Happy Easter! I hope you have enjoyed the Easter Holiday! I spent mine in the beautiful Faroe Islands. I played a show in the capital city, Torshavn, and also got some time off to visit a good friend of mine and the breathtaking Faroese highlands.

Tuesday morning I was interviewed to the Faroese National Radio (the morning show called “Good Morning Faroe Islands”. I also played two songs, So mournful the elegy, So comforting the hymn and Selma. Listen to it here.

waiting in the lobby at the radiostation

Wednesday I played at The Nordic House, which must be one of the world’s most beutiful venues with a panorama view over Torshavn city and the Atlantic Ocean.

Tickets

I should have played with Lena Anderssen, but unfortunately, she got sick just before the show, so instead, one of the most popular artists on the Faroe Islands right now, Høgni Reistrup played instead. Keep a close on him – I think he has the potential to get a big audience outside FO – maybe the next Teitur

The show went well, and I hope to return soon!

As I mentioned, I also got some time off to see the Faroese Highlands. The weather can change in seconds – from bright sunshine to snow and fog, but the weather was great (nearly) all weak. The landscape is a bit like Iceland, but much greener. No trees, though.

One thing that is a bit peculiar with the Faroe Islands is, that there are more sheep than there are people. Approximately 70.000 sheep. And the Faroese people eat everything but the wool and the contents of the intestines. They use some of the wool for clothing, and it should be some of the finest wool you can get. And when I say, that they eat everything, I mean EVERYTHING – like the head below…

delicatesse: The head of a sheep

I’m preparing for the Denmark tour that starts tomorrow. I’m so excited. Stay tuned the next couple of days, I’ll post some pictures and updates. And come to Aarhus or Aalborg og Odense, if you want to hear Hymns from Nineveh and Murder. It’ll be great.

See you.

/Jonas

At least four good things happened in the studio today:

1) David Blomqvist (the gentleman who also played dbl.bass on the christmassongs) came by, and made the first guestappearance and did some doubblebass on Selma and So mournful the elegy… He was great! We did some rythmical experiments on both of them with the bass, it was a good creative process.

2) I had a guitarpart in mind for So mournful the elegy.. and I just couldn’t play it, because the leadguitar was in a rubato-feeling (which means, that it doesn’t have a steady pulse). Which is stupid, because that means, that if I can’t play together with the guitar, that I have recorded myself, then – who can?! But – we recorded it anyway, and Aske did some magic with some reverb and some tapedelay, and now it has the function of a soundlayer in stead of an actual instrument. Smooth.

3) So, instead we transformed the main idea of the guitarpart into a pianopart. Aske, who is a skilled pianist, played and recorded it, and it was so beautiful, that I almost cried. Afterwards we basically decided to start all over with So mournful.., because we think we have figured out, what to do. That’s one of the lessons in life – sometimes, you start somewhere and end up in another place than you intended, but that isn’t necessarily bad. Not in this case, anyway.

4) Good thing No. 4 was, that all this was documented on videotape! A good friend of mine, Søren K had volunteered to film a day in the studio – for what maybe will become a documentary some day.

Yes, boys and girls. That was today’s report. Tomorrow, Friday, we will begin where we ended – go on with the new and better version of So mournful. Stay tuned!

/Jonas

Welcome to the new blog. In the future, http://www.hymns.dk will be THE place to go for information about what happens with Hymns from Nineveh. A big thank you to Søren K for helping me out.

Monday, Aske and I began recording the forthcoming Hymns from Nineveh-album! Once again, the action takes place in Pinligtavshed. It feels great finally to be doing it, and not just thinking and talking about it.

We plan on working until May. Right now, we really don’t know where it is going to end, but we have a feeling, a feeling which is hard to put into words. We’ve selected 5 songs to begin with, and when they’re done, well pick 5 more, and so on.  Yesterday we recorded guitar on “Selma” and “So mournfull the elegy..”. Just to get started.

We’ll meet again on thursday, where the first guest-appearence will happen: David Blomqvist will come and put some folky doubblebass on Selma.

Three more things..

Three more shows added to the concert-calendar, including the first Faroe Islands show ever. Unfortunately, I will come alone and without the beautiful band of Hymnboys and -girl. But I’m looking forward to visit the lovely sheep-eating brothers and sisters of FO. Anyone, who have been there and could give some good advice on what to see?

Danish Music Mag. GAFFA picked up the story, that I’m recording and going to tour w/ Murder. Read about it here (in Danish). Also, Danish musicblog, Blaa Vinyl, writes nice things these days.

Finally, I can tell you, that a young, Danish documentarist is working on a Hymns from Nineveh-documentary. He will be following us around the next couple of months.

That was all for now. /Jonas

The Copenhagen snow is melting – The Winterking is falling, Queen of Spring is coming!

As I mentioned in the last post, we did a videoshoot some time ago – below you can watch two more videos: Selma and a brandnew song, So mournful the elegy, so comforting the hymn! Hope you enjoy.

Yesterday, A&R from Good Tape Records, Aske, Caspar and I met to talk about the forthcoming album. More about that later.

We’ll play @ Løves Bogcafé, Vesterbro on Friday. Hope to see you there!

Selma

So mournful the elegy, so comforting the hymn