I was very touched by the positive reception and warm "welcome back", so to speak, in response to my last upload... so I decided to upload another unreleased song from last year. I wrote this on February 25th 2022, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine. I don't tend to be very political with my music, but with everything going on in the world at the moment, I feel as though the message here echoes with me today as much as it did the day I wrote it. The instrumentation you hear is harp, uillean pipes, Irish low whistle, sheng, and some other sound designy atmospheric bits.

This was also the first song I ever wrote in Swedish, which is a language I use on a daily basis since I've been living in Vaasa, Finland. I was so focused on using Finnish in my day-to-day life, but I began to properly let Swedish occupy a place in my limited brainspace around the time of writing this song, and I'm pleased to say my Swedish has only grown since!

Att önska fred,

Att vara med

Tillsammans här

Vem skulle kunna önska mer?

Stjärnan ovanför

Sjunger för att bli hörd

I denna natt

Hoppet har vaknat

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To wish for peace

To join

Together here

Who could even wish for more?

The star above

Sings to be heard

On this night

Hope has awoken