Emotional Rollercoaster
Featuring The Broken Assembly
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The Broken Assembly
The Broken Assembly is a collaboration of independent Swedish songwriters Helena Ahlbäck and Lasse Thomasson. It is a collaboration of complementary skills and a shared passion to produce their music without recourse to tradition or formula. When they say it sounds right, it’s finished.
We are not a band!
We don’t like to rehearse, it’s boring. We don’t like band meetings, where everyone must get their say, whether they have something to say or not. We don’t require every song to have drums on them, just because there is a drummer in the band.
Instead, let the perspective be that of the song. What is needed to make it great. Not what the musicians playing it need.
Ahlbäck is a woman of contrast, playing Bach on church organs while being a staunch AC/DC fan, and making money from a diverse array of jobs from cleaner to choreographer. She is the voice of The Broken Assembly where her diversity is once more to the fore, taking on edgy or angelic tones as the song requires.
Sound engineer and self-confessed microphone nut Thomasson, recently also part of the successful Strangers In Wonderland collaboration (with Åsa Girgensohn), brings just about everything to the table apart from singing. A player of guitar, piano, bass and cello he also covers song writing, recording, producing, design and marketing!
We are two independent songwriters who decided help each other. Both of us write songs of love, both of us can talk to ghosts at night. But only one of us can sing, only one can dance, only one has a boring interest in microphones and only one knows the meaning of the word akkzalam…
All in all, a perfect match to help each other to get all that wonderful music get from inside that machine all the way to you.
TRACKS PLAYED IN THIS PRODUCTION
- Emotional
- Come Together
- If I Never
- Miles In The Rain
