The Dearest, Dear Martin

The official release party for Dear Martin´s album The Dearest is taking place at Klubb Breathless at Bonden Bar, Bondegatan 1, Stockholm, March the 26th. Doors open at 20.00 and I will be on stage at around 22.00. Looking forward to see you!

On Saturday the 27th, Dear Martin is performing at Ge-TING-dagen, a charity event supporting Médecins sans frontières (Läkare utan Gränser).
The gig is taking place at Peppes Bodega. Other acts included are Jenny Silver, Patrick El-Hag and more…

The Spainish magazine Sangay writes about Dear Martin and describes the music as addictive and “Un Lujo”… A luxury.

Dear Martin is chosen Artist of the month at Swedish national radio show P3Lab. This means you will be able to hear more of Dear Martin during March.

Listen to the interview by Pelle Moeld at Swedish national radio P3Lab tomorrow, Wednesday the 17th at around 7.30 pm. Pelle is also playing his three favourite tracks from the album The Dearest.

American in Me, the first single taken from the album The Dearest, is out now. The video is directed  by Emanuel Danneman at Opacity STHLM.

Since Dear Martin is all about loving myself my ego forces me to quote the blog EQ referring to me in these words ”…brilliant electro-pop coming out of a good-looking Swede…”
Go and read more at the EQ Pop and Electronic music blog here.

Today the Swedish national radio picked up the pacific! remix of American in Me. How wisely chosen! Listen to P3 LAB.

To tell the truth, I did not plan this. Being on Spotify, that is. I thought Spotify would be a good idea later on after the album is officially released and until then I would be in some sort of control of my music. Turns out, I am not in control. At all. My music is on iTunes, CDon and tens of other web shops, just like I planned it, but to my knowledge I never signed the dotted line saying “yes thanks” to Spotify.
Anyway, now that it is out there I consider this a sign for the best. Please, enjoy!

Rehearsal studios are difficult. They are either too cramped or too dirty, or both. Too many bands sharing the same studio with different agendas and taste in music. Beer cans and snus are spread around the room.

So I found this little spot just outside the city. It is not the most sound proof of studios, hell no. When the neighbouring bands starts to play I either have to turn up the volume to maximum or, as happens in most cases, I leave. But during daytime and early mornings during the weekends it is bliss having the place. For the last year or so I have shared it with Jonas and really, it was ok. Jonas does not drink beer in the studio and he plays the guitar. Brilliant. We get on just fine. Jonas is actually the only co-writing person on the album: we wrote Sundrenched Seasons together in this place. First he played this sad little tune in minor and I sang something ever more sad to it.  We had that tune for ages and it didn’t get anywhere. Then one day we decided to just write a chorus to it. Jonas played something and I said change this chord and that chord. Then he went home and I wrote the melody and the lyrics. I didn’t have to look very long for it. It just came. Anyway, today Jonas decided to move out and once again, I am alone. All alone.