Music video premiere!

Do you remember The Neverending Story? We hope you do – otherwise this video makes no sense πŸ™‚ it’s created by everyone in the family and even the cats play a starring role. Tango plays Falkor and Blomme plays the Gmork. On the role list is also Elise who plays Teeny Weeny on the race snail. We all took turns to act as puppeteers, directors, camera operators, set designers and special effects executives. The crotched Atreyu was found on etsy made by LemonLoops (how crazy cool are all of her designs? Take a moment to check them out and prepare to fall in love with all of them). No animals were harmed except the white toy pony playing Artax that got a bit dirty. Enjoy!

A few behind-the-scenes images from the preparation, shooting and editing process…

Re-creating the Nothing stormy weather.
Sun and mountains in the making.
Clouds for when Falkor is flying with Atreyu.
The swamp of sadness.
Editor in chief.

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?”.Β The white lace jacket is from the second-hand store on NΓΈrrebrogade 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.

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 & LineΒ / click to play

Salon musicΒ was a popularΒ music genreΒ inΒ EuropeΒ during the 19th century. It was usually written for soloΒ pianoΒ in theΒ romanticΒ 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)

Behind the scenes: shooting the video for ‘Arena’

On the 4th of July two things close to my heart materialized: the Higgs bosonΒ 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 dancersΒ Elematronics (Maria Miz Gold Guldmann & Julie Joules Kunz) did a spot on choreographyΒ 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 EgestrΓΈm’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.

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