"Beyond The Mountains"
“This one started with an inviting patch/sound from my vg-8 guitar with the strings pitched octaves up and down to produce this rich 12-string-guitar-like sound, which seemed to insist on the weird opening chords. Often, it’s an exciting challenge to try to go beyond what the guitar usually sounds like, and the vg-8 is the perfect tool for this purpose.
The vg-8 guitar workstation instrument (or whatever I should call it — it’s kind of an instrument in it’s own new category) is an ingredient used on many of the tracks. Mads (Lumholt, the singer) is featured as the soloist for this tune, delivering multiple layers of improvisation — a studio technique always fun to explore. The string orchestra is left out for this tune, allowing the brass section to take charge.
This song may have a few more different sections than the more common song, which demonstrates my ambition of trying to create tunes with lots of different sections (with more or less obvious borders) that organically unfold into each other.
Closely connected to this is the recurrent quest to find a good balance between the linear and the cyclic way of composing which means: How big a portion of new musical material should I add for the continuation of my composition, and how much of repetition of already used material should I use? To me, this is one of the bigger questions and tasks to tackle whenever you’re seriously trying to compose.”
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