My name is Emanuel Tägil. I will talk a bit about my new album ' Veni Veni.' The album is named after the psalm Veni Veni Emanuel.' It means something like 'Come Come' in Latin. The album's final track is called 'The Funnel Water Slide.' It's about one of those water slides that's shaped like a giant funnel. You jump into a pipe, and then you go into a room shaped like a big funnel leading down to a hole And there you fall back into the pool again. They're usually found at 'adventure water parks
.' I have a very dear childhood memory from one of these water slides. I realized that if you could stand up on your feet inside of the funnel, then you could run around and around instead of going down the hole. We have... Do we have any sound at all? Do we even have the mic? Hello? You weren't allowed to do that. They started screaming in the speakers that you should lie down on the slide. But if you ignored them, then you could just run lap after lap. Until you finally fell over and went down
the hole. Och även om... you knew that it was only a game after a while, it got essential not to fall. You, like, get terrified of the hole eventually. I think this water slide is a wonderful and good symbol of life. You try to run as many laps as you can. It's entertaining and frightening at the same time. You will fall eventually, and you do a bunch of stuff that isn't allowed; people scream at you, but others laugh and cheer on you. Exactly, keep your face like that. Look straight ahead. It
looks good when you sing. And if you're open to the concept of reincarnation, I don't know if I am really, but if you are Then all of this with falling back into the water, walking the spiral stairs back up again, making that journey again and again. Then all of that becomes an even more precise picture. Archaeological excavation in Botkyrka, Sweden. I think this song summarizes this album. And also, what it is I think I do as a songwriter and artist. Namely that there are symbols all around us
in everyday life and that these symbols are my starting point when I write my songs. And I don't care what anyone else's thought is about anything. Because to me, it is like this. This water slide, for example, is a symbol for all this that I just described. And that's all there is to it for me. I believe in God. But I don't think that God has got any plan at all Or that he/she is all mighty or even good. Nor do I believe that God has created the universe, which seems to be an eternity of darkne
ss and death. I think that God is trying to enter here. And that he/she is doing that through life Meaning that all that lives comes from God, that all living is God, parts of God. And that God succeeds in coming further and further into the world the more complex and reflective creatures that evolve. You could say that I believe in evolution as a godly creation process and that culture is evolution's hitherto highest form. "Veni Veni" is delivered from Handle With Care, Berlin. One could say, f
iguratively speaking, that we humans are like God's whole hand, which has succeeded in entering the universe now. whereas the first microorganisms were at the tip of the nail I believe that God wants to enter the universe to do something here. What…I don't know. "Veni Veni" was released on Messy Weekend Records on June 3, 2023 Do you see my socks now? No. No, good.
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