Music, movies, books, friends and enemies.
Except for the music I've been listening to in secrecy by myself since I was a child, the music that my friends play affects and influences a lot, sometimes consciously and other times unconsciously. Here a short list:
Norwegian music: Ai Phoenix, Lars Wiik (Aluco), Empty Bottles Broken Hearts, Hotel Hotel, Einar Lunga, Real Ones and others in the Gjøa collective, Sir Dupermann, Rally, Herr Urheim, Herr Folkedal.
The pillars:
Incredible String Band, Vivaldi, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, old country blues, Smog/Bill Callahan, Will Oldham/Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Elliott Smith, Sandy Denny, John Fahey, Joni Mitchell, Steve Reich. In recent times Phosphorescent and David Pajo has become favorites of mine too.
Leiv Reed (born 1984 in Reed, Norway) is at first a glance singer-songwriter, mainly accompanied by an acoustic guitar. (ah, i'm writing this myself, so we'll just cut the third-person here). Like with everything and everyone else, new depths are revealed if only given time and oportunity. Making my shabby home-recordings has been one of the greatest joys for the last ten years now. I've recorded some with friends aiming for a more "professional" sounding whole, but we haven't quite ended up with the songs and the results we hoped for, so I've been somewhat stranded in my own lonely process for some time. For those who take the time to go thru the songs, and love them for what they are, I promise you there'll be an album soon (within a year hopefully). And I am grateful for every listener I have.
This is a picture of my parents and me, I like them alot.
Last.fm is a great place to find new music, maybe better than myspace. Visit my music site at last.fm. I upload everything I make there for you to spread all around, for free!
On my Facebook site you get regular updates and exclusive downloads and streams. Use iLike to dedicate songs to your friend.
On YouTube you'll find some music videos and clips from concerts. Become a subscriber to get updates when new movies are uploaded.
How I made my profile: I used Dave & Jay's amazing myspace editor, and a fair share of my own nerdy sides, Photoshop and html, yup.
" Hole in the World" is a beautiful song!!! I think its not fair that, we cant buy the Cds, the ones I saw on internett is just for down loads- and all the best ones are mainly on your player.... Have great week peace & light Zoha
you should also try to gather some germanygigs...i really love your tunes.i had such a brilliant time and met all these great people. i hope you are fine, tim
hey leiv...yes, tim is fantastic and he's become a very good friend...i put you up there too...have a great weekend!...i'm off to work in a beautiful garden today...and the weather is perfect. take care and i will be back here more often. a.
Good Day- Sending my best from me to you- I hope all is well... I hope the summer is going well for you.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
I know you have been busy in the studio....
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give Bananas a Big Hug from me- Smile: :) :) :)
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
I'll have a word with the people who run the night i'm sure they'd like your stuff. i'll keep youy posted. how many people play live with you? what instruments.
