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Lasse Passage is currently spending his summer vacation with his 90 year old father in a fisherman’s village in Norway. On a daily basis, they climb aboard a boat and head out to sea, fishing for crabs and mackerel amide the fresh salt air. It’s a routine that runs in sharp contrast to the majority of Passage’s adult life, a life of travel and adventure, of music making in foreign lands. Passage’s latest album <\/span>Sunwards<\/span><\/i> was built in time with the swing of his usual existence: a trip to Mexico, complete with missed rendezvous with friends, a broken guitar, and a deepening love.<\/span><\/p>\n Continuing in the vein of 2015’s <\/span>Stop Making Sense and Start Making Success Vol 1, 2, 3<\/span><\/i> & 4,<\/span> S<\/span>unwards<\/span><\/i> continues Passage’s explorer narrative, bringing the listener into the sweet, sensual heat of a tourist’s gaze. In Passage’s world, one can picture soft linen sheets, the smell of tamales wafting up from the street, a lover showering in the next room. “I lead a complex life,” Passage tells AudioFemme. “It’s good years and it’s bad years. It’s been good years the last years now.” He’s referring to the upbeat nature of this album, with songs like his recent single “Heartbeat” talking directly to his current relationship with choreographer Ingrid Berger Myhre: “I didn’t play with open cards before\/but the things you trigger is letting me know\/it’s something\/something that could be good and true\/you increase my heartbeat\/you increase my heartbeat.”<\/span><\/p>\n