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START EVT. NEDEFRA, HVIS DU ER NY.
Over de næste måneder skriver og indspiller jeg et album helt fra bunden.
Det er altid en spændende og nervepirrende process – og denne gang meget anderledes fra arbejdet på mine tidligere plader, fordi jeg ikke er på farten. For første gang i 10 år er jeg ét sted under hele processen. Angstprovokerende i sig selv!
Du kan følge lidt med i rejsen via bloggen, hvor jeg vil forsøge at fortælle lidt om det hele og efterhånden, som vi kommer længere frem, præsentere musik-bidder og video fra studiet.
Jeg håber, det bliver fornøjelig læsning – og at du glæder dig til ny musik!
As always there’s bound to be one stupid thing in way of everything running smoothly.
This time it’s a cable. One big, fat cable that was meant to have arrived from Germany as this kind of cable can’t be bought here on this island.
We can get by without it, I’m promised – but not really. The atmosphere this morning is tense and a fair amount of swear words have been beamed in the direction of a certain German company.
Woke up with a faint taste of blood in my mouth this morning.
It’s getting serious!
I have one last day to get ready before we go from the innitial writing / studio building phase to the next: recording!
That’s when the first important decisions are made, tracks are locked down, the songs will start to find their final form and sound.
I’ve never been LESS prepared to go into the studio!
But that’s a good thing. It’s deliberate. I’m excited about it!
A new and freer approach.
If you go into the studio with 15 tightly written songs, you’ll sometimes struggle with the exercise of pushing music and arrangements onto the song. There’ll be lots of situations where the music (and the musicians even more so) wants to go off in one direction but the song is saying “Hey, get back here!” It’s not the most musical way to do it.
We have an American bass player arriving in Iceland tomorrow and then about a week to lay down drums and bass and whatever else we feel like.
I can’t wait to hear some of these songs with amazing musicians on them.
Imagine… so far it’s just rough sketches on the “memo” app on my phone and suddenly it’ll sound like real music, with depth, size, nuances, dynamics, heart, soul, sweat.
I hope I’m gonna get completely lost in it this time. Let the control freak take the week off and let the guys’ sublime musicianship take the music where it wants to go. I think I’m ready to leave my comfort zone…
The production’s first strand of grey head hair has been found and picked so as to not spread to the surrounding area.
I’m back from a quick trip to Copenhagen.
Been back to the places where I used to hang.
It’s always inspiring to go back and meassure the distance between where you were and where you are.
The gap is bound to tell some stories.
So I did the interview for the American mag I mentioned last Saturday.
I recently saw this image of “Being a musician today”:
It’s very true :) – and you can add “having a snappy answer to ANY question” to the list.
It’s usually fun giving interviews. I enjoy it. If the questions are inventive enough to require more than the “standard answers”. Questions that make you think about what you’re doing.
I’m not good at snappy answers to short questions, though: What’s your favourite album ever? What’s the ONE thing you want the world to know? What’s THE biggest moment of your carreer? What’s THE most fun thing that has happened on tour this year? What’s your favourite quote? What’s the best piece of advice you were ever given?
Would you know what to say?
I was never able to boil anything down like that. My favourite food? Entirely depends on my mood. Best piece of advice? Depends on the situation. Biggest moment of my carreer? Where do I even begin?
Of course you just take your pick. Or lie? It doesn’t matter at the end of the day. It’s all story-telling.
But I’m struggling with the same thing in my writing. I’ve always been looking to boil everything – living, loving, being – down to a few simple “truths”, in brackets.
The short mantras that would answer ANY question in life. But I usually find when I’ve written a song with a certain conclusion, I’ll feel like writing a song that says the complete opposite.
“Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to go slow”
Yes, but sometimes the fastest way to get there is to go FAST!
And sometimes if you wanna hold on you gotta hold on tight!
A girl once emailed me, slightly indignant, saying “How can you say THIS in one song and then seem to say the opposite in another!!? Where do you stand? – I’m confused!”
Don’t worry, so am I.
But it’s all about balance, isn’t it? Every day is a balancing act. Some days you gotta lean 3% more to the right, the next day you gotta swing your arms to get back to your centre. Maybe that’s why I was never good at giving advice. Or taking it for that matter. You can’t teach balance. That’s all about practice.
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