Sverre Gjørvad - Here Comes The Sun (CD)

Release Date: 01/20/23

Put on your best headphones, start the music and turn up the volume (a little more!) and enjoy the music. An album for gourmets says Jacek Brun

Sverre Gjørvad´s tetralogy: 4 years, 4 albums with the same 4 musicians recorded in the same studio, mixed and mastered by the same men and all 4 albums released on the same label.

Sverre Gjørvad - drums, vocals

Herborg Rundberg - keyboards, vocals

Kristian Svalestad Olstad - guitar, vocals

Dag Okstad - bass, vocals

Guest - Eirik Hegdal - saxophone on track 11

Voi River LOS2162 - 2019

Elegy of Skies LOS2472 - 2020

Time To Illuminate Earth LOS2662 - 2021

Here Comes The Sun LOS2792 - 2023

Four years have passed since the album Voi River was recorded in August 2018: four years, and three more albums.

The inspiration behind the name Elegy of Skies is not known, but it was after the album with the same title that the idea of ​​four albums dedicated to each (Aristotelian) element came.

Time to Illuminate Earth was and is an appropriate title for almost anything, while Here Comes the Sun will forever be associated with something positive and beautiful.
Maybe the albums of this tetralogy also reflect the four seasons. If Voi River was a summerly album and Elegy of Skies brought an autumn mood, then Time to Illuminate Earth is dark and wintery. It suits, I think. And, here in the High North, where the sun actually is below the horizon for two months of the year, Here Comes the Sun is an appropriate title for a spring album.

Four albums with the same four musicians, recorded and mixed in the same studio, all released on the same label (and mastered by the same guy, too).

On three out of four albums, the same front cover photographer.

It has been a rewarding project: 30 new compositions, as well as personal interpretations of music I like. Hopefully, it paints a picture of me as a composer, and some of what has influenced me.

Also hopefully, it reflects a band evolving a timbre with a certain geographical distinctiveness: elements of the High North distilled in sound.

Sverre Gjørvad, 2022