A-ha lead singer Morten Harket is releasing his sixth solo album ‘Brother’. It comes four years after the famous Norwegian band split up. <br /><br />The album’s eponymous lead single sees Harket move away from the dance sound of his previous work to a soft ballad, delivered in his inimitable voice. For the lyrics, he turned to Norwegian poet Ole Sverre Olsen, with whom he already worked on “Wild Seed”. <br /><br />“This is a signature album, I would say, this is truly me as a solo artist, just like I believe the ‘Wild Seed’ album was. They are the two that have most in common for me,” says Harket. <br /><br />The singer describes shooting the video for ‘Brother’ – in which he is seen immersed in a pond up to his head – as quite a challenging experience: “They got me out of the water in-between sometimes. But I was there for a good duration,” he says. <br /><br />“And also to sing that song with water in your mouth and in your ears – I couldn’t hear the bloody track! It was like (covers his mouth and ears) and trying to lip sync to something like that, it was interesting.”<br /><br />‘Brother’ is out now. Morten Harket launches his promo tour in Hamburg, Germany in early May.
