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It’s old news that Coldplay’s Chris Martin totally loves ’80s pop band A-Ha — he’s claimed them as his first favorite band and credited them for “incredible songwriting.” Okay, we guess. “Take On Me” was a good one, and we admit that the video is a winner. But now, Martin’s bandmate, bassist Guy Berryman, is the one blessed with the honor of teaming up with A-Ha’s Magne Furuholmen (keyboardist) and producer Martin Terefe as well as Mew’s frontman Jonas Bjerre to create a new musical (and multimedia?) project they call Apparatjik. We admit, we kind of assumed that the guys from A-Ha were dead. But it makes sense that they’re not — it was only the ’80s, after all.
The new supergroup (can we call it a supergroup?) has a website, which is super bizarre but actually kind of cool in its playful obliqueness: clicking on the nonsense sections will get you random (if often hilarious) pictures, sound bites and old-school YouTube videos. Apparently, however, die-hard fans have been trying to work out some sort of connecting link since September, and the group recently rewarded the 30 nerds with the best theories with a totally exclusive track, entitled “Electric Eye.” One of those fans has shared a sample with the class, but we say it’s not enough to judge.
What say you? Are we looking at the birth of a supergroup?
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6 Responses
It’s “Electric Eye”, not “Eagle Eye”.
I’m pretty confused with the person who is siging. I heard it was Guy Berryman, but then the guy from Mew or whatever…Someone please clarify. As for the song, its pretty good. Im usually hard rock and limestone rock (coldplay, oasis, ect) but for electronic music, its not have bad. I like the vocals and i agree with the website. its pretty good
I think it’s probably on this track it’s Guy Berryman singing, because it doesn’t sound like Magne or Jonas.
But don’t be surprised if on the new album all will be singing at one time or another.
If anything this group is flexible.
I was one of those ‘nerds’ ;-) so I have heard the track already and can confirm it’s so much better than the sample indicates. The main vocal seems to be Guy, then Jonas has a short solo. It’s quite rocky towards the end; the guitars are beautiful. This is going to be an album that everyone should get excited about, not just Mew/Coldplay/a-ha fans :-)
I love Apparatjik!! Sadly, I’m not one of the “nerds” because I wasn’t creative enough to connect the videos, but I’m eagerly awaiting the track (and the album, whenever that drops). Based on the other tracks they’ve already released, like “Ferreting” on “Amazon Tribe – Songs For Survival” or tracks that were on their myspace, I agree with Nerd A that this album should have a lot to offer and is going to be awesome!
A-ha was always underappreciated. They were indeed great songwriters (much better than Coldplay).