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Stephane Lord's avatar

I think "To Be Gone" is the song you did that I love the most. For me, this is a masterpiece.

I always feel very emotive when I listen to it.

So happy to hear the story about how this song came to life as it always been very special to me.

I would love so much to hear the demo version of this song.

P.S. I love the French version you did :)

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Anna Ternheim's avatar

Thanks Stephane!! I have to convert some old mini discs laying around... its on my list

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Popmarter's avatar

I am a collector/archivist of (live) music, and ‘having old minidiscs laying around’ is really testing my level of ‘greediness’ ;)

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Stephane Lord's avatar

That's great news! I would be more than happy to purchase some old demos...

Just a bit sad, not having the chance to see you play live anymore. I was lucky enough to see you, many years ago, when you played in Montreal in 2008 (with El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li)

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Nele's avatar

"To be gone" is one of my favourites of your songs. I am really happy about your post, because I write songs like that too- I wait for them to come to me, and when I have played and written down it feels like this song existed exactly like that before. I cant always explain where they come from, but the singing and playing always comforts me. It is relieving that you have that feeling too; sometimes I am scared that song actually did exist before and I write it out of parts I half remember. Thank you for that post.

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Darren Ager's avatar

Hopefully you don’t need to get run over for inspiration now . Thanks for sharing the story Anna

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Anna Ternheim's avatar

Running always inspires me... but I take it easy these days😊

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