Here you can read about how the new album, "Somewhere in the city" was made and the story how Tobias and Linus – and graphic designer Petter Ringbom – started to make albums together. The artwork of the albums, posters, stickers and t-shirts are beautifully crafted by Petter Ringbom, at Flat Inc, NY. Go to www.flat.com! ----- 2003: It all started when Tobias decided to record a couple of songs in the summer of 2003. Up until now, he had been working as a columnist and a writer for swedish magazines and newspapers along side with touring as a guitarist and pianist with different bands. But his own songs had never been recorded. Child hood friend and well known producer Linus showed up in the house where Tobias had set up the recording equipment. Tobias had planned to play every instrument himself, but Linus asked if he could play the drums on one of the songs. Then the story took of. They recorded four songs in two days. On of them, "Good to see you again" was on of the ten songs on the first album. 2004: For Elisabeth Wherever She Is was produced, played, arranged and basically everything by Tobias Froberg & Linus Larsson. The record label was Silence Records. It was released in 2004, and was nominated for album of the year at the swedish indie grammies. 2006: Tobias and Linus have finished their second album, called "Somewhere in the city". – We must have spend over 100 days in the recording studio, making ”Somewhere in the city”, claims Tobias. There are songs on the album that we worked with for over one and a half years. It´s insane when I think of it, since we´re certainly not after some kind of Toto-perfection. But we are really, really pleased with the result. Our goal was not to make just another singer songerwriter-album, we had other plans. And I believe we got it... The album is produced, recorded and mixed by Linus Larsson and Tobias (Linus is well known in Scandinavia for producing, mixing or recording bands and artists like Mercury Rev & Nicolai Dunger, Ed Harcourt, swedish popband The Concretes, Anna Ternheim and many more). On this album, Linus and Tobias plays all the instruments themselves, exept from guest appearances from two of their good friends, Teitur and Ane Brun. ----- The songs on "Somewhere in the city", with comments from Tobias: When the night turns cold – It´s actually two songs that I compressed into one. We wanted the middle section, or the bridge, to sound completely different from the rest of the song, like the odd part in Simon and Garfunkel´s ”You don´t know where your interests lies” from the Bookends-sessions. Magnus Henriksson (Existensminimum) came to my apartment and recorded the bongos. He asked me how fast he should play. I think I told him: play as fast as you can. And so he did. The idea for using bongos came from Nina Simones version of "My way". Love and misery, a duet with Ane Brun. – I planned to sing the other vocal vocal part myself. But when I played the song to Ane, she loved it and wanted to sing on it. I´m so glad she did. When she enters, the song really takes off. She has one of the most beautiful voices in the world, if you ask me. We recorded it in my apartment. This song is one of ten on And Brun´s beautiful Duets-album. God´s highway – I wrote that song in a guitar store, trying an old guitar. Immediately I heard two lead-vocals, the vocal arrangements came to me in that store. It´s very much a tribute to Paul Simon. For Elisabeth wherever you are, featuring Teitur. – On my first album, "For Elisabeth wherever she is", almost every song is about this Elisabeth so I just had to make a sequel. I love the way Teitur is singing the backing vocals, and the way he plays the piano. Me and Linus worked with this song for one and a half year, so you could really say it was a real bitch. The only thing left from the original mix, that we recorded in an old house, is Linus´ handclaps in the chorus, and our Mini Moogs. The features of a human face – Recorded live under open air in the middle of a hot day in July. Me, Linus and two acoustic guitars. If you listen carefully, you can hear birds, crickets, trees in the wind and an aeroplane. Somewhere in the city – I co-wrote this song with Teitur. We began writing it in Stockholm, carried on in Aberdeen and finished it in London. Me and Linus recorded it after two bottles of red wine in the house where he grew up. To this day, I don´t have a clue how I came up with that guitar-riff, and how I could play it that way, in that condition. It´s pretty complex, actually. What a day – A happy song. We recorded the bass and guitar, together with the drums, in the key of A, but slowed it down to G by reducing the speed of the tapemachine. Oh my love (here she comes again) – Recorded in my sofa just one week before we mastered the album. Overdubbed with a bunch of old keyboards, including my old Mini Moog. Someone – Suddenly, there was a Vibraphone in the recording studio. Me and Linus had to try it, so the very first time we played this instrument, we recorded a four hand take. Then we overdubbed it. Thank you – I wrote it the morning after a midsummer party, while walking around in a beautiful city early in the morning. Recorded just after Somewhere in the city. Linus hurt his back while showing me his old playgrund from his childhood, and so he had to lay down on a mattress while playing one of the acoustic guitars. Forever is just a word in a lovesong – Recorded live with Linus behind the drums and myself at the piano in Studio Hogalid, Hornstull in Stockholm. We miked the piano through an old Vox amplifier. That´s where the vibrato comes from. It´s a good song to close this album with. You can almost see the credits rolling in front of you, like a movie.