Thomas Herlofsen

It started with a ukulele riff, and after recording it, and everything turning out sunny, but somehow sad, my thoughts turned to a friend of mine who's been stuck on a different continent with her son due to Covid. Somehow it became a country ballad along the way. There once was a woman Who fell into a hole And came out into the sun The other side was sunny And peaceful and warm She just couldn’t...

REALLY noisy Rings+Elements + choir from Korg MicroX

Det lå no' i lufta I hvert fall på papiret Og håpet hadde fordufta men ingen torte å si're Og verden var så mørk Og skjermen var så svart Og alle kurver gikk opp Og hvert tre var bart Det banka mye i huet Og jeg grein en del På behørig avstand Fra hver levande sjel Jeg tenkte: “Er det over, kom vi fram, til sist?” Jeg var en innlandrover En innadventist så var det noen som ga meg En elektronisk kl...

A little blues/folk thingy that originally was in Norwegian. it gave me an excuse to take a picture of a stuffed crocodile in a cowboy hat. Bass guitar + rythm track from a broken Mutable Instruments Elements+ tiny bit of guitar through the Plague Bearer filter, a loop of me doing a bad Rutger Hauer impersonation through a phonogene + nice sounds from a Moog Grandmother. Lyrics: Everyone said we s...

So I tried making this really earnest, soulful song about the state of all things with a 70s easy listening vibe, but vocals and lyrics weren't up to scratch. So I was stuck with this orphaned, porny backing track. Then I got the idea of putting HAL9000's death scene from 2001 on top of it, and suddenly I had something :) Eurorack synth (see here for rig: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/9...

Another Norwegian track, called 21 ting (jeg ikke kan) aka the 21 things I can't do. Translated lyrics follow. Guitar, bass, modular, roland se02. driving a pickup truck being swell earning a ton answering well meeting expectations being a real man are just 6 of the things I can't do getting through the whole pile cleaning everywhere keeping my heart lukewarm and my head cool understanding the mea...