"A look in between" - by Torben

The rough wooden floorboards thumped beneath my shoes, a group of five or six men at the table to my left clapped slightly out of time, and the smell of Guinness spilled years ago filled the air.  My fellow musicians and I played the tune ‘Whiskey Before Breakfast’ – a little show piece in which the tempo increases with each repetition until it reaches an absurd speed at which no sane person would rush through such a lovely melody. I played the mandolin, the only melody instr

The sun was already low in the sky on this late autumn Monday evening – and I was on my way to the first blind date of my life. A musician had written to me saying he was starting a new band and was still looking for an electric guitarist. ‘Folk rock,’ he had said. Let's see, I thought. I entered the café we had agreed to meet at – a place with the charm of a 1950s bar in downtown Cologne, which even triggers nostalgia in younger people for a time they never experienced thems

‘Mark Knopfler asked me to tell you something,’ said our producer Jörn Schlüter when he returned to the wood-panelled control room of the venerable Studio Nord in Bremen. ‘You should pay more attention to the transitions in the songs.’ Everyone in the studio laughed. It was already our third day in the historic recording room of Studio Nord. Surrounded by legendary vintage equipment, we could feel the history of this special place in every fibre of our being. Since the studio