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Norwegian poet Karin Haugane published her beautiful and aching poem "Du som fremmed” in Oktavfeltet – Kjærlighetsdikt (Gyldendal 2001). Ratkje composed the music together with her husband Frode Haltli on commission from Josefine viseklubb, a local singer-songwriter club in Oslo, the same year. The sung text is about the closeness in a love relationship and the simultaneous feeling of being strangers to each other. It starts like this: “jeg legger hjertet mitt / inntil kroppen din, fremmede // fordi våre sorger er større enn gud / mister dagene sin blå tid" [...] Our translation: “I lay my heart / close to your body, stranger // because our sorrows are greater than God / the days lose their blue time” [...]

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from R​Ö​KKUR, released November 10, 2023

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Maja S. K. Ratkje Svartskog, Norway

“Anyone who has seen or heard Ratkje perform live will know what a superb musician she is, and one who can genuinely be said to be extending the expressive range of the voice through technical and technological means. Her work is celebratory and inclusive, an energising rallying call to those who are curious enough to peek out from behind the curtain of mainstream mediocrity.”
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