Hege Brynildsen - Blue Birds Black Knights (2022) Hi Res

Somebody will argue that there are too few ghost stories in popular music. Of course there had to be a Halden/ Norway singer/ songwriter to address this condition.

Four years after her third album, When my man comes to town, Hege Brynildsen is ready with her new album, Blue Birds black Knights. The album includes the song «Belltower haunted by a Ghost», inspired by the historic city of Halden´s most enduring ghost story, «The White Lady». A tragic love story that acted out on the steep walls of Fredriksten fortress in the early eighteen hundreds. A hundred years after Fredriksten and Halden entered the dramatic European history as the place where Swedish king Carl XII got shot with a bullet that went straight through his head and ended Swedish imperial ambitions.

But Hege´s song is first and foremost a celebration of her home town´ s very special musical environment that has fostered some of Norway´ s most renowned musicians and has a vital studio scene. A modern day local version of Muscle Shoals.