Mood Music
An elegant melancholy pervades even if it takes a long time to reach the ears of Everything To Everyone, the fourth solo album from Bjørn Riis, as the guitarist once again spreads his musical wings outside of Norwegian prog mainstays Airbag. Drawing inspiration from Dante’s Inferno and exploring questions around how we present ourselves to the world in the title track or face temptation in The Siren, it’s an album that could have been born on a lonely, windswept hillside under a grey Scandinavian winter sky. But that’s not quite the case.
“I think a lot of people have this image of us Norwegians sitting in a cabin on some mountaintop and it’s raining and dark, but most of the stuff I write is done back and forth to work on the subway,” says Riis. Apparently, all the moodiness is in the music, not the man, who sits happily writing away with his headphones on during his daily
