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!

'Who' - remembering grandma

It's funny how strongly I connected to my grandma Anna-Lisa - it was like we were one and the same person, born to live out different decades. When she died I felt like the earth opened beneath me and…

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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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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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