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Solveig Aas

A FESTIVAL ASKED ME IN JUNE

Two months a year the sun does not rise where she lives

style

  • nordic folk
  • ambient
  • hardanger fiddle
  • field recordings
  • female soprano
  • ethereal and breathy
  • vast reverb
  • arctic stillness
  • norwegian accent
  • still

the numbers

bpm
129
key
C minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.92
valence
0.38
vocal at
3.4s
length
3:36
language
No

lyrics

(they asked in June)

Outdoors, midnight sun, good money, four thousand people
And I gave them a reason about recording seasons
Which is true and is also entirely beside the point
The point is that in June a crowd can see my face

A festival asked me in June (in June)
And I said no, in June
For the wrong stated reason, in June
In June

In June, in June, in June, in June
I have built a career out of one avoidance and called it a practice
In June, in June, in June, in June
And the practice is real and the avoidance is the engine

Both are true at once. That is what nobody accepts.
The records are good. The dark does make them possible.
And I would not need the dark if I were braver, and I am not.

In June, in June, in June, in June
I have built a career out of one avoidance and called it a practice
In June, in June, in June, in June
And the practice is real and the avoidance is the engine

(both are true...)