The Beauty Of Fake

The Last Hurrah!! is the project of Norwegian guitarist HP Gundersen plus a jamboree of international players and singers. Based in Bergen in western Norway, Gundersen has a long history in Norwegian music and beyond. As a producer he discovered and nurtured the career of Sondre Lerche, one of Norway's most successful international exports. An encounter with a Gambian kora-playing folk musician a few years ago was life-altering and, in his own words, took him to a new level of musical understanding. Afterwards he would sit with his guitar and play the same chord for hours, lost in a sonic whirl that induced deep meditation or even sleep. He disciplined himself to stay on one note, but found that it finally made him hear the note for the first time. 'I shed twenty years of rust,'  he says. The goal of The Last Hurrah!! is to create songs that slot into a cosmic pattern - no beginning, no end, just a steady flow of eternal ecstasy.