Apparatjik: Our plan was to become world class skiers

Group consisting of members from Mew, Coldplay and A-ha provides an insight into their unique universe

February 1. Apparatjik released their debut album, "We Are Here". This was done without great shout and scream as the music industry that often likes to utter when a new album to be promoted to all sorts of potential buyers. Instead, the group chose a message via his own publishing company and it has until now only been possible to order the album via apparatjik.com.

The four members are quite tanned gentlemen in the music industry and counts as Jonas Bjerre from Mew, Guy Berryman from Coldplay, Magne Furuholmen from A-ha and Martin Terefe, who produced, among others, Yusuf (Islam aka Cat Stevens), Jason Mraz and Teitur.

Previously, Jonas Bjerre told GAFFA that he originally met Magne Furuholmen in Moscow, where they both have to play concerts. The two came out so well that they kept in touch, and subsequently met with Mr Guy Berryman, who already knew Furuholmen.

The first thing that came out of the collaboration was the song Ferreting, who are on the album Songs For Survival, which was released in autumn in a BBC documentary on tribal by Amazon River, which number was the opening theme.

The first song was based on ideas that the members sent back and forth over the net. Then they met and recorded it on a single evening in a studio in Copenhagen, and then it was then mixed in London. Subsequently, the group recorded in Furuholmen study in Norway.

By GAFFA repeated attempts to interview the group about "We Are Here", the four members insisted on only giving answers as a whole, just as they like to be deliberately cryptic - or attempted witty, or just annoying depending on each reader's literary and humor preferences.

On the discrete release of the album make the following comments:

– Discreet?! Discreet?! There is no discretion in Apparatjik. Strategy, yes. We are so strategic that it will be totally self-destructive. Every strategy we use is perfectly designed to do away with others' boring strategies. We would prefer not to make music than to abandon our strategies. Strategies is the only way to feel the unity of when you are not together.

The question of whether some members took more initiative than others to the formation of the group is the answer the following:

– Yes, everyone took more initiative than any other. Originally, we were attracted to each other, but it's gone over. Our plan was to get together and become world class skiers. But then it all went wrong.

Having members from Mew, Coldplay and A-ha it seems likely that there could be fans of each of these bands. Whether this is true, reveals Apparatjik (not) here:

– The greatest bands have the greatest fans. It's something we've learned. There are many fans who never find a band that is small enough for them. We're the band. We are here.

About what they think about other so-called "super groups", Apparatjik simply say that they love anything that is super!

We would prefer not to make music than to abandon our strategies.

Our plan was to get together and become world class skiers.

I love that interview!!!

"Originally we were attracted to eachother, but that's passed"... EPIC!!!