Layers of Afternoon

We Begin Anew (feat. Scott Moore)

When Everything Else Fails

I Wonder Where You Are

Sometimes I wake up in a different bed, in a different city, at a different time. Everything around me is new and there is excitement about all the possibilities. But there’s also a bit of anxiety and maybe even dread. My anchor is gone, and I am drifting with the current, afloat among the unfamiliar waters. This is when I turn back towards music. Music that makes me feel like I am safe, serene and cosy. Music that I often call my home. This is precisely what I hear in the soft piano keys of the Norwegian pianist and composer Øystein Skar, who has announced his upcoming debut album, titled Hem. I may not know him as a person, and yet his playing makes me calm. I may not truly know his story, and yet his story’s somehow mine. And while I navigate the stormy weather, this ray of sunshine points the way. In these turbulent and truly anxious times, I turn back towards home. I turn back towards music.

Composed during winter’s embrace in his woodland home outside Oslo (I imagine a hushed sanctuary of a snow-draped retreat), the piece embodies the album’s central theme of homecoming – not merely to a physical place, but to essential truths long carried within. In its patient build and emotional resolution, “Levva” invites listeners into the intimate geography of Skar’s personal mindspace. The piece stands as testimony to what becomes possible when an artist, after years of outward exploration, turns the compass needle toward the territories of the heart.

"Levva, meaning “to live well,” is a longer, more experimental track blending classical, improvisational, and electronic music. Anchored by a synth arpeggiation and a piano melody, the piece has two parts with the second evolving into an expansive, percussive, and dreamy landscape created with an array of synths. For me, it’s about embracing strength through authenticity." — Øystein Skar

TRACK PREMIERE : Øystein Skar - Levva

We finished a new Mint Julep track yesterday! Hope you enjoy it! :)💜 
https://heliosmusic.bandcamp.com/track/holding-on

Truth be told, I’ve been holding on to more than just moments - 
A new Mint Julep album has been quietly waiting in the wings.
Hoping to share it with you in the next few months! :)
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I’ve been holding on to moments
That I always thought would never leave
Every step, a soft reminder
Of all the places we can’t reach

Just your hands, like water
Pouring slow into my soul
So come to me unspoken
Like a dream you can’t explain

Wrote our names in summer rain
Now I trace those same old patterns again
Calling out, you say my name
As if you never went away

Just your hands, like water
Pouring slow into my soul
So come to me unspoken
Like a dream you can’t explain

Holding On

A Dawning

Bedrock (feat. Sandrayati)

Vogelsanger I

Test recording on my tiny vintage steinway.. 


Opus for Yohaku (test recording)

🤍 Meditation 555.
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Thomas James White - Meditation 555

in the bleak midwinter

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I Wonder Where You Are

Benjamin Gustafsson