Grey & Purple Songbook is a text-driven music project from Oslo blending storytelling and melody. Their new single “Over the Blue Sky” reflects themes of morning calm, gratitude, and universal serenity.
1. “Over the Blue Sky” captures a peaceful, almost cinematic morning feeling. What moment or emotion first sparked the idea for this song?
The motivation for writing the text/song to “Over the Blue Sky” is my personal experience starting an early morning at a mountain cabin, looking out on the snow covered landscape outside with clear blue sky and a bright sun shining. That gives a rewarding and intense feeling of gratitude and joy. This feeling easily facilitates a serene moment of reflection.
2. Your project begins with storytelling through text before music is created. How does that approach shape the final sound and message?
Both creators behind the artist name Grey and Purple Songbook are socially engaged persons and important social and human issues are important to us. We therefore decided early on that we wanted melodies with lyrics about topics that are important to us, and that we believe have a resonance with our listeners. The text is a very central and important part of the creation- process. We hope it results in melodies with a message and that the songs give “food” both for the mind as well as for the heart. And that the songs have an impact also after the song has been played.
3. Many listeners find comfort in songs about simple everyday moments. Why do you think morning serenity is such a universal theme?
That is not an easy question to answer, but I think many of us looks at the mornng hours as the start of something, hopefully nice and good. It gives many of us a serene moment during the day where we get the opportunity to feel a little bit of our own thoughts and feelings. That is very nice to be able to do, once in a while.
4. What do you hope listeners personally take away or reflect on when hearing this track for the first time?
I hope the song will both give a nice feeling emotionally both through a text that invites to reflection on the value of small things in life, things that we in a hectic daily life do not get the time to reflect over. And a tune that invites to a “sing along-feeling” or contributing to a good feeling.
5. What makes “Over the Blue Sky” stand out in the Grey & Purple Songbook catalog and why is it significant for the project?
The song “Over the Blue Sky” is a song that stands out in the collection as a text and tune that has a spesific focus on the morning hours, with serenity, no stress and the possibility to reflect on things that we maybe otherwise do not have so much time to reflect over. The song is unique in it’s own, but is also part of a greater project giving voice to music/songs with a “message”.
6. After this release, how do you envision the next chapter of Grey & Purple Songbook evolving creatively?It is of course difficult to predict the future, but both of us that stands behind this project, The Grey and Purple Songbook, has the vision of continue to create and produce texts and music that convey a message we think is important. At the same time, we are aware that text and music are closely connected. We are therefore very concerned that the music supports the text. We hope the texts and the music from The Grey and Purple Songbook will reach many listeners world-wide, because we love writing and creating music that the listeners like and enjoy. For us, as I think for many, many others, music is life.
Thank you for the opportunity to tell a little about the vision behind the project Grey and Purple Songbook, and the creative process behind creating the texts and the music.
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