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Much has happened since Fay WIldhagen (pronounced F-EYE) released her second album Borders in 2018, where she was nominated for Spellemann in the categories indie- and producer of the year. Since then, she has toured the country on sold-out club tours and played at most of the country's major festivals, including a magnificent performance during Øyafetivalen (NOR). It is the live songs of Fay really come to fruition and together with a stellar team of musicians new experiences are formed each time. It felt important for Fay to challenge the pop genre and age we are in. The result, Leave Me to the Moon (Live in Oslo), was recorded in Oslo Concert Hall in November 2019. The 12-inch is released on Record Store Day April 18 and digital Friday, April 24.
• Leave Me to the Moon (Live in Oslo) is an attempt to take back the music as I remembered it was for me in the beginning, playing band exercises in my mom's basement where we figured out how to play it together. I have for a long time felt an urge and a longing to get back together, and all it entails; playing in the same room, responding to each other's tone language, and thus breathing a life into the songs they otherwise only get in concert.
• That's why I put together a band with a multitude of artistic qualities from different disciplines that didn't necessarily know each other before. In this way, we were all forced to lean forward, listen to each other and make room for each other's musical personalities. Freedom had a framework I had prepared, but with space and space for the musicians' free intuition and interpretation. The new arrangements have been stripped down to the core of the songs - in the quest to find just that.
For Fay, this project is about community, interaction, improvisation and play - while feeling as if everything is at stake. One of Fay's biggest role models, Ane Brun, also contributes to the album.
• The recording of "When I Let Go" is definitely seen as one of the highlights of my career so far, and it felt so surreal and big to have an artist with as much weight as Ane Brun. She gave the song something I didn't know it had.