blues du jour

being up north with friends and my god daughter celebrating midsummer. taking a break from updates for a little while. the photo shows tora after a day on the trampoline..

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this one starts with a melody i made for my dad’s birthday in november, “fest polska”, then evolves into a six bar blues theme.

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to inge and muimui, who lost their long time friend mochino this weekend.

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it´s been a long gray rainy day i stockholm, perfect for sitting in my snug place going through some photos from my trip to south africa in january. here´s something from my visit to piketberg and the lovely delmotte family.

anthea sang some samples of afrikaans folklore, for instance the gruesome story of siembamba who, i´m not sure, went astray and got into serious trouble.. that melody was the starting point for this piece.

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wednesday night i had an encounter with cato the photographer. nothing too serious, only a flesh wound.

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i owe this bass line to the cats in NO (pinetop smith, the Dr). trying to do a boogie not so intense. is this a contradiction in terms?

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my friend johan prefer his red ones french ‘n chilled

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this one is dedicated to my brother virgil in göteborg.

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actually, i think it is themselves the angels take lightly. in any case, they fly.

close to where i live you find vita bergen, a park on a hill with an amphitheatre and a small gazebo overlooking the stage where we had a jam this evening with some home made instruments. i made a guerilla recording, just trying to figure out how to turn it into ‘blues’..

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way to go mr mole

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there´s just so many attention drawing things in the world

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to the one and only.

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i read that over the last 11 years 600 new species have been found on madagaskar even though only 10% remains of the original rainforest. because of this most of them are endangered. imagine how many species were extinct before they were even discovered. and today greenpeace is directing a campaign against mattel for having barbie wrapped up in paper delivered by a company heavily involved in cutting down rainforests. please do what you can to support the living space for this guy:

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another beauteous pre-summer day in stklm. supposedly our national day, celebrated in commemoration of gustav vasa elected king in 1523. influential sovereign. funky hair cut.

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pic-nic recording at beckholmen.