'Hummelfjell' is a collaboration between Alexander and the Norwegian musician, Maria Yli Myre. In Alexander's words: 

"I received an email from someone in Norway called Maria. She introduced herself, and said she'd ‘made a recording of some melodies’ when listening to my piano piece, Snøhetta. Inspired by the mountain, Hummelfjell, in Eastern Norway, she went on to write that 'the lyrics are my own as I heard them while looking at this mountain, where I was, while recording it.’ 

I remember putting on the headphones to listen, touched that someone had been inspired by my music to compose something. Snøhetta is one of Norway's largest mountains, and I wrote the piece when staying close to its lower slopes, while a north wind was driving cold rain and banks of cloud past the windows. I pressed the playback button, not sure what to expect. It might, perhaps, be a poorly made recording of something completely at odds with my own creativity. But I was immediately drawn into the music, carried away by it back into the Norwegian mountains that inspired me so deeply years ago, and I felt Maria's words and music were so sensitively woven into my original piano piece. I felt inspired to share it more widely the moment I listened to it. 

And the recording, made by Maria in her cabin, was perfect. You can almost hear the surrounding mountains in the spaces between the notes. So we kept it, and that original recording is what you hear in the release.”

The single is being released in 2025 to mark ten years since Alexander's 650km pilgrimage from Oslo to Trondheim in 2015. With beautiful artwork by Alexander's brother, Edward C Campbell - which represents the two mountains of Snøhetta and Hummelfjell - the combined work is a powerful and heartfelt evocation of the landscapes that inspired it. 

Lyrics - In Full

I vinternatten er vi lys 

I vinternatten er vi lys 

I vinternatten er vi lys 

Kjenner freden i vårt hus

I vårt hus

Ved de store hvite fjell 

Finner vi ly 

I vårt hus

I vinternatten er vi lys

I vårt hus

Mens vinden flyr forbi 

Kjenner bruset av glede i vårt hus

Kjenner gleden bre seg ut 

Kjenner bruset av glede 

Kjenner gleden bre seg ut 

Kjenner gleden bre seg ut

Kjenner bruset av glede i vårt hus 

Kjenner freden bre seg ut 

Kjenner freden bre seg ut 

I denne tid av is og snø

Kjenner freden bre seg ut 

Freden bre seg ut

Lyrics (English translation)

In the winter night we are light 

Feel the peace in our house 

Near the large white mountains we are finding shelter 

While the wind flies by 

Feeling the effervescence of joy 

In our house

Feeling the peace spreading out 

In this time of ice and snow 

‘Hummelfjell’, by Maria Yli Myre