Time passes, but the best traditions remain — including my annual Christmas greeting. Over the past year, Freddy’s Friends has become Freddy Gustavsson, so the design looks a little different now. If you’re visiting the site for the first time, a warm welcome to you.

This year, I had the chance to fulfil a longtime dream: releasing an album with my own music. The album is called Blissful in December and came out this autumn. The music is instrumental — mostly piano, flute, and strings. It carries a Christmas theme and explores friendship, longing, and love. You can read more about the album here, or listen to the tracks on Spotify.

This year’s Christmas video is “Waiting for Santa,” one of the songs from the album.

With this, I’d like to wish my family, friends, and colleagues a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. What will 2018 bring? Who knows — let’s meet here again in exactly one year and find out!

Hopeful greetings from Vallda,

Freddy