♪ Going back... ♪ - Hey, my name is Lasse Brask, and I am with Brask. - Hey, my name is Thomas, and I am with Brask. - Hello my name is Mads, and I'm with Brask. - Hello, welcome to Dynaudio Unheard. My name is Christopher, and I am your host. Today we've started the Dynaudio Unheard Mobile Studio, and the first artist to play in there are Brask. Hello guys, welcome, thanks for joining me. - Thank you! - Thank you for having us. - No problem. So, you are the very first people to actually go into the studio and have a go at it, what did it feel like? - Well, it was a great feeling. This brand new studio Dynaudio made. I didn't hear about it before today that there was something like this, but when I came in, it was cozy, it was good, it was a great feeling standing in there. - Yeah, and working with a... An amazing producer like Ashley Shepard that we flew in from the US, what was that experience like? - That was a really good experience, nice guy. Just guiding us through the process, because it's all new. We don't know where we have to stand, where do we have to plug in our guitars, so he was very good at guiding us. He was like, "Hey guys, so I am Ashley, and you're gonna do this, this, and this, and let's rock and roll". - Lets rock and roll, and I guess it's I saw you laughing a little bit. You don't know where to plug your spare, your guitar, but I mean, it's a brand new experience for us as well. It's the very first time, and it seemed like everything worked perfectly, and you got to record a couple of your tracks in there? - Mm-hm. - Any specific numbers or songs that you played? - Yeah, we played two songs, and one of them is kinda special to us. - Yeah. - The one called "Tell Me". Actually, "Tell Me" was written three days ago. At our hometown, Randers, we play at the Jam, where we meet, and then we were playing all these cover songs and sometimes you have this spark, where, just, OK, I want to do something that's different. So, I just started playing my guitar, finding some chords, and OK, OK, I do this, and then I look at Mads, I look at Thomas, and just started playing. - Then we actually jammed. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And that fucker just makes up the lyrics as he goes along. - And I just had to shoot from the hip. - Yeah. - What I was seeing, what I was feeling, what's going on in my personal life. All these things that you go with all day. - Yeah. - And just... - But where do you, you're talking about your personal life now, where do you find the inspiration to come up with a new track? Well, a lot of it depends on the musicians that I play with. In case these two great guys, because they're so inspiring to play with! When Thomas do this, OK, OK. So, if you do this, I do this, and then he thinks, "What are they doing?" And then I have to do something. So, it's like we are in sync, just playing with things and learning from each other. - And, I mean, all of this is pretty new. You learned about Dynaudio Unheard today, and one of the tracks you made, you created that three days ago? - Yeah. - That's gone really quickly, then. - Really, really written then, because we have been out playing for three days now. - Yeah. - It's great. And then we came home 6AM this morning. - Speak for yourself, I came home at 10AM. - Sorry. - And then, Thomas called me and said, "Do you want to play today?" Sure, where? "At Smukfest." - Yeah, sign me up. - OK, well let's go! What do we have to do, where do we have to play? And four hours ago we didn't know we would be here. So, it's just very spontaneous. - Yeah, cool. I want to go back a little... - Yeah. - To the song that we were talking about, "Tell Me." - Yeah. - So, to me, I'm not a musician at all, so one of the things that, when I hear good music on the radio, or hear about a new track, I always wondered, when do you actually know that you have a good song? - Well, I know I have a good song, - It just feels right. - Yeah, when it feels right, and, you know, the arms, the hair on my arms is raising. - Yeah, standing up. - And I close my eyes, and just, OK, there's some kind of flow that speaks to me. That's when it feels right. - You're not looking for any sort of specific sensation or feeling, it just comes to you naturally? - It comes all natural. - Yeah. - Just playing around, and then you find maybe a melody that you like. OK, and then you keep working on that. And sometimes, you fail. - Yeah, yeah, sure. - Yeah, yeah. But sometimes, it's just right at the first time. So, that's when you know it's right, because, OK, this didn't work, so it don't got the flow, it don't speak to me. - But sometimes, again, you make a song, specifically, the three of us. You start doing, oh, yeah. You start doing something, and then Thomas will fill in on the drums. Alright, we got something good here. - Even