"The Moon Out Of The Clouds"
“Written in 1993 during the two year period working on my first solo album Hymn. The main melody establishes the basic clave and calls for the powerful, bombastic environment. The idea of having contrasting and commenting passages is especially evident here. Mads speaks and tells his brief haiku-like story in his native Greenlandic language in the gentle interludes surrounding the middle, solo section.
This section contains a solo with a longer arc to feature Christian (Vuust, the saxophonist) on tenor sax playing a great epic type of solo. It has those harmonic modulations built into it that I like so much (also used on I Förväntan and Omen) that keeps the more modal milieu from becoming harmonically stagnant, and adds freshness and intensity to the solo. The solo section is a good example of the band’s ensemble playing in which the interaction within the rhythm section shines through clearly.
On an album like this with so much emphasis on the arrangements and the production process and its many stages — preparation, editing, overdubbing etc. — it’s a challenge to try to incorporate this thing with the main aim; having this great group of musicians to really play together to get the quality of the real-time interplay between them — the jazz factor.
The attempt of having these both divergent but complementary qualities working side by side is an important one for me. My approach is that they should be able to co-exist without diminishing each other. Much too often these are seen as incompatible opposites. This tune ends the suite of the last four tracks. An effective tune to play live.”
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MÅNEN UR MOLNEN
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