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Swimming without webbed toes was released 1st of November 2007, as a debut album but at the same time it became more of a collection of productions created in the past - some of them originally recorded back in 2003. I produced this album together with Staffan Österlind, who is known as guitarist from Paul Di Anno, Bloom and Merry Gold. The album tells a story about the different sides of me. Sun and Shadow (Sol Skugga) and the borderline in between. It was written in a kinda dark period of my life, when I found myself surrounded by depressed friends, dying beloved once, physical unidentified pain and so on. I have always been seen as a spark; a flame and a glowing smile to my surroundings, but during that period - underneath my university studies and colorful clothes, I learnt sorrow, grief and I really struggled to keep the good karma floating around me. Therefor, this album is haunted, sad, but also filled with faith, lust and a fighting mind. I never let go of love, trust, passion and curiosity. The future will always withhold a choice, and I will always choose to meet each morning with a brave smile. Love/Sol
Beyond the songs:You are free to have your own independent relationship to my lyrics, and my songs, but to me - this is what they illustrate.
Crash:Malmö. Early morning. Chaos inside. I walked cold streets after a night filled with passion (for the first time after 2 years in celibate) and recorded the feeling to my cellphone with the biggest smile on my lips ;) I hope you'll feeeeeel me too! *smiles*
Am I:I have been loved and I have loved. But the border between friendship and love always become the edge I cut my fingertips upon. To often the past haunts me, and forces me to let go of the one I love the most. As I wrote this song I stood as a living question mark; embracing that big, empty, lonely loneliness...again.
Avenge Revange:Pain. Pride and strength. This song is about a few things that made me not only a Sun but also a Shadow as far back in time as 1996...My dearest guitarist Staffan Österlind from Paul DiAnno, added some heavy guitars to my electronic landscape and made it just the way I wanted it. Raw, sexy, angry and a bit sad at the same time.
Guilty:I see the world and people in it with my eyes wide open. I see beauty, but also foolishness: human behavior in all shapes. I choose not to ignore others misery and I face experiences coming my way as they are. Good or bad. That's a decision I have made, and I hope (if I can help my self) that I will never stop growing as a person. This song is a prayer that life will never leave me satisfied, and that I will stay humble and open minded.
I'm not:Oh, about the stupid but understandable fight to fit into society, relationships you were not made for etc. Independent or not, I have joined the masquerade at times and dressed myself in unfitting costumes to please people around me. Two years ago I reached a point where I could not force myself to work 8-5 where I felt no passion, to fake a "stay-home-and-be-satisfied-(when I were not)-girlfriend-type", and not fucking whomever I wanted to fuck at that time...
P.O.T.MPhases Of The Moon, an old song, from 2003, written as I spent days and nights trying to help a friend lost in his own dispear, psychical disorders and private misfortunes. I lost myself in that struggle and learn that no matter your good will or purpose, you can never help someone who have not yet decided to stand up, and you can never give what is refused to be received. You can change your attributes to others likes or dislikes, but it won't change a damn thing, if they do not appreciate you from scratch.
Ghost:The ghost in my room. The shade of my very first love. She was the other side of me, a coin, a laughter. Seriously I even thought about changing my sex to be with her, but obviously I didn't. (Good for me, I love being a woman) Oh well. That's the story...I recorded it in an abandoned railway station in the middle of Sweden 2001 or something like that... So it's an oooold song.
Stand my ground:My opinion on un-supportive and negative people. I have always been a big dreamer, with projects, adventures and big hopes for the world. Imagine the amount of people I have met that told me to slow down, to not be so naive and to focus on "safe" solutions.I just say do what you have to, as long as you don't hurt people to reach your dream. In the end, we're all gonna die, and that day, you'll be very very alone with your memories, and what you did or not. Obviously.
Don't (depend on me)As so many of my other songs, this one is partly written to myself, partly to a person in my past, who I failed and who failed me. We tried so hard to create something true upon our separate hopes for a future that our surroundings expected from us, and I bent and twisted myself till everything fell apart and I had to accepted what I really felt inside and needed.
Dear Sister:A monologue about life, about personal growth, about loving the person in the mirror. About loosing and finding oneself. Over and over again...
Maarion:We all have our moments of loneliness. I have shared my life with one single person/character, existing only in my dreamworld where I go every night while asleep. He's like a brother and has always been there, listening to and supporting me. A "guardian angel" in my private universe. I suddenly stopped dreaming, and my inside felt like a big black hole each morning I woke up...A feeling of loosing oneself.
Tonight:Outro on Swimming Without Webbed Toes. Not much to say. Life is a scale of balance, and I'm okay with it no matter how it treats me. And you can never love to much...Buy signed Swimming without webbed toes album directly from me!
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