True character is shown not in how love begins, but in how it ends. Her cruelty becomes her ultimate evidence.

Final Proof

 "Requiem for ÖsterKnut" is a funeral mass in music form — a cycle of hymns written from betrayal, rage, and grief, transformed into mercy, confession, and release.
The album traces the arc of a single year:
Prologue – innocence and fragile beginnings (ÖsterKnut, Ashes Before Dawn, The Garden and the Lie).
Betrayal – the collapse, deceit, and fury (The Theatre of Lies, Signed Under Duress, The River Takes Them All).
Reckoning – confronting scars, jealousy, rage, and confession (Five Stones Down the River, Benediction of Rage, No Shadows to Hide).
Mercy – closing in light, accepting scars, and carrying forward love in transformed form (The Eternal Gift, Love Changes Shape, The Last Light I Carry).
The music blends western-soul, gospel lament, and big-band brass with cinematic depth: trombone solos, gospel choirs, haunting choir shouts, and orchestral strings. Female-only vocals (ethereal and grounded) weave through the requiem, echoing both fragility and defiance.
This is not a love album. It is a burial. A requiem for a broken knot, and a hymn for anyone scarred by betrayal but still choosing to rise.

The Last Light I Carry

The Eternal Gift

What Is Love? (Opus) is a cinematic western-soul anthem — a track that asks and answers the question of love with grandeur, grit, and grace. Built on a foundation of piano, tremolo guitar, and upright bass, the song grows into a widescreen soundscape with bold brass fanfares, gospel-tinged choir shouts, orchestral strings, and the haunting voice of a nyckelharpa weaving through the mix.
Lyrically, it strips love of clichés and offers it as action — a vow, a daily choice, a bridge that binds many into one. Its message is universal and secular, written to inspire: love is not just a feeling, but the courage to rise, to stay, and to rebuild.

This is not minimalism — this is a soul anthem at the edge of a western horizon, full of drama, heartbreak, and redemption. The choir and brass don’t just support; they lead the emotion, creating a track that feels as vast as the desert sky and as intimate as a single hand extended in kindness.

For Curators: What Is Love? (Opus) combines the emotional weight of gospel with the cinematic sweep of orchestral soul. It is motivational, inclusive, and timeless — a track designed to resonate in playlists and on radio alike, where its hook, “Love is a verb, a vow, a way — Do. Stay. Rise.” becomes both mantra and refrain.

What is Love? (Opus)

Ashes and Brass: The Småland Second Line Jazz Funeral Parade is a dark, cinematic journey where Southern Gothic murder ballads collide with the haunted landscapes of Småland. Inspired by the ritual power of New Orleans jazz funerals and the raw storytelling tradition of the blues, the album unfolds as a requiem for betrayal, damnation, and release.
Across eight tracks, the record moves like a funeral procession: “Seven Curses” delivers judgment one curse at a time, with choirs chanting numbers like a ritual. “The Devil’s Bride” reimagines the archetype of Jezebel as a soul sold to darkness. “No Mercy at the River” turns the water itself into a judge that refuses to cleanse. “The Rumors Were True” gives voice to the whispers of a village, making gossip into prophecy. At the album’s heart stands “Ashes in Her Mouth”, a heavy dirge where brass, strings, and choirs thunder in a curse that cannot be undone.
From there, the story widens into a vow of vengeance in “Tenfold Interest”, and into catharsis with “No More Ghosts”, a declaration of survival and release. Finally, the title track “The Småland Second Line Jazz Funeral Parade” closes the procession as an instrumental epilogue, merging Swedish church bells, brass fanfares, and gospel cadences into one final march into darkness.
This is not just an album, but a Southern Gothic requiem: brass, organ, gospel choirs, strings, and funeral drums creating a soundscape that feels both like a New Orleans funeral march and a Småland churchyard at dusk. A work that speaks to betrayal, judgment, damnation – and the hope of walking away free from ghosts.

Seven Curses

The Panther’s Flame: An Homage to Rustaveli
A tribute to Georgia’s national poet by The House of Christian Eusterqnute
Eight centuries ago, in the golden age of Georgia, a poet gave the world a masterpiece. Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160 – after 1220) wrote The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, an epic that celebrates love, loyalty, friendship, and universal human dignity. Written in the reign of Queen Tamar, it remains as relevant today as it was in the 1200s.
This album is a homage to Rustaveli and Georgia. His quatrains are woven directly into gospel-soul compositions, where choirs, brass, and strings lift his timeless words into a new soundscape. Lines like “He who has not tasted love does not know what life is” or “What jewel is greater than a friend? None” stand at the heart of these songs.
It is only a glimpse — we draw on small portions of Rustaveli’s vast epic of 1,600 quatrains. His work is far greater than any musical adaptation could capture. This is a humble offering, a flame borrowed from his eternal torch.

Rustaveli’s dream endures.
Love is the crown of the human race.


რვა საუკუნის წინ, საქართველოს ოქროს ხანაში, ერთმა პოეტმა კაცობრიობას შემოუნახა შედევრი. შოთა რუსთაველი (დაახლ. 1160 – 1220-ის შემდეგ) შექმნა ვეფხისტყაოსანი, ეპოსი, რომელიც სავსეა სიყვარულის, მეგობრობის, ერთგულებისა და ადამიანის ღირსების იდეალებით. თამარ მეფის მეფობის ხანაში დაწერილი, იგი დღესაც ისეთივე აქტუალურია, როგორც XIII საუკუნეში.
ეს ალბომი არის ხოტბა რუსთაველსა და საქართველოს. მისი ოთხსტრიქონიანი სტროფები გადმოცემულია სოულისა და გოსპელის ჟღერადობაში, სადაც გუნდები, საყვირები და სიმები ახალ სინათლეს ანიჭებენ მის საუკუნო სიტყვებს. ფრაზები, როგორიცაა: „ვისაც სიყვარული არა უგემნია, სიცოცხლე არა უნახავს“ და „მეგობარზე ძვირფასი ძვირფასეულობა არ არსებობს“ — დგას თითოეული სიმღერის გულში.
ეს მხოლოდ მცირე მონაჭერია — რუსთაველის ეპოსი 1600-ზე მეტ სტროფს მოიცავს. მისი სიდიადე ბევრად აღემატება ყოველგვარ მუსიკალურ ადაპტაციას. ეს არის მდაბალი შესაწირი, ნაპერწკალი მისი მარადიული ალიდან.
რუსთაველის ოცნება ცოცხლობს.
სიყვარული არის გვირგვინი კაცობრიობისა.

Bridges, Not Walls

Brother Eternal

Rustaveli’s Light (Intro)

Wine and Light of Georgia

Love Beyond the Crown

In the hush after the storm, the forest begins to breathe again.
Northern Soul: November Air is a collection of songs about that stillness — when the air clears, the work is done, and mercy feels like wind through pine.
Written and produced in the cinematic folk-soul language of THOCE, these tracks blend acoustic guitar, felt piano, brass, nyckelharpa, and strings into warm, human stories of endurance and grace.
Each song is a reflection of quiet strength: the sound of light returning to cold air, of hearts mending in their own time.
No grandeur, no noise — just the pulse of the North rediscovering its soul.
Listen slowly.
Breathe.
November air is enough.

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