Sissel and I have been circling this territory for years, the place where the voice stops being a voice and becomes something else entirely. Something that has no name yet. Inner Lift is what happened when we stopped trying to explain it and just went there. All of it improvised, all of it live, no overdubs. Just two voices, loop machines, a zither, singing bowls, and whatever we found in the space between us. I'm drawn to what hasn't been heard before. Not as a concept, but as a physical sensation, that moment when a sound opens a door you didn't know was there. With Sissel, that happens constantly. We pull from everything: jazz, contemporary classical, ancient ritual, pure noise, and somehow it becomes its own world. Intimate and vast at the same time. Close enough to feel the breath, wide enough to get lost in. The album moves. It can be still as a held note and erupt into polyrhythmic layers in the same breath. It can feel like rain from inside a dream. That's not an accident, it's what the voice does when you stop guarding it. Inner Lift was nominated for Best Album at Danish Music Awards Jazz 2021. But honestly, what matters more is that it exists. That we made it into the territory and came back with something real.