Jens proposed to me on the mountain hike in the region of Jämtland in the north of Sweden. After days of walking, eating, putting up the tent and sleeping, waking up, eating, walking…our minds had entered into that state when…
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The Stories Behind The Songs
Behind every song there's a story. Why and when we wrote it, why we recorded it and all the memories connected to it. Read and enjoy!
I Still Dance - the Story of a dancer and a 'hand pan' musician
(by Svan, social media promoter for Pia Fridhill) This is a very special time for me because we’re officially releasing “I still dance” via Pias website! The story behind the song?
Back in September 2020 I asked Jens if…
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Maybe things will be better & Time
In 2005/2006 Jens had a sabbatical from his job as an English & Spanish teacher in Mönchengladbach, Germany. This is when we moved from Cologne to Kall in the German Eifel where we live now but first, we tried living…
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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler - Let the good times roll!
How a blues samba with a message was born
Because I’m Swedish and we live in Germany, we spend our summer holidays in a small red summer cottage in Sweden. It’s pretty close to my family so that everyone…
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Freedom Feet - a tribute to running
(by Pia Fridhill) They claim there are lots of songs about running but most of them only use 'run' or 'running' as a metaphor for freedom, escape, a state of mind, being chased or chasing after something or someone: Born…
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Only Me - all the bright places
(by Pia Fridhill) More seldom than not I read a book that I'll never forget, a book that touches the innermost of my being, either with its poetic and beautiful language like Alice Walkers 'The Color Purple' or with its…
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Breakfast On The Roof - how it all started
(by Pia Fridhill) The year 2002 was the beginning of our musical career, the beginning of our marriage and the beginning of our songwriting learning process. We'd met the British blues- & jazz veteran John C. Marshall, moved to Cologne…
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Soul Cooking - love food, love music
(by Pia Fridhill) For 'Soul Cooking' I spent many months collecting lines, rhymes and phrases about our two favourite occupations: cooking and music. I thought it would be a fitting theme for a funky song and I had this…
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The Vacation - a poem by Wendell Barry
(by Pia Fridhill) Jens loves to fiddle new song ideas on his guitar while watching football (soccer). One of his ideas, an instrumental piece in the style of melodious finger picking guitar, had accompanied him during hundreds of football matches…
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Get It While You Can - a proclamation against the musical devaluation disaster
(by Pia Fridhill) The song 'Get It While You Can' is an hommage to the original Authenticity, Creativity and Musical Festivity that comes with writing music not for profit, but for the sake of Music Itself. It's a proclamation against…
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