Songs We Sing

Songs We Sing began in 2018, with the simple desire to play songs that we love. These could be pieces with strong associations, ones we had enjoyed singing and playing before, or songs we had never sung and that were, perhaps, even new to us. When the songs were written or what genre they might come from was not important. what the original instrumentation had been (piano, harpsichord etc) and received ideas about vocal style were also not a priority. Finding a way of creating renditions with the tools at hand (Alwynne's voice and Hans Knut's harmonium) is what originally defined the project.

We’ll be doing more work on Songs We Sing in September, in collaboration with Hild Borchgrevink, Tijs Ham, Roar Sletteland, Thorolf Thuestad and Jeremy Welsh, opening it up to their takes on where the music and texts might go. Personally, at the moment, I’m most interested in bringing story telling into the songs, especially stories drawn from my own past and my first encounters as a child with this music.