Post by @mosgaard@uddannelse.social

Releasing my old debut album on Bandcamp (and Faircamp), has really send me down memorylane. I had a lot of energy for experimenting in those years, which also meant trouble with stress several times, but I'm still grateful, that I took the chance and made a product I have always been extremely proud of.

So it feels right to share this story!

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Morten Mosgaard

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social 4 hr. ago

I borrowed 100.000 kr. (that's around 14.000 euro), booked the musicians, the recording studio, the engineer/mixer, the designers and prepared my songs for the session.

The whole plan was to do it "jazz-style", we would rehearse on day 1, record on day 2 and mix on day 3. This was live recording and mixing on a HUGE Neve Desk with all the outboard gear you could dream of.

I also created a record label and had a quite expensive visual identity created by the designers.

Morten Mosgaard

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social 3 hr. ago

(Sorry for the interruption, I needed to play balloon dance with my son)

I still can't describe what actually happened in this period, where everything went down and I used 100.000 kr. in heart beat. So many things could have gone wrong, but everything just went surprisingly well.

I really believed in myself, and I had a community of people really trusting me. My musicians, the engineer, the designers etc... Everyone was enthusiastic and happy to be part of it.

Morten Mosgaard

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social 3 hr. ago

I ordered 1000 cd's! The cover was unique (so was the designers), so I payed a ton of money for a stamping die, so the cover could curve the cool way.

And when the album was ready...

... I finished my studies, got a job as a music teacher on a rural 1-year bording school for high-school'ers (Efterskole) and totally lost interest in all the branding, marketing, reviews etc...

That's #ADHD in it's finest form.

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Morten Mosgaard

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social 3 hr. ago

Somehow I managed to earn back the money, partly by selling a lot of albums to danish libraries and the students of the boarding schools, who all seemed to think it was peak having a teacher who released his own album.

I toured a little with my band, made a couple of songwriter appearances and moved on.

Morten Mosgaard

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social 3 hr. ago

This is such a tough story to look back on, when you get an ADHD diagnose. It's just one of many projects which I invested a lot of time, energy and money in, to abandon it when I was supposed to benefit from the effort.

My jazz combo Gruppen i Boksen, was once offered to have a complete live recording release funded by local investors. We never managed to find a date to do the recording.

But I'm not complaining, I take what-ever I can from each project.

Morten Mosgaard

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social 3 hr. ago

- The library review, that made 150 libraries by my album
- The one single review I managed to get, that got me on a "10 best jazz albums of 2010"-list and the reviewer later called the album "the most overlooked jazz-gem of the year"
- All the students of mine, who wanted to listen to the music and talk to me about releasing music.

Thanks for joining my TED talk! And feel free to give my old album a listen:

Bandcamp: https://mortenmosgaard.bandcamp.com/album/morten-mosgaards-orkester

Faircamp: https://pladeselskab.jaevn.dk/morten-mosgaards-orkester/

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DANISH I 2010 udgav sanger og sangskriver Morten Mosgaard sin debutplade "Morten Mosgaards Orkester". Udgivelsen kom på Jazznyts liste over de 10 bedste danske jazzudgivelser i 2010 og blev senere omtalt som "Årets oversete jazzgenialitet". Sangene er personlige fortællinger om en energisk sjæls forsøg på at finde ro, skrevet i en periode hvor Mosgaard gik fra håbefuld talent i Herning til næsten færdiguddannet konservatoriestuderende i Aalborg. På albummet forener Mosgaard sin mangeårige fascination for sangskrivning med sin jazzerfaring. Han lader en klassisk klaverjazztrio danne baggrund for de genremæssigt mangfoldige sange, der trækker på alt fra pop og folk til rock, blues og ballade. Pladen blev indspillet i det nu hedengangne Bohus Sound Recording Studios udenfor Göteborg, med den anerkendte svenske producer Åke Linton ved pulten – blandt andet kendt for sit arbejde med Esbjörn Svensson Trio. ENGLISH In 2010 , Danish singer-songwriter Morten Mosgaard released his debut album "Morten Mosgaards Orkester". The release was named one of the 10 best jazz albums in 2010, by the acclaimed Danish jazz blog Jazznyt. The songs of the album are the very personal tale of an energetic soul trying to find peace and calm, written in a period of Mosgaard's life, where he went from being a hopeful talent in his suburban hometown to an artist soon to be educated from the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg, Denmark. The music unites Mosgaard's long-time fascination with the singer-songwriter tradition meeting a jazz approach to playing and arranging. A jazz piano trio supports the young singer-songwriter, while connecting to a wide variety of styles like pop, folk, rock, blues and ballads. The album was recorded in Bohus Sound Studios in Göteborg by Swedish producer and sound engineer Åke Linton (Esbjörn Svensson Trio).