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The Dream We Carry

by Sverre Knut Johansen

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The Dream We Carry 06:55
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Carpe Diem 06:37
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Mountains Will Open 06:06
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The Dream Will Open 03:49
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Music by Sverre Knut Johansen produced between nov-des 2023
Soft plugins and the Sequential PRO3
Mastered by eMastered

The title of this album "the dream we carry" is translated from the Norwegian poem "det er den draumen" by Olav H Hauge (1908-1994).

Compositions on this album are mainly based on this poem.

THE DREAM WE CARRY

It’s that dream that we carry with us
that something wonderful will happen,
that it has to happen,
that time will open,
that the heart will open,
that doors will open,
that the mountains will open,
that wells will leap up,
that the dream will open,
that one morning we’ll slip in
to a harbor that we’ve never known.

The poem "Det er den draumen" by Olav H. Hauge is used both at funerals, confirmations and weddings and was voted Norway's best poem of all time.

OHauge's widow, visual artist Bodil Cappelen, herself believes that "the dream we carry" is a poem that lives its own life.
- He was not particularly good at giving people explanations of what he had meant by a poem, they had to find that out for themselves. Any interpretation can be the right one, says Cappelen.
She herself has pondered what it is that has made so many people fall in love with this poem.
- I think that this is a mythical poem about things that everyone carries within them, a kind of dream. And if they don't have it clear to them, then it's a longing.
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Olav H. Hauge is the foremost Norwegian poet of the post-war period.
Many of his poems have become jointly owned and have entered Norwegian literary history as classics. Now Samlaget has collected over 100 of Hauge's most beautiful poems in a magnificent gift book.
Hauge's poems have reached the far reaches of the world and have been retold into almost 30 different languages. Hauge has a unique appeal across generations, and his poems have made him one of our dearest poets.

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released December 29, 2023

Music by Sverre Knut Johansen produced between nov-des 2023
Soft plugins and the Sequential PRO3

Photo by Ronny Solheim
Album art design by Sverre Knut Johansen

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Also Artist On Spotted Peccary Music. My first album was "Distant Shore" (1994).

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