Without Knowing

"During a composer's residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada, I wrote two major choral pieces, Before the West, a complex, rhythmical 7-minutes piece, and this, Without Knowing. Perhaps a simple response to the complexity I was exploring at the time. Pablo Neruda's words are overflowing with love, warmth and compassion, and my job when setting it to music was mostly to not do too much with it. […] The piece to me sounds it’s best when sung that way. Simple, without dramatic gestures – almost like a folk tune, or even a pop song." – Henrik Dahlgren