The Shores Of The Afterlife On Acoustic Guitar
The Shores Of The Afterlife On Acoustic Guitar album cover

The Shores Of The Afterlife On Acoustic Guitar

An intense, continuous, improvised performance split into parts with complicated titles that offer a little bit of context. The performance is inspired (can be blamed) on a period of high emotional intensity. All the heavy feelings of this period were offloaded into the music, and the final result has both an agitative but also a cathartic effect on the mind. A mix of beautiful and unnerving sounds cross the boundary between music and noise back and forth, in a similar way that the mind bounces sometimes between certainty and confusion, hopefulness and trepidation.

The tracks were split to provide some context in their titles and an easier way to go back to parts that may have resonated more with an attentive listener, but are meant to be listened to as a full uninterrupted piece.

Recorded at home, with Røde NT2, processed with UA Spark plugins: LA-2 compressor, Pure plate reverb, Oxide tape recorder and Hitsville EQ.

The album cover is a picture of me pretending to play the guitar, fully dressed with a leather jacket and shoes on, in my room where I've been living for the longest stretch of time since I left my country of birth, with quite a lot of stuff scattered all over which is not so nice but it is interesting in a storytelling sense. The picture is distorted with a weird fisheye effect and placed in the hole of my guitar where the strings act as prison bars. Behind, a sunny and wet window lets in a lot of light, while some impro- and jazz posters hover ominously.

Hope you enjoy this music and hope it gives you something to think about!