Christoffer´s children have finished this semester and their mother Ylva celebrated it with strawberry cake! And she came and gave me a piece too…!!!! The first strawberry cake for the summer :o) Jessica Nettelbladt who makes a documentary about female musicians of which I am one, was here that day and together with her, the cake tasted even better!
Two days later, we met up at a cottage 1 hour away from the studio towards the sea, and I left Christoffer alone in the studio. He needed to rest so the timing was good. Here in this cottage, we made the last meeting all five of us who are in the documentary. We had a great time, talking about our dreams and what had happened since last time, and we had salmon from the grill! Yummie :o) The other girls slept over in the cottage, while I went back to the studio to keep working. Here you can see how cosy it was:
It is Nina Persson, Lotta Wenglén, Cecilia Nordlund and arranger Gudrun Hauksdottir plus me in the movie. It will be edited this fall and then I hope you will soon be able to see the result! The cottage belongs to Magnus Svenningsson, bassplayer of the Cardigans, and his girlfriend and it was very beautiful!
And here you see the filmteam:
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The documentary has been a lot of fun to be part in, and I am sure I have made new friends for life! Both with Jessica, and the other musicians!!
The other day, Hanna came to do some backing vocals. Christoffer had discovered her through a recording he did with a 9th grade class the other month, and was excited by her voice! The results became very satisfying! This week she will be back for some more songs. She is only 15 years old. It is a new thing for me to have other vocals than my own on a recording, and it felt good. Someone with a different voice who is new to the pop genre makes it more rough, jippie! When Christoffer and I do aaah-harmonies it is just too polished…… At the end of the session, she gave Christoffer some help with the clarinet!
On two sundays, Martinique has come over! Then I buy strawberries and other good things to celebrate it! He loves being around cats and he recorded some bells with the kitten on his lap, but he also played football with the rabbit in the garden.
My first soloalbum “Dynamo” contained only one guitar, it was a slide guitar on “Air-Hostess” But the other day Christoffer couldn´t help himself any longer. It started with one guitar, but ended with….
!!!!! Invasion!!!
You see there are two songs that really beg for it, and that has to be obeyed :o) And on these two songs, there will be almost nothing else than guitars and vocals. It´s all or nothing! One of them is a ballad for our planet and the other one is dreamy and sleepy , it feels like a lullaby. I am looking forward to the live performances when the album is released, where Martinique and drummer Rasmus (who is originally a guitarist) can sit in front with me like as if it was by the fireplace…. mmmmmm…!!!
Here you see me enjoying the results in the headphones… Next week a children´s choir from Fränninge, the village next door, will join in on one of these two songs! That will be exciting because they have so beautiful voices :o)
Today I want to show you how I live when the record is being made!
It is a house 20 minutes walk from the studio, or 10 minutes by bike. It is called “Gubbens Hus”, which means “The house of the old man”. Because of who lived there before Christoffer and his wife Ylva bought it, as an accomodation for all the musicians and artists who record in the Aerosol Grey Machine. Looki looki!
This recording means it is the first time that I´ve been living here all by myself and it was a bit scary at first, going home at midnight with the moonlight as my only guidance (the dynamo of the bike was broken:o) I was looking over my shoulder to make sure no warewolves were running after me. And I made it without any attacks! As soon as I got to the house I saw a movie and made some popcorn and I started to feel at home.
My favourite bedroom is this green one, it is away from the road so you don´t hear the cars. It is surprising how many cars that drive by there in the middle of nowhere all through the night, and really fast, too. I wonder where they´re going? When I wake up after 9 or 10 hours of sleep ( singing and listening craves a lot of sleep at least for me that is ), I open the window, and this is the view! Small birds are singing, cows are eating- isn´t it great!
Lonely breakfast means porridge and fruit- I think it tastes good. But the time this picture was taken, I had come all the way to the studio by bus, and the last 5 kilometres by bike, so I couldn´t bring any apple-mash which is my favourite on the porridge. I only brought the most necessary things. And finally you see me going on the gravelled road, for another exciting day in the studio!
It is Nina Persson, Lotta Wenglén, Cecilia Nordlund and arranger Gudrun Hauksdottir plus me in the movie. It will be edited this fall and then I hope you will soon be able to see the result! The cottage belongs to Magnus Svenningsson, bassplayer of the Cardigans, and his girlfriend and it was very beautiful!
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