No voting today for TRACKS since the show is cancelled due to illness…Kaj Kindwall cought a cold. So hold on until next week, ok…

Currently in lovely London, just 2 weeks before the show at EQ may 20. That means i haven’t been able to listen to trackslistan today but just heard that you’re now able to Vote for Dear Martin again. Please take the time to help Me make it to the top. All you need is a minute and a swedish birthnumber…

http://sverigesradio.se/cgi-bin/p3/tracks/index.asp?taskid=1

This week, you´ll be able to vote for Dear Martins single ”American in Me” to make it in to Swedish Radios classic chart show ”Trackslistan”. Back in the days before Spotify & iTunes – Heck, even before there was Napster – Trackslistan was THE source were you first heard of new music and filled up your C90´s.

Help Dear Martin join Robyn, Familjen, Lady GaGa, Kent and other great artists on the chart by placing your vote on the following URL. You´ll be able to vote until monday, may 3rd, 2 pm.

http://sverigesradio.se/cgi-bin/p3/tracks/index.asp?taskid=1

On Thursday May the 2oth, Dear Martin is making his London debut performing at the EQ Live as supporting act to Australian electro-pop duo Parralox.

Dear Martin

EQ Live @ Bar Music Hall
134 Curtain Road, Shoreditch London

This is a remix of the track We Are taken from the album The Dearest. The track was the first song to be written for the album and the first song to be performed live, at a club in San Francisco about a year before it was properly released on the album.

Tore Jarlo is a highly talented musician and dj. He is residing in a studio in central Stockholm where he is writing and remixing music, both his own and others…look him up at

http://www.myspace.com/torejarlo

This week, no 14, Dear Martin is reaching A-list rotation on City Radio 102,7…and that´s Gävle for you…

Thanks to all of you who came and joined the Release Party. And thank you Klubb Breathless/Bonden Bar for having me. More live gigs will be announced shortly.

Dear Martin live

With just one day to go before the Release Party of the album The Dearest, Dear Martin is interviewed in Radar Magazine by Fredrik Asplund.
http://www.radarzine.com/musik/2010/03/25/slappfest-dear-martin-pa-breathless/

Even though, as some of you might have noticed, you have been able to buy and listen to the album The Dearest for some time now, this is the official release date. You can order the album in any record store, if there are any left out there. Just ask for The Dearest, Dear Martin, catalogue number DM012009, label Martin Edvardsson, and you should get a copy in due time. Or buy it on CD.On, iTunes, Bengans, Amazon, Spotify…

The work with The Dearest really started when I brought those tracks to Björn Synneby (see earlier entry). Before that I had been writing songs for several months, indulging myself in not to hurry. I had released the EP This is wrong and have had some, for my standards, success: gigs, airtime on the radio and articles in press. So I figured I could take my time. Big mistake. Never relax if you want to be a pop artist in this life. I decided to stir things up by devoting Christmas just writing music. I have done that before: closing the door on December the 23^rd and then just drink coffee, write, sing, do some laundry, go back to the keyboard, sing, eat and then write some more. I love it. No one is disturbing me and since I don’t believe neither in Santa nor Jesus, it is not a sacrifice. Only this year I somehow had counted so deeply on me being able to switch on my creativity that it just snapped. It did not happen. Only one song came out from that Christmas session. Ideally, it is called. It´s a great song, yes, but just the one.

I booked myself in at a studio with Jonas Ekström. Normally he resides in his own studio, Mastertone, but during this period he worked from the Blacksheep Studio – a very rock´n roll-kind of place for people aged 14 or 41. Nothing in between or so it seemed at least. It is an old abandoned school and has an eerie feeling to it. Ever heard about the band Dundertåget? Death Breath? Well, I hadn’t either but people in general have, it turns out… I guess I am not that into either rock nor roll but those are the type of bands that hold court at Blacksheep. Anyway, there I was in that rock´n roll spirit of Blacksheep, singing harmonies with myself.

We worked slowly on a two-days-a-week schedule. That is not the most efficient way to get going but it had the benefit of letting me think and loosen up. Before I knew it I was in a creative mood and started writing new songs. More than once I began the day presenting a new song to Jonas. Not all of them  became tracks on the album, I have been very selective, but a few did. The Calling for instance, a song I am more than usually pleased with. I cannot really put my finger on why but it has something to do with harmonies and simplicity.

Finally, in June, we had the last day at the Blacksheep Studio. Summer came and I went away for the Riviera and the islands of Greece since I do have a social life beside the music. In August we made the final master.
After choosing carefully among the recorded tracks we had the album.

- Nine is the new twelve, as someone in the business said.
I got hold of that and settled for it. Nine songs that sums up being the Dearest.

RELEASE PARTY 100326
at Klubb Breathless, Bonden Bar, Bondegatan 1, Stockholm.
Door opens at 20.00, Dear Martin on stage 22.00

Welcome!