Asgeir Aarøen To The Only One (From Mount Hornelen, Norway)

Asgeir Aarøen "To The Only One "
Asgeir Aarøen, composer, guitars, shakers and palmas.
Olav Stener Olsen, cello
Magnus Rød Haugland, double bass
Johannes Ulveraker, drums
Inge "Engelen" Engelsvold, keyboards and mix/mastring.
Film and editing made by Raimond Mydland
Drone by Carl Phillip Mydland
Additional drone by James Thomas O`Reilly and Jørund Nygård
Beautiful woman in the video, Maricken Foss Iversen

Filmed at Mount Hornelen, in beautiful Nordfjord, Norway.
Its the highest sea-cliff in Europe, 860 meter high.
Also filmed at Vestkapp and the beach Ervik in Nordfjord,
and Tungenes Fyr, Ølberget and Varhaug Gamle Kirkegård in Jæren, Norway.

The guitar is a flamenco guitar made by Valeriano Bernal, Spain.

Personal comments:
I did grov up not far from Hornelen, in Selje and Sandane(Nordfjord), but did not pay much attention to the Mountain in my childhood.
In 1995 I saw a program on Norwegian broadcast (NRK) "Til topps med Toralv", where famous actor Toralv Maurstad is hiking in that Mountain with a camera team , and I got a bit fascinated.
But of some reason I did first hike there the summer of 2019, guided by my brother Harald.
It was hard to walk all the way (from Hunsgard), but on the top it felt like coming to another planet, the stone is so special, and the view is epic.

This song is very special to me, composed 10 years ago,
and I wanted to make a video of it, as beautiful as possible.
It was important to have lot of energy, cause the song have lots of energy itself.
Of some reason the wild idea of making the video on Hornelen came just a couple of months before we did make it august this year (2020). In my mind the idea did occur, and I got obsessed with it, and finally I just had to do it.
I did watch the program again about Toralv Maurstad several times in this spring/summer, and its part of the reason I did make the video, also inspired by the amazing music in the film by Øystein Sevåg.

I am very happy to show the nature in my childhood area, Nordfjord, its deep personal, and it feels like a dream to have done this.
The team, me, Olav, Magne, Raimond and Carl Phillip, did walk from Berleneset all the way to the top.
It was much longer and harder than expected, 6 hours to walk up, and if I had known how hard it would be, I probably would not filmed there.
I am so thankful for the teamwork, we made it!!
Later I was also lucky to receive drone footage from James Thomas O`Reilly from Australia(!) and Jørund Nygård (Norway), and everything did fell into place.
I am so happy with Maricken´s beautiful appearance in the video, she give it depth and beauty.
We did film her in Tungenes Fyr; Ølberg and Varhaug Gamle Kirkegård, close to Stavanger.
The end in the video with me and Olav is filmed in the monastary/beach in Ervik, west in Nordfjord.
Its been a very exotic place for me all the way since my childhood.