#Torstein Flakne

[shinsui-f-works]

Help!For Japan 2012. I've written several times on Instagram and Facebook, but I only discovered FAIR WARNING in January this year.

Why now? You might ask.

The reason for this was that music was not particularly important in my life.

････Until I heard FAIR WARNING.

So I also learnt this year that Tommy Heart organised a charity for Japan and released this song with other artists just after the Great East Japan Earthquake 13 years ago.

Osaka, where I live, was not affected at this time.

But I have experienced a fire once.

At that time I was helped by my neighbours and was very moved by the help I received from others.

Disasters are very frightening and not something I want to experience too often.

However, it is in these times that we can help each other, strengthen our bonds with others and feel grateful to them.

We Japanese were very happy to have been helped and encouraged by Tommy Heart and the other artists who participated.

It's long overdue, but I made this video to thank Tommy and all the wonderful artists who took part in this charity.

Original Song by Jaded Heart

（thank you to Mr.P.F for teaching me this.）

Video editing by @shinsui_f_works

[les-portes-du-sud]

[whatodoo-norway]

Claudia Scott og Torstein Flakne akustisk - Fredrikstad, Norway | 3 Mar, 2023.

Find out more / Get Tickets.

[queeninlove]

swear im the only person here that's obsessed with these guys 😩

[wclassicradio]

[mote-historie]

Stage Dolls, Love Don't Bother Me, 1991.

This music video was recorded in the Mojave Desert, California in 1991 with eg. Kate Moss (17) in one of the roles and the song was also included in the most popular film in Norway that year «Frida – med hjertet i hånden». (x)

[harketspetter]

Favourite 'Parts' in Morten's Solo Discography.

Five thousand miles I'm away from you

Drifting by the Spanish steps tonight

Guess you've got my number

Guess you got my line

Guess you've got my number

Should I be on your mind

~ Spanish Steps (Wild Seed, 1995)

Songwriters: Kjetil Bjerkestrand / Morten Harket / Havard Rem / Torstein Flakne

Themes: Distance, spaced out feelings

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Leave them stranded on their island

Treat them to the tune of silence

Red is the cross that covers out shame

Every Kingdom, every land

Has it's heart in the common land

Silently the tide shifts the sand

~East Timor (Wild Seed, 1995)

Songwriters: Morten Harket / Havard Rem / Geir Kolbu / Henning Dahl

Themes: Cold War, bystander effect, Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, Effects of proxy wars on Innocent civilians

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But as long as you are heroes

in the movies

And the turtle is safe

In the Caribbean Sea

While the power of nations

Set the rules

Still I have got no one lying next to me

~ Movies ( Letter From Egypt, 2008)

Songwriters: Marcus Vest / Tromel Bridges Demario / Ashanti Douglas / Irving D Lorenzo (irv Gotti) / Matthew Miller / Gerard Thomas / Reginald Antonio Wiggins

Themes: Fantasy, Loneliness

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Still you wake up to the morning sun

And you're looking back on all the fun

When you think you've lost

Though you may have won

When you've got to slow down 'cause

There's no time to run

~The One You Are ( Letter From Egypt, 2008)

Songwriters: Morten Harket / Kjetil Bjerkestrand / Ole Olsen

Themes: Mental Health, Resilience, Self-worth

[bodoposten]

Alexandra Jones fra Bodø kan vinne Riis-prisen 2022

Alexandra Jones fra Bodø kan vinne Riis-prisen 2022

Nå er det klart hvilke 20 ungdommer som får delta i det nye, innovative ungdomsprosjektet Riis-prisen 2022. Alexandra Jones fra Bodø er en av de som kan vinne. Artistene Tora Dahle Aagård og Torstein Flakne samt bildekunstner Oda Victoria Reitan er klare som mentorer og attpåtil ligger det 80 000 kr i en prispott som prosjektdeltakerne kan være med og kjempe om. De 20 ungdommene kommer fra 19…