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The past weeks have brought a number of thoughtful reviews of my remastered album Love Has Increased With The Passing Of Time, and I wanted to briefly reflect on some of what has been said.
One line that keeps returning to me is: “Some artists accumulate a career. Others build a world.” It’s a powerful way of describing a lifelong relationship with music, and I’m grateful to see my work understood in that light.
Several writers have highlighted the independence behind my journey — a path shaped not by imitation, but by “relentless creative independence,” and experiences that have “quietly but permanently reshaped” my musical language.
The album itself has been described as “unaccompanied and unadorned,” where “this nakedness… makes it breathtaking.” That simplicity was always at the core of the recording.
I’ve also been moved by how the interpretations were received — that I “inhabit” I Hope It’s Spring For You, that Manhã de Carnaval carries a “luminous melancholy,” and that Here, There and Everywhere reveals its “harmonic richness” and inner architecture.
Another phrase that stayed with me described the playing as having “the cohesion and spatial logic of great architecture,” where each phrase connects naturally and with purpose.
Perhaps most meaningful of all was the reflection that this release feels “not as nostalgia but as revelation.”
That is something I carry with me.
To everyone who has listened, written, and taken the time to engage with the music — thank you. Your words mean more than I can fully express.
— Odd-Arne Jacobsen
