I started writing this song on my 20th birthday, and then I forgot it for a long time. It was time to finish it up. Now, when it's done, I'm glad it took me a while.

Tracks And Traces (demo)

I wrote this song last fall. Everybody; one time or more in life, need to take a short mental break, to take a deep breath when problems rise, and calm down to gain the necessary perspective to deal with them - and from there take a more positive and realistic view of what needs one have for a better future. After playing it in a lot of different ways, I think that's what the song is for me. This is a mix of two guitars, overdubbet vocal from the second verse and harmonized a second voice from the third verse. Hope you like it!

Misty Rainy Kind (demo)

Neil Young is one of my absolute favorites. This song was made in the first half of the 1970s, often used for sessions with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and recorded on Young's classic solo album «Comes a time» in 1978. Strangely enough, I haven't used to play this song myself, even though Neil Young is an artist I like to cover. But I heard it on «Neil Young Archives Volume II: 1972–1976» yesterday, and couldn't get it out of my head. So I got it into a harmonized mix instead. I hope you like it.

Human Highway [Neil Young Cover] (demo)

What creates a tyrant? It certainly depends on the ability one has to control others. Mixing a religion, love and unattainable expectations, with, for example, being a Renaissance king with a great self-image and paranoid traits, the chances are high that power may end in tyranny. Especially if one is unable to control what one has closest to oneself, oneself and what one loves.

I have always been very interested in British history, and especially fascinated by the War of Roses and Tudor eras. And of course also by King Henry VIII, his six wives, conflict with the Pope, and desperate desire to have a son who could inherit the throne after him.

«The Ballad of Harry» is a bit about him. And a little about what I think is important to each and every one of us. It begins and ends with Greensleeves, which was played at Harry's court - where the myth is that he composed the song himself.

The Ballad Of Harry (demo)

One of my favorites by The Beach Boys. It's not easy to make the Beach Boys harmonic blend, so I made one of my own.

Don't Worry Baby

British Robin Proper-Sheppard from the indie band Sophia visited Bergen when I studied there in the 1990s. It left its mark. Ingenious, beautiful melodies and groundbreaking sad lyrics. "So Slow" is from the album "Fixed Water" (1996).

So Slow

A little summer song. Intentionally, the plan was to make a classical country-sound. The result came out a little bit different, since I'm so into making harmonies in lack of more instruments or a backing band.

Morning Dew

Another favorite by Neil Young, from the album by the same name (1978).

Comes A Time

Run To Me (Acoustic Demo - Bee Gees Cover)

Just a simple tribute to some of the greatest composers of our time; The Bee Gees, who topped the charts for three decades as a band, and who gave so many other artists top charts at the same time. Typically, this song is best known from the duet between Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. 

The Bee Gees recorded the song themselves for «The Record – Their Greatest Hits» in 2001, performed more or less solo by Robin Gibb – where he also included the chorus from Pras' «Ghetto Superstar,» which is made over the same chorus as «Islands in The Stream.»

Islands In The Stream

This is the first demo of a new song I'm working on. I hope to see you smile again.

Caught Your Smile

Strollin' (Prince cover)

The Worst Thing That You Do To The Ones You Love

Shadowland

I Think We Will Get Along

A dirty demo with mixed guitars, and telephone vocals.

Oh Yeah! [Roxy Music Cover]

A little piece of a demo of Motorpsycho’s magical opener of their album Deamon Box. Will be continued with the right wording - I say the one THAT went away. Of course, it's the one WHOwent away.

The One Who Went Away (Demo, cover Motorpsycho)

On the day of the recording, June 25 2023, it was one year since the terrorist attack against Oslo Pride and the right to be who you are. The wonderful band Chumbawamba made a song about homophobia that I have long felt to record myself. I don't know if I'm giving the band or the cause the right credit and attention, but this is genuine. Freedom, equality and tolerance - from here to eternity.

MJUT

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