Facts on BLUE DAYS (Released in September 2021)

Though I had already released an album this year, I found myself inspired and had to jump right in. This time I only had about 6 songs finished (text and melody) on my list. But who said I had to release an entire album? So I quickly landed on the idea of an EP, and ended up collecting four of my songs, as these had a similar feeling to them (You may not have noticed, but I usually don't write songs about love, loss, longing and sorrow). I decided to do the recordings as "honest" and raw as they should be. Two personal methods for this; Recording guitar and vocal simultaneously, and skipping metronome/click-track. These methods were used on three of the songs.

New lessons
<Reverb> I experimented even more with reverb this time around. On "Where Is My Heart", I used plate and ambient reverb, as well as time adjuster (delay). The new experiment was panning the reverbs in different directions, trying to find a better balance (Earlier I have kept the reverbs front center - Now I turned them 30 degrees ish to left or right). I also worked on the frequences of the reverb; Lowering the amount of reverb on lower frequences; espesially on "Waiting Blues" where the dark tones from the guitar made some unnecessary "noice".

Funfacts
Usually I name the album after the song I think describes the collection of songs best. "Wreck" is short and easy, but would not serve the other songs their right. Neighter would "Waiting Blues", so this time I selected a title outside of the song list. I was for a while considering making an instrumental track, and name this "Blue Days", but it didn't come to that. As recording day came to an end on the 9th of September I thought; "I probably have a melodi on my phone I could use". Absolutely. My phone is packed with melodies I have not yet used, and one of them had a half-way lyric. The lyric made no sence of course, as I usually sing out inventive sentences in the moment of recording the melody. But I ended up using most of the spontaneous sentences, and adding more meat to the bone/more lyrics, to have a somewhat complete song. Within ten minutes I had finished this song. It also made perfect sence closing the EP with this song, now that the election is on a high note in Norway, and the big topic at the moment being climate changes and our part in helping out. ...Another big topic is how we've not reached our goal set from the Paris Agreement.
Well, blue days are gonna come.

Latefact
A couple of weeks after the release, I found a page in my writing book with lines that looked quite familiar. I had already started writing a song with pieces of the same lyrics and rythm as the recorded "Blue Days". I got surprisingly annoyed, as parts of the message from this original lyrics had more depth to it. I wrote about the world situation - Not my own emotional journey (Which was absolutely relevant to me at the time, but the world situation was absolutely more meaningful). For the first(?) time, I regretted not checking my notes better before finishing a song, and decided to make a compromise; When performing this song live, I would change the first line of the song to mach this original text. 
Here are the original lyrics (what was finished at least) for "Blue Days":

Heatwave's been touring Europe for weeks
While fall is slowly touching the cheeks of home (Norway)
Don't hear nothing though the radio's on
The record of 70 was beat by a cell
And up here in Norway politicians yell "election!"
Vote before all hope is gone

Well I can't help feeling like all of this talk
Makes little difference as the US walks
Out of a war zone they so long has fought to keep
This ain't on me the headmaster/president say
As American troups are flown away
While Afghan citicents worry for whats to come