New year and first quarter overview
Happy New Year 2023. Here we go again. Another round. I like the feeling of a reboot when passing the winter solstice and going into a new year. The light is slowly returning and there’s a refreshed feeling of hope and focus. I usually spend some time on reflecting over the past year and making thoughts about the upcoming. Drafting out projects and plotting stuff in the calendar that have just been floating around in my mind or on the whiteboard. Now is a good time to find and give space for projects that is due to get concretised. To move them from the “Some day / Maybe” category to “Next action”.
So also this year. Although not quite ready with that yet, I’m starting to get a good overview of what the year might be serving. At least some of what is within my control. The two main buckets that I’ve been drafting on are music - in all the different shapes and forms that I’m fortunate enough to have a go at -, and gardening / self-sufficiency. Both very dear to me. And a good complement for each other. Music being more abstract and airy, gardening more concrete and earthy. Yin and yang.
These very days I’m finishing the scores and arrangements for Afenginn’s “Klingra album for a project that I’ll being doing with the Danish National Academy of Music in a few weeks. In a week I’ll be rehearsing the music with a group of students from there, and this ends with a performance at the Folk & Fæstival - festival in Esbjerg on February 3rd. I’m looking forward to the whole project!
Shortly after that we’ve finally managed to get a rehearsal camp in the calendar with the busy boys in Afenginn. We’ll be working on old and new music, making plans and hanging out. We’re celebrating 21 years since our first show as Afenginn in February and that calls for a toast as well!
In February the Klingra album “…eftir” will be released. This is something that I’m also really excited about. We’ve been releasing singles throughout the autumn and still have one more in the pipeline before the full album drops. From mid-April to beginning of May we’ll go on tour with that in Denmark, Sweden and Faroe Islands with the full 7-piece band. Much more Klingra stuff to be announced later.
And things are also moving with Roma’s and mine little duo Vielsted. We’ve been working quite actively lately with focus on the live production. We’ve come a long way and are ready to start getting this on the road as well. In the coming months we’re planning on booking some smaller shows and throwing ourselves out there in front of the roaring crowds. Watch out!
In addition to these three projects that are all moving forward on each of their tracks, I’m having plans on composing a new piece for classical ensemble with electronics. I’ve been working on the concepts and different ideas for this and I’m really enjoying diving into the rabbit holes of fractals and sequences and slow tempos and and and…
And then all the sowing and planting and building soil and all that will be happening in between. Hooray for that!
Happy New 2023 Year!