G.U.T.

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Music is the way I share what I have seen

My only drug is madness my bloodstream is clean

Why do you need powder to behave like a star

I say like Kurt Cobain, come as you are



We want to be loved to be worshipped as gods

We sell our asses to be ridiculed as sods

An artist should live forgotten abroad

Away from TV and the celebrity fraud



I travel the world but haven't seen much

The visions I have come through the sense of touch

So this is my fate telling stories to the beat

Sculpted in the hall where sound and meaning meet



I am no media star, communication breakdown,

This is aimed at the ether of the underground.

Ape’s my existence and ape’s my excuse,

If you’ve never suffered I can take the abuse.



G.U.T. is the zoological garden of my mind, where scores of weird beasts run around in frenzy and freedom. Since 1999 I have been writing electronica-based songs, and in August 2005 I finally committed myself to making a full album. For that purpose I rented the Graffitti Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria for four weeks' worth of studio time. Working in a wholly new country with new people turned into a genuine pleasure, given the resolute professionalism of the Graffitti crew. Ognian Kiossovski engineered the recording sessions. The Bulgarian composer and conductor Christo Pavlov arranged six of the G.U.T. songs for the Strrings (sic!) Quartet. After a rather quiet year with some additional vocal takes and editing by the sea in Kragerø, Norway, I received a generous grant from the Cultiva Express trust in Kristiansand, sponsoring the mixing of the album. Consequently I asked the mixer Endre Kirkesola at Dub Studio to board ship. The album "My Only Drug Is Madness" was released through my own label, Inhuman Music, in May 2007.



After ten years of working with various well-established record labels, I decided to go solo. Being the total-control anarchist that I am, I wanted to experience the whole process of writing, performing, producing, publishing, promoting and financing an album, addressed to the people that really matter: the fanatics that enjoy my music. You will see no magazine ads for the album, and only a handful of reviews, if any. The release of "My Only Drug Is Madness" is an experiment in order to know if and how self-publication works. The album is available from my mail-order company in Berlin, as well as from Twilight Distribution (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Indie Distribution (Norway), Season of Mist (France) and CDBaby (USA). I pressed 1000 hand-numbered and signed copies of the album.



A number of skilled people contributed to the G.U.T. process. Tori Wrånes, Olav Benestvedt and Simen Høgdal Pedersen kindly lent their voices. Christo Pavlov's arrangements and the Strrings' performance give the songs an orchestral sheen. Donny of the Bulgarian pop combo Popcorn brought his armada of synthesizers to the studio (among which a Soviet RITM 2 and a German Vermona stood out), doing sound replacements and occasional key contributions.