Montt Mardié
Encyclopedia
Montt Mardié is a Swedish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
and composer
. As of May 2009, Montt Mardié has released three full length albums as well as various singles on the Swedish record label Hybris
. He signed to the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement, as well as the UK label Ruffa Lane in 2007. May 2009 saw the release of his first UK release, Introducing...the Best Of
. His first released studio album was Drama
in 2005.
, Sweden
. He enjoys "movies from the fifties, music from the sixties and comic books from the seventies". Taken from the About Me section of his blog http://www.monttmardie.blogspot.com/, "While the other kids were searching for guns and ammo, I read the bible. I loved boats and rollercoasters. On the day I turned eight my mom bought me a guitar. I kept it in a closet and only took it out when I was alone." Montt has become increasingly popular in his native Sweden, as well as in many other European countries.
His favorite Beatle is John Lennon
His debut release was the Single
/EP
Highschool Drama, released on October 14, 2005. This was shortly followed by his debut full-length album Drama
, released on October 7, 2005. One single developed from Drama, New York, released on April 20, 2006. He then released an EP entitled Science on May 18, 2006.
Mardié would later reuse some of the tracks from Science for his second full-length album, Clocks/Pretender
, released on April 18, 2007. Clocks/Pretender was a double album, one disc containing Montt Mardié tracks and the other collaborations with other musicians.
Mardié announced he was working on a new album in early 2008. In the same blog post, Mardié explained he was in the middle of re-recording old songs for his first UK release. He revealed the title "Introducing... the best of Montt Mardié" to be official, joking that if he had gotten his way it would have been called "Death". Introducing... the best of Montt Mardié was released in May 2009 to positive reviews. The albums first single Set Sail Tomorrow was released in mid-2008, going straight to the NME-radio A-list. The single was put on the H&M instore radio from July 2 for a month, going out to 1,200 stores across 23 countries. The single also helped Mardié become Rookie Of The Week on BBC 6music, and he was placed on the "Out in the City" top of the hot list.
Mardié's third Swedish album was finally released in April 2009. Skaizerkite
unveiled twelve new tracks and introduced a cleaner and larger sound to Mardié's distinct pop-style, featuring collaborations with Hanna Lovisa and Andreas Mattsson (whom he had previously worked with on Clocks/Pretender).
On May 15, 2009 he uploaded the track We Are All The Pirate Bay onto The Pirate Bay
tracker specifying "It's free and nobody will ever have to pay for it". This came after the provisional outcome of The Pirate Bay trial
. The track was released using the Creative Commons
license the song was up freely to be remixed and re-appropriated and many interpretations was made by fans and other artists such as Shorthand Phonetics
which included a radically different version on their Creative Commons release "Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value
".
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
. As of May 2009, Montt Mardié has released three full length albums as well as various singles on the Swedish record label Hybris
Hybris (record label)
Founded in 2004, Hybris is an independent record label located in Sweden. The Stockholm department is run by Mattias Lövkvist and John Gadnert and the Malmö department by Kalle Magnusson.-Roster:*Jonathan Johansson*Far & Son*Juvelen*Andreas Mattson...
. He signed to the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement, as well as the UK label Ruffa Lane in 2007. May 2009 saw the release of his first UK release, Introducing...the Best Of
Introducing...the Best Of
Introducing...the Best of is the first compilation album and first UK release from Swedish musician Montt Mardié. The album comprises 2 new tracks, 6 re-recorded tracks from his debut album Drama and nine tracks from Clocks/Pretender....
. His first released studio album was Drama
Drama (Montt Mardié album)
Drama is the debut full length album of Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. It was released on November 7, 2005 by the Swedish record label Hybris. The album is very pop oriented, allowing many different tempos and styles to be placed next to one another...
in 2005.
History
David Pagmar was raised in StockholmStockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. He enjoys "movies from the fifties, music from the sixties and comic books from the seventies". Taken from the About Me section of his blog http://www.monttmardie.blogspot.com/, "While the other kids were searching for guns and ammo, I read the bible. I loved boats and rollercoasters. On the day I turned eight my mom bought me a guitar. I kept it in a closet and only took it out when I was alone." Montt has become increasingly popular in his native Sweden, as well as in many other European countries.
His favorite Beatle is John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
His debut release was the Single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
/EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
Highschool Drama, released on October 14, 2005. This was shortly followed by his debut full-length album Drama
Drama (Montt Mardié album)
Drama is the debut full length album of Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. It was released on November 7, 2005 by the Swedish record label Hybris. The album is very pop oriented, allowing many different tempos and styles to be placed next to one another...
, released on October 7, 2005. One single developed from Drama, New York, released on April 20, 2006. He then released an EP entitled Science on May 18, 2006.
Mardié would later reuse some of the tracks from Science for his second full-length album, Clocks/Pretender
Clocks/Pretender
Clocks/Pretender is the second album from Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. The album contains two discs, the first disc, Clocks, being 10 new tracks by Montt Mardié, and the second, Pretender, being a disc of compilation tracks. Clocks was released on the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement in...
, released on April 18, 2007. Clocks/Pretender was a double album, one disc containing Montt Mardié tracks and the other collaborations with other musicians.
