Blue Tide
New instrumental album out 7th of July
Blue Tide
With my 25th album, Blue Tide, that is a complete instrumental, I have followed the magic of the intuitive and the impulsive, where the imprints from cultivated thinking did not catch up.. luckily. The project started from a moody blue feeling one evening, where I said out load with my guitar in my hands; "I don't think I have it anymore". Next experience was like God replied; "So you don't?.. we'll see about that"! And like magic was dropped down on me, new and original ideas popped in one by one.
Next day I went through the video that my loved one Kari had recorded from this happening, and this strong blue light brighten up through the windows on the film.
This could be a nice cover for an album I thought, and from there I was lightfully guided through the recording sessions in my studio, that happened naturally impulsive and without no boundaries or limitations from the ego-control perspective. Only pure creativity from the source of music was guided through my hands, that followed the inputs willingly and trustfully.
After six weeks from the beginning of August to mid September 2024, 11 pieces of beautiful new guitar instrumental music was recorded, with rhythm guitars, bass guitars and solo guitars. A half year later, after editing was done in also guided moments, I began to record keyboard sounds and sometimes B3 organ on different tracks. Since my son Kenneth was occupied, I hired the Portuguese session drummer Nuno Oliveira that lives in London, who did a remarkable good job!
This project is showing the way of God. How the essence of Love still works through those who are blessed with a humble heart and attitude. God love to surprise those who have accepted in fully to be an instrument for divine creativity based on enthusiastic and inspirational Love. The album also marks, by each song title, a sentence that tell how the humanly cultivated mind is so limited compared to the essence of God.. whom guides so surprisingly original and beautiful when the receiver is open and not competitive, but only in love with the source that creates..
Cover photo from Vrådal in Telemark.
Bended - But Not Broken
This guitar instrumental waltz is a little taste of the upcoming instrumental album BLUE TIDE. The album was mainly recorded in August 2024, after moving to the Blues village Skånevik in Etne kommune in April that year. This little village has had a remarkable drawing to great artists around the world, like ZZ Top, Gary Moore, Alice Cooper, Jeff Back and many other great artists and bands. As a newcomer, I experienced a kind of magical blue horizon in some sunsets. It materialized quickly in a lot of new ideas I intuitively jumped into and recorded, 11 tracks in all.
This opening act; Bended, is song number two on the upcoming album, that has its call out…; that we really, more than ever, need to stand up for our human rights and cosmic values of oneness. That the purified now are bended, but still not broken.. that; nor can we ever be broken, if we decide to be in one with the divine love of God.
All music is written, arranged, produced and mixed by me Rey Larsen, where I also are playing all instruments. Except for drums on the four first tracks, played by Sindre Bakkåker, and Shane Fontayne who is playing electric guitars and mix on Nothing Works But Love.
Into The Light And On
This is my album number 24, where also this one is recorded in my own studio. Half of the songs are ones that has been waiting for a place in my musical library, all back from the eighties and on. Tracks nr. 1-3-7-9-10-11 is new songs.
It is a concept album trying to reflect the issus how we are culturally dressed to loose our lights during cultivation, and how this moment in history is at a pivotal point where humanity is pressed to wake up from their scars of self-denial and refine and cherish their inner cosmic light of love.
The flower from the Malva sylvesttis I photographed is used on the cover to symbolize the purity and the beauty from the wonders of creation. As a metaphor and portal into the Holy Spirit’s laws of size, where every creation is equally valued, and has its own remarkable place and diversity in the oneness of life.