“God dag mitt barn” [Good morning my child]

Strindberg’s letters to his daughter become a pop album with great-grandchild Anders Wyller

“Good morning, my child, may I ask you something, how are you going to cope?” 

This is the start of the new album by Anders Wyller. 

Anders is the great-grandchild of August Strindberg. His paternal grandmother was the outcome of a passionate encounter between the aging Strindberg and the 30 years younger Norwegian actress diva Harriet Bosse. They had a child together before their brief marriage dissolved. This was just before Norway liberated itself from the union with Sweden. Strindberg wrote a number of letters to his child, and the child’s grandson Anders Wyller has now written songs based on elements from some of these letters.

This has now become the album “God dag mitt barn”, one of the most important releases by KKV this winter. The vocal tracks were recorded in Strindberg's apartment on Drottninggatan in Stockholm, which has been preserved and later turned into a museum. The additional instrument tracks were added in Rainbow Studio in Oslo, led by Anders in collaboration with Sverre Thorstensen, who also plays guitar, electric piano, organ and pedal organ on this production. Other musicians are Erland Dahlen (drums, percussion, saw), Julie Kleive (backup vocals), Torjus Eggen (bass), Sunniva Shaw (cello, backup vocals), Håkon Brunborg (viola, pedal steel), Magnus Tenge (guitars, lap steel) and Trygve Seim (saxophones).