Happy to announce that “When Echoes Fade” is a semi-finalist in the 2020 International Songwriting Competition (ISC)
There is quite a few others as well of course, but being among the 9% of 26.000 entries is still great fun!
New music video
“Through The Dark” is taken from Christian Weldes 2015 album, Illuminate.
The track features Norwegian jazz player Ole Jacob Hystad on tenor saxophone.
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“Frankfurt” featured on exciting playlist
BLADE RUNNER | CYBERPUNK | SHADOWRUN | ALTERED CARBON | NEUROMANCER
That is the title of the Spotify playlist where I am featured together with lots of other great composers and artists. Thanks to Michael Schubert for putting this list together.
Music and soundscapes of a futuristic and bleak megacity, inspired by BLADE RUNNER. – Dark clouds | industrial towers | neon lights | police cruisers | huge billboards | replicants | crime.
Michael Schubert – playlist curator
Old tapes transferred to new format
The industry standard master format, the DAT-tape is no longer in use. I still have lots of ideas and sketches in this format, so I will spend the weekend and the following days to transfer these to the computer as audio files.
Hopefully some forgotten gems might turn into full production in the future. It is always fun to listen to ones old ideas, some as far as back as 1993. Some of these files are already on albums like Fairytales..
Tech nerd alert:
The optical ins of the Edirol UA-25 audio card captures the digital audio from the Sony 57 ES DAT player, kindly borrowed to me by Vegar Pedersen. Some trial and error with cables and sample rates and we are in motion!
When a Pink Floyd singer guested my album
In 2015 Pink Floyd backing singer Durga McBroom was featured as singer on two tracks on my Illuminate album. The title single and the song When Night Falls.
Merchandise
Looking for something new to put on? Check out the When Echoes Fade merch here.
Happy New Year!
With radio airplay and chart placement of “When Echoes Fade” last winter, release of the single “Aerial” in May, and re-recording of “Darling Blue” with Geir Halleland in August, the conclusion is that last year also had some musical highlights. Suddenly there will be some releases in 2021 too! Happy New Year!
Radio interview (Norwegian)
Christian Welde komponerer musikk hjemme i Kopervik og spiller selv alt av keyboards. Når han skal hente inn stemmer og andre instrumenter, bruker han folk i Nashville, Los Angeles, New York og Asker.
Hør intervju med Egil Houeland i forbindelse med slipp av singelen When Echoes Fade i november 2019.
Summer Forest doing well on playlists
Summer Forest featured on playlist by LightJourneyMusic.com.
Ambient tones is a playlist by LightJourneyMusic.com featuring artists like David Helping, Brian Eno and Biosphere. I am happy to be a part of this great company.
