"The Path Of The Deserted Farm"
“To continue describing the more technical aspects of the music, this is a tune mostly about composition and arrangement, with a long form and a cinematic scope to it. Built around a simple, stubborn and highly repetitive ostinato, which together with the marching drum and the swelling brass makes the tune’s engine, giving it a sense of forward motion.
I very much enjoy this extended format of a twelve minute long tune and the epic feel it can evoke — you really have some time for development.
Sometimes a specific time length format can inspire you to try new things. For example, in 1995 we, bass player Johannes Lundberg, saxophonist Joakim Milder and myself, did a CD called Ord På Golvet (Words On The Floor) which was totally improvised music (yet highly edited) based around short poem fragments from Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. We could set up a simple form rule for ourselves like for instance "this piece is going to be one minute long".
It’s almost like a paradox; a limitation can make you feel free and creative — embrace one on a given parameter, and it can be quite refreshing, sometimes even necessary.
The solo section, with the ostinato excluded, and its melody is originally all improvised on the guitar, performed real-time as a solo and not until afterwards given it’s chords, suggested by the improvised solo melody. This process of composing an improvised solo is something that I’ve done a lot on previous records (like on Zenith from The Thule Spirit) and a method to search into more in the future.
Mads’ voice and the vg-8 guitar blends together to form the sound of the solo melody here. The solo melody is very linear in its nature, due to the way it was created; there’s no repetition. The ostinato is left alone for a moment, to precede the five-minute long last part of the piece — which is one long build towards celebrating the ending melody in its full splendour, including a fat backbeat to go with it.
The accordion, played by Stefan, is used to form the sound of the melody together with the vg-8 from where the ending theme starts. It’s the culmination of not only this song but of the entire album. To me, music is often about euphoria and enthusiasm, and this last section of the track is kind of a personal reflection over these concepts. Ödegårdsstigen was really the soundtrack of my life during a certain period of time.”
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ÖDEGÅRDSSTIGEN
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