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

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

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