The Dream

I want to release an album the day I turn fifty.

A whole album of my own songs. In Norwegian. Sung in my own dialect. Rounding up a band with other musicians. Becoming a Bergen band. Getting to know people I don't already know. Trying to be creative. Shaping an expression. All of it together. Being a bunch of people making music side by side. That's the dream.

I've been working quietly on my own music for a couple of years. Alongside my other band. The ones I got to know while studying. Every possibility was open back then. Before life took hold in earnest. We've known each other half a lifetime now. We've done so incredibly many fun things. When I started making music in Norwegian, everything became more naked. More open. A little harder to hide behind than the English words and sentences. The stories suddenly felt a bit more real. Closer. Now I want to let them out. That's the dream.