Contra/Production

I don't know if anyone read this... And yeah... It doesn't really matter. I starting out writing music when I was 11 (Though it was in a very different manner at that point) and since then I have been struggling to shape an "inner idea" of what the hell I was doing with it. Enter my new years resolution of trying to keep myself doing this out of an idea that I actually have a talent, and in the end I had to retcon my own idea of what I am doing with my music. I think I mainly make music for myself, with a hope that somebody somewhere likes it too. I don't necessarily listen to my own music as much as people would think, but this project of doing that much music as I am going to do this year, really forces you to sit back and try and listen to your own "ramblings" with different ears. I believe my roomie is very sick about it. So yeah! I made another one. Nr. 2 in the "12 EP's Project". It is called "Purple Enigma" and it is funny... Cause I don't think I like it better than the January EP "Darker Values". I think I like it lesser! But that is one of the pitfalls with this project. Trying to take a step away from your own "art", get your head of of your own ass and looking down the black hole and say: "This is okay"! I had a big fight with the song "Helium Balloon". I know I am not the greatest singer... Far from it. My voice is not that good, but I can't come around getting other people to sing the songs I write for my "own project". It is a big "diva-problem", I guess, cause I think my "lesser voice" scares away a lot of potential listeners. It is a shame... But until my ego succumbs completely, it is necessary that I sing it. Apparently. When that is said, I never got around nailing the voice on "Helium Balloon"... Which is a shame 'cause I really like it! In some way it is related to one of my better songs in recent years: "Collapse" from 2013's "Structures and Movements". But after the gazillionth attempt of recording the vocals I just had to let it go and say: "Fuck it!" So yeah! "Purple Enigma" is not the best I ever did. But that is not the point. I ended up trying to be "perfect" a long time ago. I had a big ego-trip going on around the time I was the singer and songwriter in my old band Paper Sessions. A fact that really strained the creative relationship and brought a lot of tension in the band, which was sad as hell. I put that to rest a long time ago, and a lot of what I have done musically since that time have been a way of trying to step out of my own narcissistic shadow! It can be hard! So tomorrow you will be able to listen to what I have done! I quite like it! I don't love it as I got to do with "Darker Values" (That one really grew on me). Sometimes you are superior and other times you are just "meh"... That is the complete struggle of trying to push away from your own comfort-zone! So in that fashion... Here is "Helium Balloon". Hope someone listens

I woke up two hours ago Tried to open the window To let out the heavy, violent smell Of forgotten years You tend to forget the morning light When you are only awake at night In a pocket universe Of spit and sweat and beer

I've got ice cubes in my fridge I've got a shelter under the bridge Where I sit and wait for the day to go by And for a girl to come I've got a paranoid glow I've got icicles in my soul And I've got gray, poisoned smoke Running through my lungs :|| I have reached the point where love won't hurt I have tried to electrocute my heart But it didn't work ||:

I am a cliff of solitude I am a tree with no fruit I am a demigod with a helmet And no powers to show I am a mad, stalking freak I am a mindless, filthy creep I am a savior of worlds That have turned to stone So blame it on the guidelines Blame it on the way I live I have been working at the pipelines I have nothing left to give

:|| I have turned stone cold ||:

Listen to the new EP "Darker Values" - Written, performed and produced by yours truly. Hopefully someone will like it!

12 New EP's

I don't have a lot of followers here yet, and no one really listens to what I am doing. Therefore I am trying something new. This year I have chosen to do something new and something different. I have been plagued with a tendency to get very lazy with my creativity, and this Christmas I had a smaller breakdown of sorts, that forced me to re-think my life as it was. So I chose to focus on doing something ”I like”, instead of doing something ”I should”. And music is half of my life. A big part of it anyway. Most people who knows me, know that I like writing songs. I see myself as a good songwriter. Not great or extremely talented, but fairly good! I hope! My problem is that I have become lesser focused, more sporadic and downright lazy in my older days. When I watch the list I have of ”officially finished songs” (Through the danish songwriter foundation Koda) I can tell that I have been very lazy in the last 3 years or so. And I know what people say: Quality over quantity.

But I had become so desperate that I would rather write 55 shit songs a week, than one good song every third month. I am a creative human being and I need to do what I do in order to keep myself sane. There is a reason why I write. But I couldn't get around.

Every time I picked up a guitar, it wouldn't work. Every time I tried to make beats it sounded shit. So I revisited my roots and found out that I needed to put up some creative goals in 2014. And there it was! One of my songwriter-friends ideas: Make a collection of songs, a album, an EP or something every month. FORCE yourself to work, so you have to reach a goal! Even though the songs may end up being worse that half of your back catalogue. Or half of your last ”project”. And so on and so forth. Write some songs, record them, release them, take a break in two days and BANG! You have to start again.

And it worked! I am writing again. The first child of the new project ”12 New Ep's” is named ”Darker Values”, and may be a bit of cheating, cause three of the songs are from last year. People who know me, may have heard ”Gospel of a Nonbeliever” before and ”Falling from the Sky” is finally released. A song famously known by my music-friends 'cause of the fact that I have been trying to record the definitive version for, almost, a year. From Berlin techno, to blues, to disco and so on. The final version is a mixture of a lot of different stuff. ”Crossword Girl” is extremely poppy and ”Atom Storm” is new. It's a culmination of different bits and ideas put together and lyrics I wrote to push myself out of the Christmas-vacuum I entered this December. Good times! The title track is me going back to my roots. I tried to record another song for this EP, but couldn't make it work. I got so irritated I deleted everything I had done, found a free sound recorder on the Internet, took my acoustic guitar and recorded that song on the spot. The chords. The lyrics and the melody came that second. No writing required!!! Go figure! I did overdub the backing vocals, glockenspiel and melodica later in the process.

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