Folkemusikk for unge strykere - Aktivitetshefte 1

Kattyglø-visa, vokal

Lova, Lova Line, vokal

Best times

Paris

Må jeg stå opp

stay

Not Alone

Its been a while, a few years actually, since my last upload here on SoundCloud. There are various reasons why, and to sum it all up - life happened.

Anywho.. since I use this platform for sharing my sketches, I choose to share a new version of a song previously uploaded (7years ago) this time. I’ve adjusted the tempo and changed the chorus a tiny bit eager to add a kind of “bluegrass-inspired choir”. You might have to use your imagination to “hear” what I mean 😉 

I dropped the “honkey-tonk-piano” and added acoustic guitar-solo instead, thinking that suits this version of the song better. I also dropped the stump-box, the tenor-banjo and all the rhythm instruments used int the previous version. The “fake-bass”, using an iPad was also “fired” from this version. To try to make a kind of “break”, since there is no bridge, in the song I added a mouth-harp in the “nearly-acapella”-part of one chorus after the guitar-solo.
 
I recorded this version approximately in the same way as the previous version. I started with the lead vocal and my Cordoba Iberia C7-CE guitar. Then did various recordings of my guitars, using both my Cordoba and my T-guitar (HD-28) with a “mix and combo” so to speak, using my L.R.Baggs venue D.I.-box  and/or through iRig Acoustic Stage. Trying this way to make a rich guitar sound as before. You can also hear my T-mandolin, as it filled in nicely both rhythm wise and sound wise.

I’ve already mentioned using the mouth-harp and the attempt to create some kind of Polyphonic choir in the “bluegrass genre”. Adding also a track for the guitar-solo, the whole mix added up to 17 tracks, although some of them are copies used for panning when mixing.

The mixing part at the end of each recording is not my cup of tea, as most of you probably know now. My recordings are mainly to give an idea on how my songs can be played.

All my T-instruments are custom-made for me by an excellent local guitar builder named Ragnar Thorsteinsen (T-instrumenter, Elverum).

My demos are simply "black and white sketches" of a painting that needs color. I will leave it to the musicians and the singers who are better in the craft than I am, to colorize the “damn” thing 😉

Feel free to comment. Enjoy 😊

I told you so (v2)

In The Midst Of The War

Snow is falling - 23:11:2025, 18.08.m4a

Get well soon John Prine! We need you and your music! 
Hope you all like this cover :) 

Singing: Ole-André Sjøgren and Stine Andreassen from The Northern Belle

In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine and Iris DeMent cover)

This is my music sketchbook. Some of the songs I've made during the years, will be published here. My demos are simply "black and white sketches" of a painting that needs colours. I'll leave the colouring to the musicians and singers who are better than me :-)This place is used to give you an idea of how the songs could sound like.
I'm a singer-songwriter, although maybe more a songwriter than a singer;-) I've been writing songs since the late 80's, some with norwegian lyrics, some with english lyrics. I'm a rookie when it comes to learning to use Sonar LE on a Surface Pro3 with a Tascam US-2x2 along with various instruments, mostly guitars. I'll use Soundcloud to upload demos of my songs, hoping to get feedback and useful tip about my songs and recordings. Hope you all enjoy my music :-)

I told you so (v2)

tRerik