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(Norwegian) Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis21 April 2008
Aurora Borealis (or the Northern Lights) is a naturally occurring coloured light display, usually observed in the night sky and named after the Roman Goddess of dawn, ‘Aurora’, and the Greek name for the North wind ‘Boreas’. It commonly appears as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the sun was rising from an unusual direction. The Aurora Borealis is also called the Northern Polar Lights, as it is only visible in the North sky from the Northern Hemisphere. The Aurora Borealis is most often visible between September and October and March and April.
I’m 100% sure there’s something magical in the Northern Lights. Not only do my trawls through Flickr / Google Images / Wikimedia / YouTube reveal endless wonders (such as the one at the top of this post as well as at the bottom) but for the past few years music (that I imagine is made at night, under these lights) has been emanating from Norway that leaves me blissfully spellbound in some sort of euphoric state which is how I can only imagine it would feel to be Scandinavian.
‘Folk I Farta’ is the opening track from DiskJokke’s brilliant debut album, ‘Staying In’ . I would go further than just likening the track to the magic of the Northern Lights and describe what the track actually sounds like but writing about music is like dancing about architecture (or something similar) and I’d only do it a disservice, so you’ll have to figure it out for yourself.
Lindström’s ‘I Feel Space’ (out sometime around 2004) is my ultimate Northern Lights track though. If you don’t know much about Lindström check out his excellent 12” collection album ‘It’s A Feedelity Affair’ . It’s what I’d coin an ultimate ‘emotive dance’ music track, (a track that you dance to as well as get seriously emotional about).
Anyway, I’ve gone on for too long and opened up way too much. Listen to either track with this on loop:
(With thanks to Wikipedia) , for enlightening me not only on the phenomenon of the Northern Lights but just about all the knowledge I’ve ever tried to pass off as book-read.)
Download ‘Folk I Farta’ here
Download ‘I Feel Space’ here
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