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

All this sunshine and smiles in Copenhagen is putting me in a bad mood... and when I'm in a bad mood, I do a hateful thing. I play musicals!

I'm Sommer Lovin' in the Rain

You'll have to figure out for yourself where they're from...
(Post script - it's not that I dislike sunshine or smiles, it's that I hate it when I can't join in because I have to study for an exam)

Something that I added to a piece of music by Rasmus

if a is to b as c is to a

Blue skies are crawling along
and I can see them all from my window
it's all good, yeah it's all good

horizons are opening up
this you might not see
coz it's so damn slow

lady you've got me all wrong
I might want to carry you on
a journey through the stars
behind the heavens

behind the evergreens
there is a message screen
it will tell you what to with your dark days
bouncing along on the wisdom of trees
don't you worry they always know best

blueSkies

Solace In the Lines

This is one that me and the band cooked up a few months ago in the practice room, which I then proceeded to remix... and not too well. I mean the basic ideas are pretty good, but the arrangement loses coherency midway through.
Sucks when you have no one to blame but yourself

Hey Haukur and Rasmus... what do you guys think of the vocal bits I added to A sunny day at the park (renamed from the diktafon improvisation we did at the park)

let's take some time to lament
the death of poetry, as I see poetry
coz poetry takes time and time is money
it's mine, this money is mine
it's mine

let's drink some wine and forget
the silence that may yet
fill with violence
that we need

so you feel elated, maybe that's coz it's real
so you seen it stated in magazines and newspapers around the world

so you seem elated
so you feel elated

Threnody to melodies