It’s been a while since I updated this space. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reflecting on the year gone by - what worked, what didn’t, and how I want to approach 2025. It’s easy to let time drift by, one task leading to the next, without stepping back to check where things are headed. This holiday, I’ve made an effort to pause and take stock.

I've got some good news to share. The Klingra album "...eftir" has landed us nominations in not one, but two categories at the Faroese Music Awards 2024. We're up for "Ársins Myndlistarligi Samleiki" (Artistic Identity of the Year) and "Ársins Ser-Útgáva" (Special Edition of the Year).

I’m very happy to announce that Afenginn has joined forces with Spectacle Music, who will take care of the bookings from now on.

I’m in Greece at the moment and have been participating in the Short Encounters International Film Festival in Préveza. A really nice little town in northwestern Greece.

It’s busy and exciting times here. The debut album from Klingra - “…eftir” - is ready, and has been for a good while actually, and the release is just around the corner. On the 14th of April the album will be released. There’s a lot of action around connected to that. Promo stuff to get people to know that it’s out there, sending the baby to this and that blog and playlist and media and and and. I’m really proud of the album and would, obviously, like loads of people hearing it.

But apart from all that office work, one of the most rewarding and fun things about this, is going on tour. We’re having a nice release tour lined up in Scandinavia.

Happy New Year 2023. Here we go again. Another round. I like the feeling of a reboot when passing the winter solstice and going into a new year. The light is slowly returning and there’s a refreshed feeling of hope and focus. I usually spend some time on reflecting over the past year and making thoughts about the upcoming. Drafting out projects and plotting stuff in the calendar that have just been floating around in my mind or on the whiteboard. Now is a good time to find and give space for projects that is due to get concretised. To move them from the “Some day / Maybe” category to “Next action”.

A few weeks ago I got my compost heater ready. It’s been on the way for years, ever since I first learned about Jean Pain and his projects. I’m pretty interested in low tech off-grid solutions in general and I’ve been having this as my focus as I’ve been setting up my little dwelling. There’s a lot of clay here. Clay on the walls, around the windows, clay floor with floor heating and last year I built a rocket stove mass heater out of clay. I made it with a coil that’s heating water for the buffer tank, which then in turn sends heat into to floor.

I’m back in Denmark after spending the last week on the Faroe Islands working with Klingra. I love being there - the mood, the nature, the people - and I often catch myself thinking that it feels a bit like a second home. It was also a pretty intense week and it’s good to be home and back in my daily routines.

We had three shows scheduled and worked a lot on those.

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Entering the second half of August, the summer is plugging on with hot and dry days. It’s a busy time of the year here and while the days are still pretty long and light and summery, I’m starting to switch into a different mood. It’s about preparing for the times ahead - both with getting the produce from the garden preserved (been fermenting cucumbers and making dried eggs) - but also keeping the music and creative side of my work running. This is also a time where a bunch of deadlines for applications suddenly appear out of the blue each and every year, and also a time to start booking shows for next spring and summer.

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Since March this year I’ve been renting about half a hectar of land on the neighbouring plot and setting that up to produce food. The rental goes for ten years to start with, and then we’ll see how we both feel about it all. Right now I’m feeling magnificent about the the whole circus there. I love having some more space to make a mess on and really enjoying all aspects of the work. Setting up the beds, building another poly tunnel and wood shed…and in some kind of process setting up a small house for the duck for when it gets cold.

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In 2021 the Faroese Chamber Ensemble “Aldubáran” and Summartónar Festival commissioned a piece from me, which was premiered in August 2021 in the Faroe Islands. Here’s a 6 minute extract from the performance of 28 min in total.

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Yesterday was a big release day in this headquarter and so both the soundtrack to the movie “Skilleveien” by Peter Salling and music by yours truly, AND the first Vielsted full length album, named “Dimma”, was released to the roaring masses.

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These last months I’ve been busy working on the debut album from the new band Klingra. Last year in August we had a recording session in Studio Bloch in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands where we got most of the tracks in the box. The ambitions with the album has grown as we’ve gone deeper into the music and new ideas have emerged, resulting in some additional recordings and tweaks here and there.

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Based on the album “Klingra”, which is the latest album from Afenginn, I’ve decided to start a new band that will focus on the musical expression and direction from that album. The band is also called Klingra. It means “circle” in faroese. The members are all musicians that I’ve worked with before in Afenginn and on the Klingra album.

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