Video of the day February the 21st 2014

Pipeorgan for Andreas & Jag

Video of the day 3rd of February 2014

Video of the day is of the amazing Einar Baldursson recording some 12 stringed Rickenbacker for a relatively new Andreas & jag song (its probably 2 or 3 years old)

The funny thing about this video is that when Andreas saw this video amongst a bunch of Akaba overdub videos he wrote me and said I wish Einar would record on our track not realizing that was exactly what was going. And that, my friends is the magic of Einar Baldursson. 

He will change how you hear your music and 

when he leaves the studio he has made it so much better. 

Occasionally grumpy and on the harder end of softspoken but always a remarkable player.

Im a fan.

Einar recording Rickenbacker for Andreas & jag

Video of the day 21st of January 2014

One of the best things about my work is how things fit together and sort of hands over possibilties. 

Bear with me its not too bad...

#1 I had a band with my good friend Andreas Morland. We were called Andreas & Jag. We released three CD-R albums and toured internationally with a very weird set-up.

He had a girlfriend. Her name was Anna-Karin Von Malmborg.

#2 Years after they broke up I met Anna Karin at a bar in Stockholm and decided we should do something together. So in 6 afternoons we recorded an album.
We wrote and recorded two songs everyday. 

The band was called AK-momo.

#3 In Philadelphia a girl called Nadia Botello got hold of a copy of the album.
She liked it a lot and got in touch. 

She wanted to make an album about secrets with me.
She flew over and in about two weeks we recorded an album under the name Saint she.

#4 She was friends with a label who knew people in Stockholm. Thru these contacts she got a place to stay. She was staying at a swedish singer songwriter called Staphan O Bell. 

He was terribly talented so we started working together.

#5 On the second of February Staphan will be having his releaseparty at Roth Händle V. 

The album is remarkable.  

Here is a video from the 17th of January 2011 recorded at Gösta Berlings sagas rehearsal room. He is playing my Danelectro Convertible from 1965. One of my favorite guitars.

Staphan O Bell playing the Danelectro Convertible

Video of the day 18th of January 2014

Musicians are generally really nice people. 

Openminded, curious and often interested in a lot of things.

But something happens when it comes to buying equipment. Its like the brain sort of shuts off and something known as G.A.S happens. It is short for gear acquisition syndrome.

Musicians want to buy things. We also have this weird feeling that if we only get this one pedal or synth everything will work out. Everything will change for the better. But we need somekind of fuel for our G.A.S and one simple way of getting the buyers juice 

flowing is to have some cool references.

Video of the day is of me on the 17th of January 2010. 

Im treating my drums thru an Octave Divider. 

A pedal that adds lower octaves to the signal that comes in. 

The MU-tron Octave divider isnt a spectacular pedal. It looks a lot cooler than it sounds. It is confused and has a tendency of lying or embellishing the truth. Often it makes stuff sound like slightly fuzzy teddybears which is terribly cool. But it isnt that hot as a octave divider. 

BUT...Neil Young used one and has said that it is his favorite octave pedal. This means that the pedal immediately becomes ever so desireable. So if you watch the video below you just might hear some of that cool rugged Neil Younginess going on...

Treating drums thru the MU-tron octave divider