Siv Jakobsen's photo diary for The Nordic Mellow

09 September 2017, 01:00

(Siv Jakobsen)

With her excellent debut album The Nordic Mellow recently released, Norwegian singer Siv Jakobsen has given Best Fit a look behind the scenes of the making of the record.

Siv Jakobsen: "All these photos were taken by photographer Carl Osbourn during a day of pre-production for The Nordic Mellow, with producer Matt Ingram and myself going through all my songs, fine-tuning them, figuring out which ones were to go on the record, and mapping out arrangement-ideas. We were spending a lot of time on the song "Shallow Digger", lashing out the song-form and building arrangement ideas, with Carl as a fly on the wall snapping photos of our process."

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"We're were working on arrangement ideas for the record here, likely for 'Shallow Digger', this is us discussing the build of the song, with me awkwardly visualising it."

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"Carl took some shots of me in the studio during a break, these are two of those shots."

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"I remember this well, we were figuring out the song-form for 'Shallow Digger' while Carl was at the studio and Matt was demonstrating a chord change idea. I play guitar by ear mostly, so he had to physically show me what chord he meant, rather than tell me the chord-name."

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"We recorded demos of all the songs during pre-production. We were figuring out the details of 'To Leave You' and ‘Change' in these shots."

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"These are also taken when we were working on 'Shallow Digger’. At this point we were working on the song form and mapping out arrangement ideas, and I remember this as a particularly fun moment during our time in the studio, playing around with the song a lot and ending up with a whole new format for it."

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"This was taken whilst working on rough ideas for the drums in 'Shallow Digger'. Matt is an extraordinary drummer, and I think this was the first time we actually played together. I remember getting goose-bumps during this - feeling like the song was being properly born right there and then."