July Heat 13:28
2. August Drone 22:00
3. September Sleep 21:08
4. October Song 13:45