Frederik Thaae

THE BIG CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR SPECIAL!

Hello and YO HO HO all you dear and happy people!

Yes, this is the great and exciting One Weekly Gun Christmas and New Year Special 2008.

We have come a long way this year. A lot has happened.
For my part 2008 has been crammed with stuff to do – my wedding, travels, a new job etc.
And in between I have tried to cover the some of the important events in the world in song, as I see them.

One Weekly Gun has taken off. This is the 39th and final song of 2008.

To celebrate 2008 I here present a very special episode. The very first song of OWG has been transformed from a lo-fi/first-take piece to a complete outta this world treat for all of you. It’s been recorded by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra in a FANTASTIC arrangement by my friend Jakob Faurholt and mixed by two other magnificent guys: Frederik Thaae and Kristian Thomsen.

Afterwards we added a beautiful X-mas choir and my pathetic voice. The result is of course stunning and absurd in the same time.

‘But this must have taken may more time than three hours?’ you might ask.

The answer is yes. But I thought it would be fun to step out of the OWG procedure for this one time. I guess this episode took the same amout of time to do, as all the 38 other episodes accumulated.

Why? Because anything is possible. One Weekly Gun is about just that. In our time the world is FLOODED with talent. Way too much for anyone to comprehend in a lifetime. Much of it never gets an audience. Now, I don’t consider myself a big talent, but I treasure my abilities enough to show them to the world. The world belongs to you and me, and you should not hesitate to get out there and do what you have to do.

One Weekly Gun wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Remember, that you can download all the songs for free here. Or at ReverbNation.
Or import all of it into Itunes by clicking here.

See you in 2009!

One Xmas Song Every Week
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Maybe I’m not really the kind of man you want
Crouching in my chair, and sleeping everywhere
One thing makes up for all the work I haven’t done
It’s the songs I sing, that noone listens to.

One song every week
Now that’s what you’re getting
It’s really a treat for all my fans out there.
So I’m really busy writing songs every week
And that is what you’ll get

One song every week
No time for rehearsal
It’s one take a week
With limited production
And everything is free
This really is suicide
For I’m so damn busy writing songs every week.
And that is quite absurd

One song every week
No less could have done it
You’re climbing your peak
No benefit from it
Cause you’re to damn busy writing songs every week
And that’s a weird idea

One song every week
You know what I’ve been through
The world’s biggest geek
Despite this will continue.
This years’s winning streak
Without hesitation.
So I’ll just continue writing songs week after week
And that is what you’ll get.

One Xmas Song A week
Music and Words: One Weekly Gun

Musical Arrangement: Jakob Faurholt
Mix and production: Frederik Thaae and Kristian Thomsen
Production Engineer: Lars C. Bruun
Orchestra conducted by: Michael Bojesen
Ensemble: The Danish National Chamber Orchestra

Choir:
Conductor: Jonas Nørgaard Sørensen
Soprano: Frederikke Kampmann
Alto: Anna-Kajsa Holmberg
Tenor: Søren Rubæk Hansen
Basso: Erik Nørgaard
Basso: Steffen Bruun
Photos: Flemming Gernyx

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One Weekly Gun with the Orchestra

Above you see a snapshot from One Weekly Gun’s session with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
(Yours truly in the middle)

“What?” – you might ask. And with every right. You’re probably used to the lo-fi sounds of OWG by now. You know when you only have three hours to do everything from getting the idea, to publishing the song, sometimes it affects the ‘quality’ of the sounds. I try hard to cope with these challenges – If I can’t get an instrument to sound right, it’s better to lose it. The three hour limit often get’s it’s significant saying on the sound of the song.

But this time it’s different. We are recording a brilliant episode for new year for yo

u guys! More than 50 musicians will be participating! It’s a mastodont musical frame around my little voice. The production is handled by A Kid Hereafter and my friend Jakob Faurholt.
(In the picture above you can see the boys on the right). One Weekly Gun and Frederik Thaae AKA A Kid Hereafter

The song we are recording is a rendition of the very first song here at One Weekly Gun. It’s called ‘One Song Every Week’ and can be heard here.

Much has changed since then. When I recorded the first song, I only had the idea of weekly songs for like 5 minutes. It all went very fast. My wife came home, and I was all excited. “Guess what! I’m gonna do weekly songs now!!!”.

“…ok!?!…”

I didn’t know how far this would take me.

Right now I’m still feeling like, I’m giving birth to the concept. Every day new thoughts and ideas about the future of the blog is created in my brain. I’m getting a lot of mail feedback from all you guys out there. I really appreciate it. Both when you tell me you love OWG and when you tell me you don’t.

Please continue to do so, and post comments here on the site.

So what is One Weekly Gun apart from a nerdy punk guy’s naive dream of revolution of the web and international music business? I’ll get back to that in a future post.

In the meantime, if you want to be among the first to receive the New Year special complete with the big orchestra go sign up for the newsletter. That way you’ll get it straight to your inbox, when it’s launched!

Bye

Owg

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