This is probably the saddest announcement I would have to make in a long time, but there is no other way to put it than saying it as straightforward as it is: Everpure is no more. I finally decided to put a full stop on a story that went on for about 15 years now. It’s been amazing times – creative, inspiring, and I learned a lot about making music, myself and not least the environment that I’d interact with all the time.
However, in the recent past, it became less fun, and more difficult to achieve well-working agreements with the rest of the band; both regarding commitments and artistic issues. And all that to a level that I don’t bother taking any further.
I really had wonderful days with all these incarnations of Everpure – the acoustic duo with Mole, the luxury artist trio including HaWe, my solo times during the Surgery By Numbers period (thank you, Peter, for that great title!), and of course playing with Beritt and Jonas at Copenhagen’s very own and most cool venue Lille Vega, being the most recent highlight. It has been a wonderful journey through so many musical styles and genres – all from singer/songwriter through indie rock to trip-hop inspired electronica – that this band might cover a quite extraordinary back catalog. And I will keep that in my heart forever.
But right now, my heart stopped beating for Everpure, and the book has to be closed to give space for a new book to be opened. I’m sure, all of us will find a new musical home eventually – just like Mole did with her band The Newts. So, stay tuned with Beritt, Jonas and myself at the various places on the web. And enjoy the past by listening to those songs and watching those videos that will remain on the never-forgetting internet.
Finally, I managed to finish the first of the two full live videos of our concerts at the Emergenza Festival earlier this year. So, here is the full concert we played at the Danish Emergenza Festival’s semi finals at Lille Vega in Copenhagen. Five songs, from start to end. Uncut.
Recently, I took a bike trip to the wonderful Gribskov forest in the north of Copenhagen. The weather was beautiful, we got hundreds of mosquito bites, and I shot a couple of random scenes with my little digital compact camera. Back home, I thought I’d try to put them together with one of our latest Everpure songs. So, here is my very first attempt in creating a music video. Nothing fancy, nothing special, not even any celebrities. Just some late summer forest atmosphere. Enjoy it!
Troels Abrahamsen, whose tremendous album WHT I have praised elsewhere on this site, has recently submitted the vocal track of the song End Scene from that album for free download and encouraged people to remix him. The article in his blog is here.
This is not only very kind and generous, especially when considering the fact that he has released that track under a Creative Commons license, but also a great opportunity, because the song itself is a great tune. You can listen to the original version here. I found myself thinking over Troels’ sound and style quite a couple of times when making my own music, and here is my chance to contribute with a new angle to his work. That is amazing!
So, I did a remix. Sort of. It’s probably rather what you’d call bastard pop. I had this idea last night – right before I fell asleep, and tried it earlier this evening, and it seemed to work quite well. I took one of my own songs (Untitled 6, which I wrote in March/April 2008, being inspired by Portishead’s concert in KB Hallen), and put it together with Troels’ vocals. And this is what it turned out to be. If you like it, you are welcome to download the song and take it with you on your mp3 player and share it with your friends.
So, vrpr.org is online again. After some months without a proper home for all my thoughts and activities, I will continue with this site. I plan to share any news about my band Everpure, any other music I might be involved in, and a lot of other stuff that I might find interesting enough to tell you about. Feel free to comment, share and spread the word!