Music walk in Bodøsjøen from February 2025
Songwriters and musicians often have some "secret" places they draw inspiration from. Music walks offer a different and exciting listening experience, and will allow you to get to know and notice nature and sound together.
Haven't released music in 10 years
While Lisa enjoys the view in Bodøsjøen dominated by the mighty Børvasstindan, Lisa Dillan smiles as the strong wind challenges her balance. She reflects on her career, and looks forward to finally releasing music again.
Lisa started her singing career in Bodø Big Band around 1991. With her Quite Quiet Project, she has interpreted songs by Elvis Presley, a project that started as an idea in 2003. She and guitarist Asbjørn Lerheim have recorded albums in Nashville, the same place where Elvis Presley himself made many of his recordings, together with several musicians who were central to Elvis Presley's band, as well as musicians from KORK. In 2015, Dillan and Lerheim released the album Change of Habit - also based on Elvis Presley's music, this time with musicians Bugge Wesseltoft, Tord Gustavsen, Eivind Lønning and Norbert Putnam.
Lisa hasn't released any music in 10 years. During these years, she has felt a numbness over everything that has happened and is still happening in the world, but also in her private life. She experienced that the emotional spectrum reached saturation point.
– In the midst of this, I have an almost extreme need for focus and sound that highlights the closest and the smallest things, as a relief to the darkness of the big and heavy. Quiet, small spaces for reflection. Such spaces, unlike tabloid headlines, often create inward contact for me, and bring to life memories, events and a wealth of experiences. These spaces disconnect the dangerous and empty numbness, which naturally, and in self-defense against impotence and “too much”, flattens my emotional life.
Lisa Dillan
Desire to cure one's own numbness with a plate
As an attempt to cure her own numbness affected by everything that is happening in the world, Lisa has made an album. An album named "Jorda" after Terje Nilsen's strong song of the same name, and released 10 years after her previous album.
– The project “Jorda” after Terje Nilsen’s strong song of the same name is about the sum of impressions and imprints, not just on a personal level. The sound in 2023 is strongly affected by the brutality of our own timeline. We live in a time where warmongers and murderers are killing thousands of children and civilians to claim lands they believe they can call their own. This is happening while we humans are destroying our earth, and the climate is striking back with floods, pandemics and destruction. The record and the songs are a kind of way to cure our own numbness with hope. I hope that the record can become such an open and connecting space for more people, says Dillan.
A different listening experience
Lisa also felt the need to include the little things in the album release, which have meant so much to her, and has created an app called "Music Walk". This is an app where the songs are added to a specific point on the map, and can only be heard at that point.
– Songwriters and musicians often have some somewhat “secret” places they are inspired by. In the app “Musikkvandring” selected artists and musicians are invited to share some of their songs with you, in places they have chosen themselves. The app contains a map where the songs are plotted. To hear the songs, you must be at this location physically. The songs are activated in the app when you are within the circle on the map. When you go, you will hopefully have taken with you a slightly different listening experience, an imprint of a place and a nice walk, smiles Lisa.
The app is owned and operated by Kathrine Strøm and Lisa Dillan in the new Kjerringøy Kulturbruk, which is part of the upcoming Kjerringøy distillery, culture and small farm out at Vikan on Kjerringøy. During the spring, the shovel in the ground and construction of the farm building will begin, if all goes according to plan.
– It's exciting to listen – properly. Take the time to experience nature and sound together. Songs are like people – they take on a new and different life in different surroundings.
Lisa Dillan
3 songs are released in Bodøsjøen
Lisa Dillan's album is only released in the Musikkvandring app, and 3 points have been added to it. Bodøsjøen .
Lisa hopes that the album can give people a different and exciting listening experience, as well as encouraging them to get some fresh air and perhaps visit new places they may not have visited before, or even knew existed.
