The Arbiter of Change
Artwork by Marius Svendsås Well, US elections came and went and the pendulum swung back on itself to smash into the establishment. Go figure, genocide, war, censorship and assassinations are not all that popular it seems. So then the populist rises. For this song I have tapped into history to catch the zeitgeist of the times, chronicling the rise of the Arbiter of Change who will bring about a new order to the realm. Morten Boland Jørgensen does the bass and my childhood friend Marius Mathisen Svendsås made a lead guitar for the history books, as well as crafting an elegant piece of cover art. Arbiter of Change - Streaming In addition, I have redone Joy & Pain, Vol. I with my band in Kysten Studio at Tvibit. With Sivert Henriksen as our producer, we went ahead with re-recording all 5 songs, churning out a bolstered startup EP for my project. Henrik Haukland, who now has moved south and has released an album on his own as Haukland, did an amazing lead guitar. Morten J. did super sol...