Difference Release Today Today Hooray
TODAY TODAY, we are launching the new and improved Marybell blog and the brand new Marybell shop. Currently you will be experiencing some irregularities - so be kind to us, before the end of the day it will all be fixed. In the shop you can subscribe to our new single Difference, and pick your own price. What will happen is that you will receive our version of the song, and in the future you will recieve several other versions of the same song, made by other artists. So when you wake up in the morning and feel like some slow Difference, you can pick say the Billy Ray Cyrus version (still haven't heard from him...but waiting)
Next week I promise you a pleasant version for you by a danish band that made a song called "Initials SG", anyone up for a wild guess????
By the way, the DJs for the tomorrow night Regnsky, also have a blog about music, where you can read a bit more about the gig
>the 27. and all that will happen before
>May always seem to attack you when you least expect it - suddenly we are drowned in good work with new singles, new webpage, new shop, new concerts, new recordings and all the other stuff that surrounds you with passive aggression. Next thursday the 27. we will play at Pumpehuset in Cph with Slaraffenklang - a mix between Slaraffenland & Efterklang - a lovely evening I suspect - actually Kasper, the singer of Efterklang often performed our song Lost Ship live with us, and Anders Boll who I introduced earlier is their soundguy - Denmark is very small...Here is a picture from our Roskilde show where Kasper is with us some years ago:
read about the concert here
and a bit about our upcoming single on subscribtion here
Ganz toll.
>Who is the best?
>We have a problem choosing who of us i most worthy of recording the drums for Dexter II...last sunday we spend arguing if I should play the drums
or Q, what do you think....be honest!
I personally think that I rock, but I can hear that with some more practise, maybe Q has a chance in the future...He is just trying a bit too hard, playing cool and tough!
>Listen to our new single Difference
>Presenting a new different member of the marybell bunch of songs called Difference
Soon we will add a new shop where you can choose what to pay for our version of Difference, and all the other versions of the same song, by different artists as a subscription for Different Difference. More about that later...
>In the radio tonight with Difference
>Tonight I will talk for a whole hour about Marybell, music and stuff in our college radio Aarhus Studenterradio. You can also listen here . I think I will actually bring the new and not-even-released-yet-single Difference. So go for a ride in you old car and tune in at 98,7 FM if you still know how to....
>#1 Different Difference
>The idea is to make the song Difference in many many different versions that we will release as time passes - made by different artist we think is different enough to make a differet difference. Here you see Jens Mønsted working on his club-difference, and me and Q trying to be cool with the sound of the young. Boy, I look forward to compare this to the version made by Bronson Brothers. Hopefully they will be released together with our version (and maybe a couple more) in about a month or so, right here...
#1 Different Differences feat. Jens Mønsted from marybell katastrophy on Vimeo.
>Presenting Anders Boll
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I will continue presenting some of the most important co-creators of Marybell as a whole. I already introduces my sister and Q the famous drummer and also composer of some of the early and upcoming Marybell songs. Today I would like to start at the beginning, introducing my first Marybell collaborator Anders Boll. He is my old friend and we followed eachother at almost every concert I played for many years - with Anders as sound engineer. Before Marybell it was my youth band Baton Rouge, then a lot of touring with Tiger Tunes. But when I started making Marybell music I asked Anders for mixing and programming help and he did a lot of the early stuff eg. on the song Hip. We are actually doing new stuff together now on some of the new songs, so I´m proud to introduce this fantastic friend! He also made the first Maria Timm album with her and does sound for great acts as eg. Efterklang.
>Teaser
>Here is a little snippet from our newest song Difference that I told you about before - Morten Søndergaard made the lyrics and Q is playing the drums on the track. The pictures are from our last gig at Aarhus University - where Q didn´t play the drums, but took a lot of pictures as you see:
Difference Teaser from marybell katastrophy on Vimeo.
We have great plans with this song, as we invited some danish artists we know to make other versions of the song - a hole coleection of Different Differences!
We will of course get back to this later when the music is ready from Bronson Brothers, Jens Mønsted, Cabin Fever, Darling Don´t Dance, Beta Satan and hopefully more....
>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!