Waldemartorgeir - No Offending Borders [CD]

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Torgeir Waldemar took the Norwegian people and music press by surprise with his eponymous debut album in 2014. Who had thought that the black-clad, longhaired and bearded man would deliver an album that captivated and moved us as much as it did. An acoustic masterpiece that sounded like it came straight from the rehearsal room of a young troubadour from Laurel Canyon in the seventies.\r
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While his previous album cultivated a pure, acoustic sound, we get more rock music this time, and for Torgeir Waldemar nothing is more natural. With his background as a guitar hero in various rock bands, it was only a question of time before distorted tones would assert themselves in his solo career. \xabNo Offending Borders\xbb is a gloriously composite work with both dead honest acoustic laments and grandiose rock songs.\r
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But the record is so much more than that, and for Torgeir this is a document that shows the seriousness we meet in our everyday lives. Both on the personal level, with relationships that falls apart and the loss of loved ones, but also on a national and global level, with refugee crises, suicide statistics and the weakest members of our society. You may have guessed it already, but this is a solemn record.\r
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If you're afraid that Torgeir Waldemar has turned away from what he presented on his debut album, you can relax. Here we get acoustic folk songs like \xabFalling Rain (Link Wray)\xbb, \xabIsland Bliss\xbb and \xabSouls on a String\xbb, but the album also contains more intense rock songs like \xabSummer In Toulouse\xbb, \xabSylvia (Southern People)\xbb and \xabAmong the Low\xbb. A complete album, you might say \u2026 and we're saying it.\r
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Aesthetically, it's also consistent from beginning to end - nothing at all is done by chance here. The historical lines that are drawn in the cover design, are also meant to point back to ourselves and to make us conscious of our past, so that we won't make the same mistakes again. The cover of the single \xabSouls on a String\xbb featured a photo of the decorated carrier pigeon from World War I, Cher Ami. It saved a whole British company during the war, when the British were caught in a battle, without any food or ammunition. Cher Ami was sent away, and taken under fire by the enemy, but finally delivered the message that saved the British troops.\r
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The chair on the cover of \xabNo Offending Borders\xbb is from Kviknes Hotel in Balestrand. This is the chair that Wilhelm II, the King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, was sitting in when he was told that World War I had started. Wilhelm II was a friend of Norway and spent much time on the west coast in the early 1900s. What would you have done if you were sitting in that chair and received that message? Sit down, think thoroughly about it, while you're listening to \xabNo Offending Borders\xbb.

Falling Rain (Link Wray)

Summer In Toulouse

Among The Low

Island Bliss

Sylvia (Southern People)

The Bottom Of The Well

Souls On A String

I See The End