Karl
Do you feel your thoughts are gathering speed, inventing more and more stories about the future and the past, slowly building up to anxiety?
Well here’s a remedy that could work:
Find a comfortable armchair, sit down, close your eyes, breathe deeply and listen to “Not Your Child” first, and then “In Your Arms” and why not the entire album “Wash Away the Past” which Karl invites you to download for free.
Karl is sometimes called a Swedish Peter Gabriel, and partly this is how I hear it also, as he sometimes produces the same feelings from his music. Wonderful. But I do feel that there is something else, another kind of closeness in Karl’s music and lyrics that gives a different kind of experience from listening.
One obvious example of this you’ll find in the song below “När jag blev mindre igen” where Karl sings in Swedish. This is a song that’s not part of the album, lyrics by Niklas Aurgrunn and that makes me dive into a feeling as if my entire life passes by in a few moments.
From the album “Wash Away the Past” you’ll also find below his collaboration with singer Sara Dahlgren : “Song to the Frozen People”.
Listen and enjoy:
Not Your Child
In My Arms
Song to the Frozen People (med Sara Dahlgren)
När jag blev mindre igen (text av Niklas Aurgrunn)
Ladda hem “Wash Away the Past” från Last.fm
I dion’t know swedish, but this is such a pretty sone “när jag blev mindre igen”…what is the sone about?
Hi Darold, it`s a good question… I think it`s about looking for the child within, so to speak, about preserving the sensibility and the outlook, the curiousity and the poetry of childhood. Or something to that effect. Why don`t you set to study swedish, it`s a grand and sadly neglected language; mastering it would also enable you to enjoy writers such as Strindberg, Tove Jansson and Bruno K Öijer in their natural habitat – strongly recommended! B good! /Niklas