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Firefox AK: Heart of Mine

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It’s been five years since Firefox AK (aka Andrea Kellerman) released Color the Trees, so we’re excited to hear that she is back with a new forthcoming album in early 2017. She teased us that she will once again be collaborating on a song with her friend Annika Norlin (Hello Saferide) on the new record (the two of them previously worked together on Hello Saferide’s ‘Long Lost Penpal’).

Why the long break? According to Kellerman, it was mostly due to the stress of trying to be successful at her record label: “I was probably naïve, but for me, who was used to the personal and loyal people at Razzia Records, it was almost shocking to all of a sudden work with people who were more concerned with sales figures than I was ever used to. In the end it took away the joy of making music.”

She took a break from music to raise her family (apparently in Los Angeles!) and worked as a graphic designer after all the tour promotion for Color the Trees.

Anyway, Firefox AK’s latest single and music video Heart of Mine is out now on Razzia, so she has not left the record label. The new single was produced by Claes Björklund, known for being in the duo Iamamiwhoami (with singer Jonna Lee), and the music video was directed by Mats Udd. The video has a creepy, demonic possession, vibe to it.

Sample lyrics from “Heart of Mine”:

“Told you like a thousand times
This is where I wanna be
Ruffling my feathers before your eyes

Never felt this way before
Never wanted nothing more
calling out the crazy before your eyes”

We’re big fans, of course. And in case you forget, we did speak with Andrea Kellerman when she first appeared at CMJ in 2008 via telephone. You can download the audio file on archive.org.

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Jonna Lee

Discography [Sep 2007] Dried Out Eyes (Single) [Oct 2007] 10 Pieces, 10 Bruises Influenced By Ben Gibbard, Rilo Kiley, Zero 7, Grandaddy, Ron Sexsmith, Ivy, Ed Harcourt, Dionne Warwick, Badly Drawn Boy, Supergrass, Val McDeermid, The Clash, The Beach Boys Footnotes [1] Information from Jonna Lee's Myspace Blog

Jonna Lee - Autumn Song Jonna Lee Sounds Like Hello Saferide - Long Lost Penpal http://weheartmus... Hello Saferide is from Stockholm, Sweden, and is really just Annika Norlin. The name was inspired... Feist - 1234 http://bol.vox.co... Feist is the solo project of Canada's Leslie Feist, a prolific artist who has also played in one...

Jonna Lee is originally from Stockholm, Sweden, but is currently living in London. Her debut solo album is called 10 Pieces, 10 Bruises and was released on October 10th, 2007 on Razzia Records. Supposedly she had released music when she was 16, but I couldn't find any information on her previous releases.

She wrote a full electro-influenced album prior to 10 Pieces, 10 Bruises, but then right before releasing the album in 2006, she changed her mind. You can listen to "Passerby", a demo from 2005 on her myspace page.

She then started working on brand new material with Claes Björklund (her fiancé). She wrote a song called "And Your Love" with Ed Harcourt in mind as the male singer. She sent the song to him and he loved it so much that he ended up producing and playing on most of her album.

Harcourt even invited Lee to be the opening act on his tour through Sweden and Norway, which, sadly, just ended on December 12th.

Regarding the album, I think it would've been kind of cool to have just 10 songs on the album (representing 10 Pieces/Bruises), but there is an eleventh track called "Prints" with "bonus track" written next to it. The only information about this song listed on the liner notes is that it was recorded at Ed Harcourt's house in London last August. They must've really liked this song to stick it on the album (probably at the very last minute!)

 

 

Jonna Lee - All I Want for Christmas Is You

There's some great songs on this album, including the single Dried Out Eyes and "I Wrote This Song", featuring Danny Goffey (from Supergrass^[W♥M]) on drums and backup singing. It's a fun love song: "I wrote this song about you/I thought it might attract you/Sweet thing now would you like to..."

 

Although this might not be considered "singles" friendly, I quite like "Autumn Song", complete with its clapping. It made me miss the orange leaves of the Fall... and it's the song I've chosen.

Anyway, in a Christmas-related song theme of late, she's recorded Mariah Carey's 1994 song, "All I Want For Christmas is You", at Johan Lundgren's new large studio.^[1] The song is available for download on her myspace.

 12/21/2007 00:09:18  vu my♥posts www.jonnalee.com