© 2015 Johannes R. Volden, All Rights Reserved

This is probably the most 'hipster' song I've recorded to date - it was recorded with my very first guitar; one that I got for Christmas from my parents back in 2010, and it has 4 year old strings, with a partially broken high e-string. Also, it's tuned to E-G#-B-F#-B-C#, something that I've never seen before. I started playing some William Fitzsimmons songs that used a strange alternate tuning, and ended up re-tuning a couple of more strings and ended up with this. After playing around with it I made a few songs with the tuning. This song is inspired by the sound of e.g. Nick Drake, Sufjan Stevens and Ben Howard. The thmbnail photo is my own (from instagram: @johvolden), as always. 

I'm Not The One Who [ORIGINAL] (demo)

guitar -  Aleks Weiss, Henrik Nytun
bass - Andreas Tenold Bergo
produced by Andreas Tenold Bergo
photo: the wonderful dog Hildegard von Bingen

For Now

Hold on until your head is under water, that's where we'll meet
Not until your lungs are filled with water will your breathe

Hold on until the weight of all this worry has pulled you down
Not until you've reached rock bottom do you know you've drowned

Hold on and take a look up to the surface where they are free
All they'll ever know are bubbles bursting quietly

The sky is the limit when you die, baby not before
The sky is the limit when you die, baby not before
I'd rather take the ocean, rather take your blues
To the bottom of the ocean, that's where I'll take you

Deep down in your stomach if you feel it then you know
There's much more to life than what you lose when you let go

(Dabedidabeda) yes I'm blue... Yes I'm blue, so are you

The bottom of the ocean, give you me your blue
Mmmm

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Just an attempt to make some cute jazz sounds

Hello Sweet

singer/songwriter
alternative folk
oslo

johannes.volden@gmail.com

I'm Not The One Who [ORIGINAL] (demo)

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