Posted: May 27th, 2011 | Author: David Myhr | Filed under: post | Tags: abbey road, album, beatles, david bowie, david myhr, looking for a life, mastering, single, soundshine, steve rooke | 1 Comment »
Dear followers of the development of my solo debut album Soundshine scheduled for release in the fall of 2011. Today May 27 is a somewhat historic day – at least for me and for my album! I am very happy to announce that the album will be finished later today! Exactly one year and three days after the initial recordings took place in Stockholm. As I’m writing this I’m sitting back in a sofa enjoying the finished recordings in a mastering room at nothing less than ABBEY ROAD studios! Together with Steve Rooke, senior mastering engineer here at Abbey Road and my mixing engineer Marcus Black we’re going through all the songs on the album one by one giving them the last final touch. Later we will be joined by my wife Paula who is so far the only honorary (or should I say just only?) member of my fan club.
For me as a die-hard follower of the Beatles since childhood it’s of course a very special feeling to be on the actual inside the world’s most famous studio complex. The studio where all the Beatles albums were recorded! I’ve been outside a few times before in my life. Doing the famous walk over the zebra crossing of course – but was never before allowed to actually enter until today when I am here as a client. But as always – the building is one thing – the equipment another – but in the end it’s the ears of people who has been around that you’re paying for. And to say Steve Rooke has been around is an understatement. He has been working here since 1983 and was part of the team doing the Beatles remasters that was released in 2009 and has re-mastered albums by all the four Beatles solo catalogues and has also mastered albums by many other artists from David Bowie to the Cure. So I figured – if it worked for the Beatles it should work for me as well!
Steve is tapping his foot and seem to be enjoying his working day and is giving thumbs up to both the songs and the mixes which of course is making me and Marcus proud and happy!
Abbey Road studios is still a very active commercially functioning studio and for instance today there’s going to be strings recorded for the last Harry Potter movie down in the enormous Studio 1. The same studio where the Beatles recorded “All you need is love” which was broadcasted to the world back in 1967. Marcus and I got here early today so we could enjoy a proper English breakfast in the canteen and just “by accident” we managed to sneak into both Studio 1 and Studio 2 which was the main studio for the Beatles all the way from 1962-1970. A memory that will definitely last a lunchtime!
I hope to be able to make a small video blog from this visit later that will be up on my YouTube channel but for now please enjoy a picture from the inside of mastering room no 7 at Abbey Road Studios.
Don’t forget to check back on June 1st for the premiere of my new single and video “Looking for a life”.
Peace and love!
David Myhr
Posted: May 6th, 2011 | Author: David Myhr | Filed under: post | Tags: all star united, eskelin, itunes, looking for a life, mattsson, merrymakers, nashville, popsicle, single, soundcloud, soundshine, spotify, stockholm | 1 Comment »
Summer is not too far away now and my contribution to the soundtrack for your summer will be the second single from the upcoming album Soundshine. The song is called “Looking for a life” and will be released on June 1st worldwide on iTunes Store and various other digital platforms.
An accompanying video with sceneries from beautiful Stockholm will have its premiere on the same day on my YouTube Channel.
The melody for this song was written in Nashville a few years ago when I hooked up with the American songwriter Ian Eskelin (All Star United). It was one of my first co-writing experiences outside of my previous band the Merrymakers. As an artist and writer Eskelin has had more than thirty Top 10 singles in the United States, including 12 #1 charting songs. He has additionally had international #1 songs in various countries including Japan, Singapore, and Australia.
The song was lacking a lyric for a while until I had the brilliant idea to ask Andreas Mattsson for help. Part of the reason for this was the fact that Ian Eskelin had expressed a big interest in Swedish indie-pop music from the 90’s including Mattsson’s former band Popsicle and my own former band the Merrymakers. So it kind of made sense.
On this song as well as on the rest of the album I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with co-producer Andreas Dahlbäck (Lundell, Ternheim, Motorhomes, Eskobar) who also plays the drums. The other musicians featured on this single are Anders Pettersson (The Perishers, Deportees) and Rikard Lidhamn (Oh! Laura).
Please check back here my the official web site or at my Facebook Band Page on June 1st for the world premiere of my summer single “Looking for a life”. And while waiting for the next single please enjoy a very recent interview that I made for the on-line magazine Über Röck.
Posted: February 28th, 2011 | Author: David Myhr | Filed under: post | Tags: bandcamp, blog, got you where he wanted, itunes, release, single, soundcloud, soundshine, spotify | 10 Comments »
Hello everybody! Big news!
The single “Got you where he wanted” which is the first teaser from my upcoming solo debut album Soundshine is finally released! Listen to it by pressing “play” on the music player to the right and go to Music to find various options on how to download your free copy from Bandcamp or SoundCloud. Are you one of those people who prefer to buy music I’m happy to inform you that you can do so at iTunes Store. Or if you prefer listening to streaming music you can do that as well on Spotify. At the Music page you’ll also be able to download the artwork in order to check out all the cool musician credits etc. The official video can be found below, or together with some other behind the scenes video stuff at Videos. Should you happen to like what you see or hear please feel welcome to spread the word to other music lovers by liking, sharing, commenting wherever you have the possibility. Enjoy! Thanks a lot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKchUecOCM
Posted: February 14th, 2011 | Author: David Myhr | Filed under: post | Tags: itunes, release, single, soundshine | 1 Comment »
The first single ”Got You Where He Wanted” from my forthcoming solo debut Soundshine will be released worldwide digitally on iTunes Store and here at my official web site on March 1. On the same day the video will have its premiere at my YouTube channel. On the album I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with co-producer Andreas Dahlbäck (Lundell, Ternheim, Motorhomes, Eskobar) who also plays the drums. Among the other musicians featured on this single are Anders Pettersson (The Perishers, Deportees) and Rikard Lidhamn (Oh! Laura) and Michael Holt (The Mommyheads).
