Album

 

Veins

Written by Canadian singer-songwriter Charlotte Martin
Arranged by Line Groth and Tine Fris
The opening song of the album features celloist Johanne Andersson. The mix of the human voices, the artificial sounds of the Kaoss Pad, the alternated sounds of the human beat and the soft and yearning sound of the cello creates a new setting to Charlotte Martin's heartfelt lyrics and winding melody.
The album cover is inspired by the title of this song: The anatomic heart symbolising both love, fragility, passion and mortality. In the cover the veins are replaced with cables that connects the heart to the rest of the instruments pictured in the cover.

Go! Don't Stop!

Written by Tine Fris
Arranged by Kristoffer Fynbo Thorning, Line Groth and Tine Fris
This was one of the first songs on the Postyr Project repertoire. The idea for the melody appeared one night between Christmas and New Year's Eve, when Tine was riding her bike home from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. It goes out to all the single ladies searching for Mr. Right. At one point Postyr Project considered making an animated music video of the song, starring a big fat spiderqueen and a tiny man who tries to escape the queen's overwhelming need for affection, instead we ended up with a more vunerable visual interpretation of the song.
See the animated music video here.

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Interlude

Written by Line Grith and Andreas Bech
In the Interlude the cello ones again sets the scene with long soft waves of dark rich sound and harsh high pitched noise.

A Wave

Written by Andreas Bech
Andreas Bech wrote this song in the context of the tsunami that hit the coasts of East-Asia in December 2004. The 2011-version of the song features Rasmus Friis on abrupt and energetic drums.

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In Vernalis

Arranged by Line Groth and Kristoffer Fynbo Thorning
The title "In Vernalis" is short for a the old Danish traditional "In Vernalis Temporis" originally written in the dome of Postyr Project's home town, Aarhus, in the 14th century. The melody is said to be Finnish, but the song is now one of the most well-known songs in Aarhus, hench that fact that the bells from the tower of the City Council plays the melody every evening. For many years, the song was sung every year on the first day of Spring, while the students of the Cathedral school brought wild flowers from the outskirts into the streets of the city. To this day the students at Aarhus Katedralskole sing the song on special occations and on graduation day.
Line and Kristoffer's arrangement takes us on a journey through time and presents how the pestilential cold of Winter burst into the playful ease of Spring.

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Elpa (Breath)

Written by Kristoffer Fynbo Thorning
Elpa was originally written for a concert tour with The Royal Academy of Music in 2007. Back then the song was titled "Breath".
The song is inspired by Björk's album "Medúlla". In March 2010, when Postyr had just begun working on the song, Kristoffer, Tine and Line happened to join an afterglow dinner together with the Latvian vocal group, Cosmos, in relation to their performance at the AAVF Support Festival 2010.
Kristoffer fell into conversation with Janis Shipsi and told him about our emerging project and this song, hoping that Janis Shipsi would be interested in featuring in the song. It so happened that Janis Shipsi is also a poet, and that he had written a poem in Latvian about the exact same theme as Kristoffer's song. When Janis Shipsi got back to Latvia he recorded the poem, the theme of the song and a few improvised melody lines and sent them to Denmark for us to finish the arrangement.
Elpa is the Latvian word for Breath
Tak, Janis Shipsi is Danish for: Thank you, Janis Shipsi.

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Broken

Written by Kajsa Vala Arranged by Line Groth
Kajsa Vala is a danish singer-songwriter who is also our fellow student at the Royal Academy of Music. When Line first heard this song, the lyrics and the melody made such a powerful expression that she just had to make an a cappella version of it to be sung by Postyr. It turned into a version where the heartbreaking story of the song really stands out - a very simple arrangement delivered by 5 voices and limited use of delay or other effects. Broken is one of the few songs in our repertoire we sing without the use of any electronic equipment. When performed live, we often sing it acoustically.

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An Open Chapter

Written by Anders Hornshøj Laugesen
Anders wrote the first sketches to this song in the very midst of Winter 2010. Recorded late at night in his homestudio the rest of the group could already feel the special airy wibe of the song, when he presented the tracks for the group on a weekend rehearsal in the beautiful surroundings of South Funen.
The final mix and arrangement of the song was made by Morten Vinther Sørensen at the Real Studio in Sweden.

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OMG

Written by Tine Fris
The song is written by Tine Fris and is one of the newest song on the Postyr Project repertoire. It unfolds yet another perspective of the everlasting search of love, hope and vitality that are adressed in her other songs. The title refers to the outburst of a certain comic figure in the TV-series "Friends" and is like the rest of the song partly a joke, partly heartfelt. The naïve melody and the playful sound contradict the harsh lyrics and the hidden emotions between the lines. Is she over him? Is she really as strong as she pretends to be?
Is love really something you can joke about?

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RunRunRun

Written by Tine Fris
Arranged by Tine Fris and Line Groth
Turn up the volume in your car-radio and hit the road. This song goes out to everyone who has a dream, every one who can just feel that they need to do something big or go somewhere new, but haven't really figured out where that new place is, or what their marvelous idea is yet. This is a song to all the people, who woke up one morning and just felt the blood pumping in their veins and the urge to take it to the next level in their hearts.

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Walking

Written by Andrea Bech
Arranged by Line Groth
You can learn a lot from peple who are older and wiser than yourself. Andreas Bech certainly can agree to that, in his song "Walking" is based on a line picked up from his grandmother on the day of his grandfathers passing. Upon a question about wheather she had had a good life, she replied, that her life indeed had been full of so many different colours. They hadn't all been pretty, but at this point in her life she realised that she wouldn't have missed a single one of them. In a way, these words perhaps also summarize the aim of this very album.
The voice is probably the instrument in the world that has the most different sound colours. In music we tend to show only the pretty ones, but real life is different. If we want music to ressemble, who we really are roughness, noise and other unpleasant things must be allowed to be present in the soundscape. At first you may want to close your eyes and ears to it, but hopefully in time it is possible to learn to enjoy the nature of all the colours, just like Andreas' grandmother does.

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Go! Don't Stop! (Electrocrank Remix)

You can read more about Electrocrank and the remix project here

Breath (SWAB Remix)

You can read more about SWAB and the remix project here

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