Only once in a while do I retract from long term musical partnerships (and then only temporarily). Usually collaborations are fun and rewarding within a Third Mind framework. Usually they bring out entirely unexpected music that would have been impossible to make on my own. However, I’ve come to notice that it works the other way around too. When I’m totally alone with the audio structure spirits, the communication becomes transcending in a much more brooding and darker way. Sure, I can recognize elements and attractions that are mine and mine alone, but I’m more and more surprised in the solo setting these days. It’s as if the Third Mind has become the norm and in long term musical partnerships one gets the hang of it after a while. The unexpected becomes the expected. Not creatively Kosher. Some years ago, I started making music on my own again. This time without any concept or umbrella (like an “album”). I was just curious to see where the...

After having worked with so much weird music together since 1989 or thereabouts, Thomas Tibert and me decided that it would be fun and challenging to make some real pop music instead of the usual Cotton Ferox-structures. So that’s what we did, from 2009 and onwards. The Mushroom Clouds were now catapulted into an unsuspecting cosmos. Back in 2010, we had amassed a bunch of tracks that were very conventional, yet trippy and perhaps even intelligent. Then we gave some serious thought to the vocal issue. Who could vocalize our vision? The best answer to that question was within reach: Gothenburgian chanteuse extraordinaire Elisabeth Punzi of Whipped Cream-fame drifted into the studio like elegant royalty and, as they so frequently say on TV these days, “delivered”. The first result of this collaboration is the EP called EP I, which is available in the digisphere from September 5th, 2013. Beauty and the Beats: Elisabeth Punzi flanked by Mushroom & Clouds, 2010. There...