Weekend tour

Hurra, tomorrow we go on a little weekend tour, first up is Aalborg Studenterhus tomorrow friday. Before we play a french band called SayCet will play, and I think it´s gonna be goooood.
Saturday we go to the capital of the west Herning, and play at Fermaten.
We will play new songs and have a lot of fun...so hope to see you there!

Are you doing anything tonight?

Tonight we will play at the new and rebuild Voxhall in our hometown Aarhus. It´s a closed concert for the employees and some important music people from Aarhus. It will be a good setting to play two new song for the first time, and try them on a probably not very focused audience, before we will go on a little danish your this weekend, and play them for you! But but but I have a little and very fast competition, because we have 2 freespots on tonights guestlist, and I want you to come! So the first two that write me an email with their names before 6, to data@marybell.dk, will get the spots...so go go go!

Where they shoot the cows

Our rehearsal room is located at the habour in Aarhus, right next to a slaughter house, inside some old freeze boxes that use to store meat....It smells very bad of death, and you can actually hear the cows scream when they face their destiny - I know I doesn´t sound very cosy, but we share the room with our friend Nicolai who renovated it and changed it into the most wonderful freeze box in the world! It´s a bit like Bennys Badekar, an old danish children show (or Alice in Wonderland), where you disappear into a whole other world, where the grey and sad everyday outside is forgotten for a while - and of cause it is soundproof so we can´t hear the cows scream too much....

New songs live

We are on our way to the reheaseal room to try out 2 of the new songs for the upcoming shows in Denmark, and later in Italy in the beginning of december. It´s going to be very interesting to try and find a way to play the new, more orchestral parts. This little clip is a beat from one of the songs, tonight going to be transformed by Q and Jakob to a live version:




Hopefully we can transform it in to the same song but another version - for us this is the best way, and it keeps it all alive, because there is never a real and true version.

Vocals all over the place

A long day with vocal recordings are over, and I am tired. I recorded vocals for five new songs, some of them I told you about and it is slowly taking form as a little bunch of electric fighters. Just to show you a little of the recording I made this little video, where I crossfade between me singing and the recording as it ended up today, for the new song"The Difference Between Illusion and Perception".



I sing into a Shure SM7b, as a tribute to Michael Jackson who used to record with this one as well - not to put anything on the same footing as him singing of cause!

The lyrics for these new songs are written by Morten Søndergaard - the famous danish poet - as we call him here in the house to tease him a bit. He is a really good friend, and his words are... I can't really start to say how much I love them and how musical they are to sing. So for now I will just say Thank you!

My humble admiration

Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط (born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. She made this video installation called Turbulent and is so breathtaking. I would love to learn a little bit about the vocal technic the singers masters so beautifully.

The female singer is Sussan Deyhim and she is a composer, vocalist and performance artist who has been at the forefront of experimental music internationally for over two decades. Originally this is a video installation, in a totally dark room with the man on one wall and the woman on the opposite.
If you are in Copenhagen you can go see it at: Galleri Faurschou.
Please give me a hint if you know somewhere I can study persian singing - better today than tomorrow.