GISKE’s "The Sound of Birdsong" doesn’t so much begin as it seeps into the room, like the pale, perpetual twilight of a Norwegian summer night where sleep feels like a theoretical concept. This is a song for the space between the last page of a book and turning off the light; a four-minute float in that strange, conscious stillness when the world is quiet...

El Tov - Remember Me (Official Video) The song is based on the story of The Penitent Thief or the Good Thief known in Catholicism as Dismas. He is one of two unnamed thieves in the Biblical book of Luke’s account of the crucifixion of Jesus.  It describes Dismas asking Jesus to “remember him” when Jesus reaches his kingdom. The other, known as the impenitent thief,...