Peder
Look at the credits and something is odd ... the man whose name is on the record does not sing it and did not write the words ... Peder composed and produced it, Rasmus Olsen wrote the lyric, and a Danish singer named Signe Marie Schmidt-Jacobsen stepped up to the microphone ... Three people to make one voice in the daylight, and the one whose name is on the cover is the one you never hear ...
That is how a producer works when he works like a film director ... Peder is Danish, a DJ and a player of many instruments, and Dirt & Gold, from April 2010, was his second record under his own name ... He filled it with guests ... Oh Land, Claus Hempler, and Signe Marie, each given a song the way a director gives an actor a scene ... He said he wanted to experiment on it, to make something "both noisier and quieter, with many tempi, many singers, and many musicians" ... He said everything he was listening to at the time went straight onto the record, and he named Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Ray Charles ...
Daylight is the quiet end of that ... The record around it is full of surf guitar and hip-hop breaks and an organ that a reviewer called a Dracula organ ... this one is the morning after all of that ... a woman's voice, a lyric by a third person, and the producer standing back, out of frame ...
The measure of it is the casting ... a Copenhagen producer, a hired poet, a borrowed singer, on a small label called Fake Diamond ... and out of that arrangement, which sounds like a committee, comes the one song on the record with nobody's ego in it ...