Music on myspace

I'll start out this blog properly by going through a couple of songs, currently available on my webpage on myspace.

The song Just is an example of my collaborations with Singer-Songwriter Martin Høybye.

What we're trying to do, is fuse his songwriting, rooted in country music and other such americana, and my electronica, rooted in european art music and nordic folk, among many other influences. Hopefully the fusion brings a whole new genre to the world; at least, that's the aim.

For various reasons, the project has been lying still for some time now. But just the other day, Martin stopped by for coffee, and he brought tracks for no less than 7 new songs!

The first sketches are shaping up as we speak (ehrm ... type), so look forward to new examples of this way of working soon.

Soldag is the first result of my collaborations with guitarist Mark McGouirk. Mark is based in Atlanta, US, and shares with me a passion for nordic folk music, which had him contacting me several years ago, to propose a musical collaboration. After about a year or so of sudden outbursts of activity on either end, punctuated by long periods of each of us being busy with work, other projects, family or whatever else, "Soldag" was born as a first result. I composed, played piano and synth, and mixed. Mark plays the guitars. I hope you will enjoy it.

In the meantime, we continue to create music every once in a while, but the world turns around us, and we're not the same anymore. We did finish another track recently, but this one is a completely different ballgame, with electric guitar pads happening all over all sorts of electronic treatments. Unfortunately, the track is too long for myspace, but anyone interested (and able to figure out the Danish GUI) are most welcome to check out "The Lakeside Encounter" on monsdrum.mymusic.dk.

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Admitted, a lot of this post is copy+paste from my myspace blog, but you have to start somewhere. I hope you'll enjoy my productions. More to follow ....