Category: Throwbacks
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Production map – When Echoes Fade
The song When Echoes Fade (2019) had contributors world wide. Check out this map showing where the many elements were recorded/made.
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Background
Always having been fascinated by sound, Norwegian artist/keyboardist/producer Christian started his musical career with piano lessons at the age of 8. He also joined the school brass band playing the euphonium. After playing keyboards in a few bands in his teens, and after studying both german and economics (finding out that was not the path…
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Throwback to PROGs article on Illuminate
In 2015 Prog magazines writer Martin Kielty did an article on the Illuminate album, featuring Pink Floyd backing singer Durga McBroom.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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December music
They may not be Christmas songs, but a few of my tracks have a Christmas or December mood to them. Starting with two tracks from the Fairytales album, The Colour of December and Dreams of Christmas. Then, in 2006, the single December Song was released. It featured Alice Hellevik Solum on vocals and Roger Pedersen…