{"id":2364,"date":"2024-01-29T00:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/?page_id=2364"},"modified":"2024-02-26T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:15:57","slug":"darkthrone-forest-in-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/projects\/darkthrone-forest-in-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"DARKTHRONE FOREST IN THE DEEP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Johan-Bjorklund-webBWold7051-1.jpg 1731w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Johan Bj\u00f6rklund &#8211; percussion<br>Adrian Barstad Andresen &#8211; trumpet, goathorn<br>Maria Palmqvist &#8211; voice, percussion<br>Armand van Wijck &#8211; harmonica, flute<br><br>With support from The Swedish Arts Grants Commitee 2023.<br><br>The Forest as a safe haven or a really dangerous place and everything in between. The importance of the forest for us as individuals and for the entire world. <br>How do you transform this into music? Come and hear for yourself when we enter the Darkthrone Forest. At your own risk we welcome you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the winter of 2019 I took a walk in Slottskogen, Gothenburg. When passing Azaleadalen I noticed all the leaf-less trees, looking kind of vicious, mean and harsh. The similarity of the logo of legendary Norwegian Black Metal-band Darkthrone was striking me hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Darkthrone-Forest-3-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Darkthrone-Forest-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Darkthrone-Forest-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Darkthrone-Forest-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Darkthrone-Forest-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Darkthrone-Forest-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, 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The Forest as a safe haven or a really dangerous place and everything in between. The importance of the forest for us as individuals and for the entire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/projects\/darkthrone-forest-in-the-deep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;DARKTHRONE FOREST IN THE DEEP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1860,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364\/revisions\/2393"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johanbjorklund.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}