- We Belong Together
- Holy Higher
- You Are The Word
- Wonder Of Your Love
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Lord I Want To Have You
- Merciful And Good
- Strip Me
Two catalogues · one composer
Music
Two bodies of work, and they are not the same thing.
01 · With Krisztina
The Word
One Word, many voices.
One set of words. Recorded again and again, in rooms that could not be more different - and that is the whole point.
We tell ourselves we weigh what is said. We do not. We weigh how it arrives. The same sentence lands as truth in one arrangement and as embarrassment in another, and almost nobody notices that the sentence never changed. Form does not carry the content. Most of the time it stands in front of it.
Play them against each other and you can hear yourself deciding - not about the words, but about the room. That is the experiment. The words hold still so you can watch what you do to them.
The album
In the Beginning...
Eight songs, twelve ways to hear them. Pick a cover and press play. Or open the album in Spotify.
- Holy Higher
- Merciful And Good
- Strip Me
- Lord I Want To Have You
- We Belong Together
- I Will Follow You Alone
- You Are The Word
- Wonder Of Your Love
- Lord I Want To Have You (Alternate Version)
Telecaster twang, pedal steel and a band playing live in one bright room. The songs walk out under an open sky.
- Strip Me
- Lord I Want To Have You
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Merciful And Good
- You Are The Word
- Holy Higher
- We Belong Together
- Wonder Of Your Love
The Black church tradition, stripped to its core: grand piano, one woman's voice in full range, a stacked choir, snaps and claps.
- Merciful And Good
- Holy Higher
- Strip Me
- You are the Word
- We Belong Together
- Lord I want to have You
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Wonder of Your Love
- Strip me (Live Gospel Bonus Track1)
- Lord, I Want To Have You (Live Gospel Bonus Track1)
- You Are The Word (Live Gospel Bonus Track1)
- Holy Higher (Live Gospel Bonus Track1)
- I Will Follow You Alone (Studio Gospel Bonus Track)
- Holy Higher (Studio Gospel Bonus Track)
Moog bass, vocoder and Hammond under a gospel choir. The church and the machine, singing the same line.
- Lord I Want To Have You
- Strip Me
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Holy Higher
- You Are The Word
- We Belong Together
- Wonder Of Your Love
- Merciful And Good
Tight, syncopated riffs and a cutting lead guitar. All drive and edge, with every chorus held in the pocket.
- Holy Higher
- We Belong Together
- Strip Me
- Merciful and Good
- Lord I Want To Have You
- You Are The Word
- Wonder Of Your Love
- I Will Follow You Alone
- You Are The ReImagined Word
The reference version the other eleven grew from. Electronic soul with a deep, saturated low end and a voice up close.
- Lord I want to have You
- Strip me
- I Will Follow You Alone
- You Are the Word
- Merciful and Good
- Holy Higher
- We Belong Together
- Wonder of Your Love
- Merciful and Good ('You're the Only One' Edit)
Four in the morning. A drum machine, a dry Wurlitzer and a half-spoken voice in a small room. Nothing to hide behind.
- Strip Me
- Lord I Want to Have You
- We Belong Together
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Holy Higher
- Wonder of Your Love
- You Are The Word
- Merciful and Good
Fingerpicked steel strings, upright bass and brushed snare. One room, the breath left in.
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Strip Me
- Lord I Want To Have You
- Holy Higher
- You Are Merciful And Good
- We Belong Together
- You are the Word
- Wonder of Your Love
Supersaw chords, pumping sidechain and pitched vocal chops. Weightless and radiant, made for headphones.
- Lord I want to Have You
- Strip Me
- You Are the Word
- Merciful and Good
- I Will Follow You Alone
- Holy Higher
- Wonder of Your Love
- We Belong Together
- You Are the Holy Higher (MashUp)
- Wonder of Your love (Goin' Hard Edit)
Log drums, marimba and a slow half-time pulse. Earthy and devotional, a communal chant under a soulful female lead.
In the Beginning... · Barefoot Hymns
Not yet published
This version is still being finished. It will play here the day it is out.
Long builds, held chords and breaks that open like a door, the tempo climbing from 110 to 138 bpm.
In the Beginning... · Violent Beauty
Not yet published
This version is still being finished. It will play here the day it is out.
02 · Solo
Thomas Finn
Original material. Recorded at last.
These songs are old. Most were written long before there was any way to record them the way they sounded in my head - a room full of players I did not have, an arrangement I could hear and could not reach.
So they waited. Not because they were unfinished, but because the distance between what a song is and what one man with a guitar can put on tape was too wide to cross.
That distance closed. What you hear is not a demo rescued and cleaned up. It is the arrangement that was always there, finally audible - the same notes, written when they were written, now carried by everything the song was asking for.
Nothing here is generated instead of composed. The writing is old. Only the room is new.
Solo
The catalogue
One EP and seven singles, in Danish and in English. Pick a cover and press play. Or open it in Spotify.
- Mit hjerte kan ik' finde ro
- Baby, jeg vil ha' dig
- Regnen Den Falder
- Kalder på dig
- Frihed i mit hjerte
- Over Midnat
- Brændt ud
- Baby, jeg vil ha' dig
- Let It Go
- Fall into you
- Move on
- Do you need me for love