09 Feb 2011 — Tonje Thilesen
I can almost hear the crisp sound of the water flowing over my skin while swimming through a pitch black lake in the middle of the night. The trees form a perfect circle around me, pointing their elegant silhouettes up at the night sky above me like sharp, but peaceful arrows. And like soft rain that falls from the sky an early October morning, light finds it way down.
And that is just about as deep as I'm going tonight. This is Bendik, the name of a boy but the body of a girl behind it,
Silje Halstensen from Bergen, Norway. Together with some helping hands, Silje crafts together foggy ambient pop from a wide, dim landscape that can make your heart skip a beat – or sometimes, if the condition is right, even stop completely. With her music being both freezing and warming at the same time, it makes me wish we lived in this calming, beautiful darkness for eternity.
Bendik is silence, or as we also call it,
stillhet – and the mellow sound of her accent brings out the magic of Siljes voice in a way that I think is hard to find in a language not so close to your heart. Honestly. Just listen.
Bendik - Stille
Bendik - Og tankene
