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During the Jokkmokk winter market in 2005, I invited people to my music studio in the middle of the market area, to record improvised music. I didn't expect it to lead to any recording, I just hoped to meet a few artists and make some new contacts.

But by a co-incidence, three people with very different background visited me at the same time, and we ended up recording an improvised one-minute song together just for the fun of it! The result didn't sound like anything I had ever done before… We managed to mix several types of traditional music with electronic sounds from a synthesizer and a drum machine - and it was a really fun thing to do!

The basic melody was made with a native americal double flute, which was played by Andreas Kornevall. The sound of the flute is amazing, I had never heard anything like it before. I added a dark background pad with a synthesizer just to see how the sounds would work together. Henrik Öberg recorded a simple drum beat, and it created a magic feeling to the recording. And when Jan-Ivar Rimpi added vocals in a traditional sami jojk fashion, the song was complete!

Unfortunally, the jojk recording was lost. The only copy of the song with the vocals is the live performance version of the song that was filmed by a television team from the Deutsche Welle who was there to make an interview with me. But here is the version that survived: Four free spirits - Meetings.mp3 (right-click, and select to save the link as a file!)