Introducing: The Pad Man

Today I would like to introduce Jakob Schweppenhäuser, our electronic drummer, who you might remember transformed into a hotheaded skeleton on stage.



His triggers all kinds of samples on his pad, also including bass samples and all kinds of different sounds. It makes his role very, very important and replaces all backtrack stuff we used before basicly Jakob sets us free! I learned about him through his other "band" Schwth, an electronic act featuring the dansih poet Morten Søndergaard (who I will get back to later). Please go tjeck out their webpage, finally a site that challanges the "normal" way of presenting your music on the internet.
Furthermore he also started making some programmed drums for me for the new songs, and I´m working on a track right now, where the drums takes the lead, and decides where I should go....take a listen to a little snippet from the drumtrack he gave me:

TODAY WE CELEBRATE

Today is a celebration day for us, as we release our album The More in most of Europe and Asia. We look forward to come and visit you with our music. Thank you to everybody who made this happen, just to name a few:

Maria Timm, Jim @ Merger , Kasper Find @ Ponyrec, Playground, Anders Boll, Julie Runa, Mette @ Ungt Blod, Dennis, Kristina, Sigrunn, Jakob Schweppenhäuser, Morten Søndergaard, Mr. Q, Mads Tønder

Rapman & Raptrax

We have this wonderful old Casio synth called Rapman that you can hear on different Marybell songs already. One example is the high pitched synth melody on Good Old Germany.



The synth is of cause from the eighties had some accessories coming with it, very fancy little package, which include a nice pair of sunglasses, and a casette with raptrax, played on the synth! Awesome!
On this casette you find some very oldfashioned raptrax feat. amongst others the rapper Heavy D and his girlz. The track I like the most is called Girls They Love Me, and I used it for inspiration for one of the new Marybell songs, but for now you will need to settle with the original:

Heavy D & the Boyz - Girls they love me - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

Morning has broken

Later I will tell you much more about the two girls who made the artwork around Marybell from the begining - my little sister Mette who also came up with the name Marybell Katastrophy and my best friend Kristina. But till then I will just show you this video made by Kristina as visuals for a concert (you can check out the rest of the visuals on her youtube

Orchestral Oriental Electronic Musik

The new songs take their form in highspeed, and I can now with certainty say that it has an orchestral-oriental-electronic-feel to it - as if that makes sense to you - so today I worked on a song with the short and catchy working title The Difference Between Illusion And Perception, the instrumental section consists of both synths, heartbeats and two Indian instruments:

The Bansuri Flute:


And the Shehnai Oboe (as you hear in the begining of this wonderful clip from a Bollywood movie (I love the way the compression sometimes tweaks their voices))

Dexter II

Something strange happened today while I was working on a new song. I just made some lyrics for it, and the chorus started with the words "Dexter, you're my brother". Then suddenly it hit me, that we played a song called Dexter in Tiger Tunes. So I just listened to it again to remember, and it had the exact same feel as my new song...but maybe it´s just me who wants to hear it...? what do you think?

A clip from the Tiger Tunes song




A clip from the new Marybell song

concert and a chair dance competition

Uhlala we had a good night friday, playing in our lovely hometown, at musikcafeen. We were so surprised and happy to see all of you showing up! So happy that we ended up partying all night, including a wild and crazy chair dance competition, won by Emil and Kenneth our soundguy. Ole Lauritsen, a local photographer took some very nice pictures and I got his ok to post some here, later I will put up a couple of live recordings from this magical evening.

The whale shirt atmosphere

I think I will make a song inspired by this Tshirt. I had it since I was a kid and it´s from Iceland - Maybe the song will be called "The Whale Shirt" or something like that...

Pruebas palpables

Mr. Ramogens send me this video from saturday, and it is now obvious also to the ear that we had to do with some pretty heavy rock´n´smoul:

First German reviews and a concert announcement

Our album The More is soon (25th september) being released in most of Europe and Asia via Merger and Ponyrec. So the first reviews start to pop up. I almost consider Good Old Germany (the country) as my second homeland, but sometimes it is a little hard understanding every word, but anyway if we make earth spin around it´s axis we most do something right...?!

Tonspion (free download of the song Whiteboard)

Oh Fancy

Schallgrenzen

We will try to make it spin live this friday in our hometown Aarhus - the last i Aarhus before we go abroard. It will take place in Musikcafeen in Mejlgade, and we found a fresh and new opening act called The Boy The Man The Pale, who we look forward to see play! After our show Q and Jakob (our electronic drummer) will DJ and keep the party going like this:

"I don´t see any fucking horses"

This saturday I had the pleasure of joining Beta Satan on stage at the Crunchy Frog 15th anniversary. It took place in a cellar underneath Ørestad metrostation - It was pretty late but pretty awsome. The band consists of some of my best friends, furthermore their drummer Mr. Q also plays drums with Marybell these days - as he is the best drummer in the world...the universe...denmark at least!



I was a substitute for Kaare (the normal frontman) who is having a baby these days (maybe right now), Asbjørn Grimm was the male substitute. Here are a few shots of the of the humble substitutes from Jints allways present lense.




We also celebrated the birthday by contributing with a song for their anniversary combilation called Saluting The Crunchy Frog-A-Logue. We (meaning Q, Emil and I) made a mashup between two songs namely the strange and wonderful song "Midnite and the Medicine" by Tothe International and the harsh and strong song "Amorines" by 18th Dye - of cause we named it "Midnite and the Amorines"and it sounds like this:




18th Dye also played a small set at the party saturday, and thanks god they also played "Amorines". I love their sound and their ability to cut off everything that isn´t important and rely 100% on the good song!

Here We Go

I plan to use this new blog to tell you a little bit about the process of making new Marybell songs. Maybe also a bit about the rest... say touring or rehearsing or dancing or...
We just returned from a great trip to Norway, we played on the boat to Oslo, and the next day at the great venue Mono! We will certainly come back there and here soon.