Music

The album Heaven Is Open Today by the band In Carbon Dimonds Grow consists of 15 songs written by Kamilla Hygum Jakobsen and put into music by Lars Hartvig Lindeborgh and Hannibal Gustafsson.

The name of the band refers to a sentence in the song “I Am Made of Clay”, which covers many of the themes in the book. Inside all of us a beautiful diamond grows, if it is nurtured with love. The songs, poetry and illustrations try to embrace this credo covering themes like loneliness, sorrow, despair, death, loss, destruction, epiphany, empathy, understanding, solicitude, happiness, forgiveness, tenderness, unconditional love and devotion, but also the necessity of drawing boundaries and lines.

Despite the serious themes, the book and music have an easiness and happy energy playing and flirting voluptuously with a variety of genres and styles.

You can download the music from Itunes and Spotify. LINK ITUNES/SPOTIFY

You can also buy the CD and the illuminated book from the bookshops, and if you write to kamilla@hverdagspoesi.dk

Here is a video of the song I Am Made of Clay. The video is made by Cathrine Marchen Asmussen with illustrations by Carl Quist-Møller. LINK VIDEO

Heaven Is Open Today by the band In Carbon Diamonds Grow

Kamilla Hygum Jakobsen: Music, lyrics and vocals

Lars Hartvig Lindeborgh: Music arrangement, orchestration, producing, mix, saxophone, flute and clarinet

Hannibal Gustafsson: Music arrangement, producing, mix and guitars

Carl Quist-Møller: Drums

The song Hush: Kristoffer Sjelberg: Drums; Rune Olesen: percussion; Assi Roar: contrabass; Hugh Steinmetz: trumpet and flygelhorn

Booking

You can book the band In Carbon Diamonds Grow, if you write to kamilla@hverdagspoesi.dk

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Download Music

Our music distributor is Ditto Music in the U.K. They have distributed our album to the stores Itunes, Amazon, emusic, Spotify, Google Play, 7digital, Deezer, JB Hifi, Medianet, Rdio, Shazam and 24 7 Entertainment where you can preview, download and stream the album Heaven Is Open Today.

Listen to five songs on Karrierrekanonen

Themes

The name of the band refers to a line in the song ‘I Am Made of Clay’. Inside all of us, a beautiful diamond will grow, if nurtured by love. The songs, poetry and illustrations try to embrace this credo covering themes like loneliness, sorrow, despair, death, loss, epiphany, empathy, solicitude, happiness, forgiveness, tenderness, unconditional love and devotion, but also the necessity of setting boundaries.

A Voluptuous Flirt with Genres & Styles

Despite the serious themes, the book and music have a sense of ease and happy energy playing and flirting voluptuously with a variety of genres and styles.

One genre definition could be “Alternative”, a closer genre definition could be “Scandinavian Melodic Melancholic Catchy”.

We feel a connection to contemporary folk and the Scandinavian melancholic melodic artists like Ane Brun, Rebekka Karijord, Agnes Obel and Moddi with a focus on tender intimate vocals and melodic tunes when we use acoustic instruments guitar, mandolin, saxophone, flute, clarinet and percussion.

The acustic instruments and intimate vocals also have roots in an inspiration from the drama and passion of the Tango and the tenderness, honesty and sense of ease of the Bossa Nova (Astrude Gilberto).

However, there is also a strong inspiration from the sixties and seventies folk rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock and funk rock (Bowie, Pink Floyd, Paul Dylan, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and the Animals) with reverb- and surf guitars, guitar riffs and a strong bass.

The psychedelic rock inspiration also shows in the lyrics, using a lot of almost surreal poetic metaphors and small self-contained imaginative narratives in the soft ballads, the rock ballads and the pop ballads with catchy refrains.