Arash Taheri

Review: Vårt Land

“Tom Roger Aadland’s Norwegian interpretations of Blonde on Blonde has you wondering if Bob Dylan was really from the west coast of Norway…Aadland not only translates Dylan’s lyrics, he brings them into a context recognisable to Norwegians: In the cobblestone streets of Holberg’s Bergen, or in a coastal Jæren landscape that Aadland knows well. With a respect and an understanding of Dylan’s original lyrics, he makes small twists to the language, so that rhyme and rhythm, sound and meaning, scents and perseptions fall naturally in place in a Norwegian setting”

Vårt Land