So I sat down to do 'my version of a pop song', since Raz laid down the gauntlet. It went completely wrong for me.

I started by listening to radio in the car on my way home. Already here I should have seen it coming. Skip to the end.... I wound up feeling a bit nauseous, disliking the world and generally feeling a bit half-hearted/arsed.

So when I finally made it to my computer, I simply wound up doing a one take improvisation using my voice, my ukulele, and Gleetchlab 3. Which is a good thing too since it helped me feel a lot better about things.

Anyway, an incidental by product was this piece of ambient music, clocking in at a little over 15 min.
AnotherLongWaveGoodbye

Feeling particularly unoriginal tonight... so here's a cover of weatherman by nick drake.

weatherman

Started off noodling this little ditty for the littlebabyman... he either laughs or falls asleep, both of which are great

A song to those not yet here...

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Farmer Bob - 1st and only victim of the green revolution
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Farmer bob is such a son of a bitch
we'd like to stick him in a fridge for the fun of it
but first we'll take him out and cut him to mince
or maybe milk him half to death, so he'll see how it is

sure it's Bob who feeds us
and puts a roof over our heads
but the pig pen is a pig sty
and the battery for the hens
is as run down as the cow shed

well we're just tired of this bullshit

and the final straw was when we saw that
he's been stealing our kids

the hens were hatching plans
and the cow were mulling them over
the pigs were at first skeptical
but then they came in closer

it started in barn
and continued in the yard
they trapped Bob in his car
but then came his friend Rover

after that Bob wasn't just mad
put the pigs in a pot
and the chickens in a vat
Daisy's fate was not much better than this
Bob put her in a cage
and hooked machines up to her tits

So that days revolution didn't quite stick
But at least the Rooster wound up as MacNuggets
that made everyone sick

One of the guys in the band wanted to do a little something special for his newborn sons name-giving. So we re-interpreted a traditional danish children's song, playing bucket-bass, ukulele and toy xylophone. With harmonies provided by my lovely girlfriend Sofia.
This is recorded in the practice room before Frej's name-giving.

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A song I've recorded before, but I just thought this simple version works quite well. Recorded in our tiny bathroom, sung to a lonely pine tree in tub.
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For the audio nerds. Signal chain- DPA-4060s to Zoom H4 set to 96khz 24bit wav. Cut in Reaper rendered with 3 Rough Rider compressors and an EQ that sliced out all freq below 100hz and ablve 7000hz. Mastered in WaveLab 6 Essential, using Crystal Resampler set at 192khz. Ah!... gratuitous processing, how amazingly unimportant

Last night Jonas forgot his bass at home and had to borrow one from our sister band Ampel (sister band=bands you share a rehearsal room with). After playing for about an hour we grew restless and tired and bored... not really a good sign when rehearsing ones own music. But anyway, Rasmus started messing about with a cheap toy microphone also found in Ampels equipment box.... and then suggested that we record a song using only other peoples equipment.
This is what we improvised with Ableton Live. SongWithAmpelsEquipment

If you want to hear the equipment played in a live setting you can go here on the 6th of sept. Though it will be the actual owners of the equipment that are playing on that occasion. If you do go, don't tell Ampel we borrowed their equipment.... we have yet to ask them =)

Letters to the abecedarian

could never be delivered by a post man

here's some nonsense to steal

oh well, epicak and are again

it's funny how it seems to me so real
and all this while I'd rather be... dededohdede

hide in your cellar till everybody goes

up to the moon then back, through tornadoes

so I love the weather, in anyway it shows

so call on the comets an volcanoes

call on the comets

Why are these sweets so bitter?
What are the dreams of the sleepless?
How do the birds know where to go?
When is it time to see where time goes?
I don't know but lately, these questions have been bothering me
I'm not sure succinctly the answers to any of these

puzzles.... puzzles

where does the earth go round when the sun goes down?
if A is to B then who is there to C the tree fall?
could all the answers ever out number their questions?
I don't but basically zeroes are 1's endlessly
I'm not sure but basically only prisons can set you completely free

Space is ticking and times running out
Space is tilting and times running out
times running out, times running out

Why are these sweets so bitter?

So I spent a little time

cultivating my sense of denial

able to unwind dislocating my

furthermores and farewells

So While Dislocating Time