Shiny new single and music video

Hurrah! Today we welcome ARENA the single and video to the world, starring feather eyelashes, white gloves, sleek haircuts and funky moves:

Did you know that the large crystal around my neck is from the annual street fair at 103rd street on the upper west side? I was a whopping 20 dollars. The award for best comment on it goes to Christopher Henry for: “Does that one take you back to the mother ship?”. The white lace jacket is from the second-hand store on Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen that doesn’t only sell clothes and furniture from dead people’s houses, but also sugar, flour, jam and other goodies that outperformed the expiration date of their owners.

I had an amazing time writing, recording, producing and shooting ARENA. A very special thanks to Michael Miltersen / Sepia Productions, Tommy Rasmussen / Smussen Design and of course Kristian Baek.

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A little salon music by opa Boy

My grandfather Boy played a little salon music for me when we were working today, inspired by a new piece I’m writing. He’s helping me with the score for it. He is 78 years old and pretty awesome.

Boy & Line / click to play

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Salon music was a popular music genre in Europe during the 19th century. It was usually written for solo piano in the romantic style, and often performed by the composer at events known as “Salons”. Salon compositions are usually fairly short and often focus on virtuoso pianistic display or emotional expression of a sentimental character. Common sub-genres of salon music are the operatic paraphrase or fantasia, in which multiple themes from a popular opera are the basis of the composition, and the musical character-piece, which portrays in music a particular situation or narrative.

(Wikipedia)

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Behind the scenes: shooting the video for ‘Arena’

On the 4th of July two things close to my heart materialized: the Higgs boson and the video for the upcoming single ‘Arena’. Kristian, who originally helped me compose ‘Arena’ and is singing the backing vocals, was home from New York for the Roskilde Festival, so we hijacked him for the video. Snap. The dancers Elematronics (Maria Miz Gold Guldmann & Julie Joules Kunz) did a spot on choreography and dance for the video, we were blown away. These girls are so young and have a great future ahead of them. Talk about talent.

The video was shot at photographer Bo Egestrøm’s studio in Copenhagen. We felt like kids in a candy store. Bo had everything we needed and he is just awesome.

Tommy did an amazing job directing and shooting, staying cool, calm and creative all day. Elematronics aka Maria & Julie, runner Gustav.

The tools of the brilliant and lovely makeup artist Dana Mario.

Don’t smile to the camera.

Kristian and Firebird.

Black or blue? Blue or black? Testing colours on Gustav before they end up on me.

Cake break.

Elematronics doing their magic. These girls rock.

It’s a wrap because the makeup is a mess.

SPECIAL TREAT:


Me and one of my favorite instruments, the jew’s harp. Just a little show-off for a dear friend of mine.

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My new Danish friend in New York, Miss Hicks

Strings for the new album is being composed these days, and since I just play by ear in GarageBand typing along on my keyboard (J, K, L… S, A, G) as the music plays in my head, I need someone pro to help me write out what I’m doing. Luckily I met the awesome Yvonne Hicks (a US resident since the 1980’s), a cellist and conductor who has been sweet as a pie, helping me with contacts to arrangers so that I now have the piece in notes for a string ensemble to play to.

Turns out part of Yvonne’s bio was on the other side of the paper she scrambled her phone number on. Not a bad idea for a understated business card.

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A sunny Super Bowl Sunday

The L-Team of Lance, Line and Lily (that’s the name of my bike) spend the Super Bowl Sunday before the game fooling around in Chinatown. Highlights included fried dumplings at “Fried Dumplings” (logic at its finest), cherries and Van Halen street posters. As always Lance was behind the camera, great work my friend.

chinatown new york "a girl in a rat suit"

chinatown new york


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November inspiration

Delicate white flowers turning into round black berries. Their heaviness forcing the branches to bend before they surrender and fall to the ground. Merging with soil. With Earth. Holding the vibration of an entire tree. The energy to build a forest. My favourite fall.

Colour of the season.

Very old Bible found in a barn in Jutland on a starlit night.

Can’t argue with that.

Kiss the boots of shiny, shiny leather.

My tooth print age 3 or so.

“Boy at newsstand” by André Kertesz. New York 1950.

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A new track is taking shape… a status from the studio

Back in the studio. Feels so good. We can cancel Christmas, it’s ok. Recording makes me happy and jolly like an idiot. Right now I’m working on the track ‘Arena’ with Michael Adler Miltersen from Sepia Productions. It’s one of the first songs I wrote – the original GarageBand files are from 2007. They sound SUPER crappy, but the song has a very special vibe and it’s still one of my favorites, so I decided to let ‘Arena’ be the first song to finish for my upcoming album set to be released in 2012.

Yes, I love making music.

Thinking.

Go ahead and sing.

For the geeks.

For the über geeks.

Drink, drink, drink your spinach juice. Good for you.

Sticky fingers.

The observant eye will notice that the big speaker is upside down. Reason? To have the treble hit the ear directly when sitting in the chair mixing. Pretty clever.

Michael is going to Kiev to see IAMX this week – painted here by the talented Gregers Albrechtsen – so we will have a short break. When he is back from the vodka, meat and music mayhem, Kristian Baek from Honolulu Blitz will visit us in the studio to do the backing vocals.

“The skinny monkey/shivers and shakes/the chain around its neck/rattles a requiem…”

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