though it's something we tried before that failed, but then we try something new, and then, all of a sudden it just clicks and you just know when it's there. - And I mean, you probably have to spend a lot of hours in this, in, you know, your practice room just figuring out, playing around. "Ah, this sounds cool now." "What if you do like this?" - Well, I know you do it a lot. You have a guitar in every single fucking room in your apartment, and so do I. So, you just play every time you got a spare five minutes. And then sometimes something comes along, and thank God for technology, so you can just record it on your phone so you never forget it. - Yeah. - Can I go a little bit back to the inspiration thing? I'll go into this also. When we have been playing for the weekend, and you come to Sunday, and, you know, "Oh, you're tired." I have this, I go to one of the places that we play, where I have the keys, and it's closed. It's just me, and so I lock myself in. In the bar, there is an old, upright piano built in. And then I go up at night, and I sit there playing. And then I think about all the things that happened this weekend in the tour van. - Yeah. - Or if I have my girlfriend with me on tour, and she was just very nice. - That must be, I mean, just a really special moment for you. - Yeah. - Having the option of going down there, sitting at a piano, and expressing yourself. - Yeah, because this room that I am in, this is where a lot of my music was made for me. - Yeah. - Where I had a lot of great memories. So, I can look around this room, OK, this is where I wrote this song - Yeah. - That night with Thomas or Mads. So, it's also the environment that you're in that gives a lot of inspiration. - And, just to me, you're spending so much time here, right? You have all of the memories all across, that must be so inspiring, because you can tap into old emotions as well, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can. In studios, sometimes you just phase away, and just like... Makes a story of why you're playing in your head. - Most of a song, I am a guitarist, but I write my songs on the piano, because it's just easier to make a story in your head. Since, you know, since I just got a little tear, you know. - So, yeah, it touches you in a lot of different ways. - Yeah. So, before I let you go, you gotta enjoy the rest of KærligHeden - Yeah. - Here at Smukfest for the rest of the day, I hope. But before I let you go, guys, you've been doing music for a while now and I'm hoping that, on the other side of this, on the other side of the camera, we have some aspiring artists that want to come out and really try and break through with their music. So, if we were to give them some advice, you know, before you start your music career, what would your best advice to these aspiring artists be? - I would say you need to have a lot of fun. - Yeah. - You need to find the kind of musician you are. You have to have your emotions intact. You have to be true to yourself as an artist, and just keep on working. You'll have a lot of ideas. Some are bad, some are good, and some are just plain fun. - Yeah. - And number two would be that you can write a song on your own, but it is the teamwork that makes it work. So, when you're sitting home as an aspiring new artist, when you have something you think that's good, show it to someone. - Yeah. - And let them also give their take on it. - Yeah, contribute, right? - Yeah. Yeah, contribute, yeah. - And? - Yeah. - And just be yourself all the way through. Don't compromise with what you want to do. Take us, for instance. Look at these two and then me. I'm a heavy head. But still, we mix well, and got a unique sound because my bass sound and way of playing, directly from heavy. - Yeah, so different, so different. - But it works, so be yourself all the way through. Don't compromise. - I think that's perfect, and I think we should end on that. - Actually, I have one more. - Yeah! - If I can. - Sure! - Yeah! - And never say no. If anyone's got an idea, - I mean. - Go with it. Maybe it's good. Most of the time, it's pretty bad, you don't like it, but maybe that one idea will be the big one. And maybe you'll miss it if you say no. Always try. Maybe you'll learn something, maybe it'll be cool. So, just try. Try and try. - And, I mean, if you had said no four hours ago, you wouldn't have been here, right? - Exactly. - Yeah, exactly. - So, with that said, thank you so much guys for joining us. - Thank you for having us. - Yeah, sure. - It was a pleasure. - And stay tuned, in an hour, we'll have our next guests, Lillevangen, who will talk to you about their music. They are hip-hop musicians. They're going to play over at the recording studio, so stay tuned, and thank you for joining us. ♪ Tell me, tell me, what's the cost? ♪ ♪ Tell me, tell me, what's the fuss? ♪