Can music bring you calm?

Music is truly incredible and, at the same time, a genuinely spectacular phenomenon.

It gives you an object in the outer world to focus on, and if you like the music, it makes you feel great.

It also allows you to focus inward. Who is listening? Who is experiencing the emotions or sensations that the music brings about? In this way, it has the potential to bring us in touch with our inner selves.

In my professional life as a musician and a composer, I have never made music with a specific purpose.
In this way, the release of the first single, Quiet Music, from the upcoming Calmfull Transitions, takes on a new course for me since it was written to help preschoolers gain or regain focus in the minutes before starting the first class at 8 AM.

As part of a research project Musikalske stoppesteder for børn i indskolingsalderen and generously supported by The Royal Academy of Music and Ministry of Culture Denmark, the music will be tested in two classes in the local school. As a bonus, it has a visual accompaniment made by Lukas Ø. Damgaard.

My last single, Higher Minds, has had over 500K plays at Apple Music. I hope that Calmful Music will spread as quickly into the world. In these troubled times, we need to connect and reconnect with ourselves and one another. If the new release could make a small contribution in that direction, it would mean the world to me.

Thank you, my collaborator, Toshiyuki Shibata, for being such an excellent musician, Sebastian V. Olsen for superb recording, mixing, and mastering, Bønnelycke MDD for once again outstanding cover art, and JazzDanmark for traveling expenses.