I knew I wanted to make a vocal album when I was finishing Vespertine.
And I knew since I was a teenager that one day I would make a vocal album.
And to my mind, the greater part of this album is in fact connected to the time
when I was 17, 18, but I am quite preoccupied with that period now.

It's funny how sometimes when you are 29, you get really preoccupied with the time when you were 6.
Then when you are 19, a tunnel all of a sudden opеns directly into the time whеn you were 22.
You know, it's some kind of strange continuity,
and I now feel like I have some kind of a time tunnel or a time loop straight into when I was 17, 18 years old.
When I was still a member of Kukl and concentrating a lot on voices
and perhaps finding my identity as a singer.

I did some live pieces with a drummer, Sigtryggur, where we exclusively used voices and drums.
I was working in a studio where I did a lot of voices
and added only drums, nothing else.
So, a lot of this album is something I put on hold back then.
And then I went on to do a hundred other things.
Now I somehow feel like I have access to it again, so as a musician, that's where I'm at.
But the outcome, of course, depends on where you are placed at the time you do that kind of stuff.
And I think to a certain extent, maybe moving to New York influenced me,
and then the 9/11 episode and the crisis that is going on in the world today.
And to a certain extent, all this made me very interested in primitive elements,
in something that was before all this happened,
or like an individual before entering society.
When you use no tools, nothing, only what you have:
The voice.