Mardié announced he was working on a new album in early 2008. In the same blog post, Mardié explained he was in the middle of re-recording old songs for his first UK release. He revealed the title "Introducing... the best of Montt Mardié" to be official, joking that if he had gotten his way it would have been called "Death". Introducing... the best of Montt Mardié was released in May 2009 to positive reviews. The albums first single Set Sail Tomorrow was released in mid-2008, going straight to the NME-radio A-list. The single was put on the H&M instore radio from July 2 for a month, going out to 1,200 stores across 23 countries. The single also helped Mardié become Rookie Of The Week on BBC 6music, and he was placed on the "Out in the City" top of the hot list.
Mardié's third Swedish album was finally released in April 2009. Skaizerkite
Skaizerkite
Skaizerkite is the third album from Montt Mardié. The album was made available for pre-order on March 4 and was officially released on April 8.It was received positively in Mardié's homeland of Sweden, garnering significant radio play.-Track listing:...
unveiled twelve new tracks and introduced a cleaner and larger sound to Mardié's distinct pop-style, featuring collaborations with Hanna Lovisa and Andreas Mattsson (whom he had previously worked with on Clocks/Pretender).
On May 15, 2009 he uploaded the track We Are All The Pirate Bay onto The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which hosts magnet links and .torrent files, which allow users to share electronic files, including multimedia, computer games and software via BitTorrent...
tracker specifying "It's free and nobody will ever have to pay for it". This came after the provisional outcome of The Pirate Bay trial
The Pirate Bay trial
The Pirate Bay trial is a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay...
. The track was released using the Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
license the song was up freely to be remixed and re-appropriated and many interpretations was made by fans and other artists such as Shorthand Phonetics
Shorthand Phonetics
Shorthand Phonetics is an indie rock and film score outfit from Bandung, Indonesia which, as of 2010, only comprises Ababil Ashari . The outfit was established on the 13th of April 2004, although conflicting reports claims that the band has been releasing material since 2003...
which included a radically different version on their Creative Commons release "Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value
Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value
Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value is the fourth album release by indie rock outfit Shorthand Phonetics. It is a concept album which represents the first draft of fictional character Hanabishi Hideaki's debut novel entitled "Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating...
".
Studio albums
| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 2005 | Drama Drama (Montt Mardié album) Drama is the debut full length album of Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. It was released on November 7, 2005 by the Swedish record label Hybris. The album is very pop oriented, allowing many different tempos and styles to be placed next to one another...
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| 2007 | Clocks/Pretender Clocks/Pretender Clocks/Pretender is the second album from Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. The album contains two discs, the first disc, Clocks, being 10 new tracks by Montt Mardié, and the second, Pretender, being a disc of compilation tracks. Clocks was released on the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement in... Hybris (record label) Founded in 2004, Hybris is an independent record label located in Sweden. The Stockholm department is run by Mattias Lövkvist and John Gadnert and the Malmö department by Kalle Magnusson.-Roster:*Jonathan Johansson*Far & Son*Juvelen*Andreas Mattson... |
| 2009 | Skaizerkite Skaizerkite Skaizerkite is the third album from Montt Mardié. The album was made available for pre-order on March 4 and was officially released on April 8.It was received positively in Mardié's homeland of Sweden, garnering significant radio play.-Track listing:... Hybris (record label) Founded in 2004, Hybris is an independent record label located in Sweden. The Stockholm department is run by Mattias Lövkvist and John Gadnert and the Malmö department by Kalle Magnusson.-Roster:*Jonathan Johansson*Far & Son*Juvelen*Andreas Mattson... |
Compilation albums
| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Introducing...the Best Of Introducing...the Best Of Introducing...the Best of is the first compilation album and first UK release from Swedish musician Montt Mardié. The album comprises 2 new tracks, 6 re-recorded tracks from his debut album Drama and nine tracks from Clocks/Pretender....
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Singles/EPs
| Year | Single | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Highschool Drama | Drama (Montt Mardié album) Drama is the debut full length album of Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. It was released on November 7, 2005 by the Swedish record label Hybris. The album is very pop oriented, allowing many different tempos and styles to be placed next to one another... |
| 2006 | New York | Drama (Montt Mardié album) Drama is the debut full length album of Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. It was released on November 7, 2005 by the Swedish record label Hybris. The album is very pop oriented, allowing many different tempos and styles to be placed next to one another... |
| 2007 | Science | |
| 2008 | Set Sail Tomorrow | Clocks/Pretender Clocks/Pretender is the second album from Swedish indie pop musician Montt Mardié. The album contains two discs, the first disc, Clocks, being 10 new tracks by Montt Mardié, and the second, Pretender, being a disc of compilation tracks. Clocks was released on the Taiwanese label Silent Agreement in... |
| 2008 | Modesty Blaise | Introducing...the Best Of Introducing...the Best of is the first compilation album and first UK release from Swedish musician Montt Mardié. The album comprises 2 new tracks, 6 re-recorded tracks from his debut album Drama and nine tracks from Clocks/Pretender.... |
| 2008 | Names Not Forgotten | Introducing...the Best Of Introducing...the Best of is the first compilation album and first UK release from Swedish musician Montt Mardié. The album comprises 2 new tracks, 6 re-recorded tracks from his debut album Drama and nine tracks from Clocks/Pretender.... |
| 2009 | We Are All The Pirate Bay | |