This song was created in a rough period of my life, many (of my) songs are
When feeling overwhelmed, I tend to write more positive, or at least focus on making music that I find beautiful. I write something that I desperately need to hear.
And so, these works have a great deal of meaning to my personal life. Actually, it feels like my life is tied directly to them.
“Summerfall” was composed when I was 21 (in comparison, the works: “Exo/Eos” was composed when I was 18/19, “September” at age 17/18, and “The Book Of Parallel Worlds” around 16/17)
Many of these works have been heavily shortened for this project, but “Summerfall” is in it’s full glory. I considered trimming it down too (cutting out the instrumental sequences mainly). But decided to go full on with it.
I was inspired to write the song, partially by listening to an organ player; "practicing the pipes" at the Nidaros cathedral, in Trondheim (he was playing some pretty dense chords). But the song is generally inspired by my love for classical music (I hate that word , it's such a lame term, and too broad! Just like "contemporary" art),.
I often can’t help, envisioning harps, piano and strings though, when improvising on a guitar (depends on the song of course!)
Anyways, I decided to illustrate this, by revealing some of the orchestral arrangements, originally made, in this final release.
However, I still find many of the songs (made for an orchestra), just as interesting, when performed on a guitar. There are enough pure orchestral music out there, so I like to shake it up.