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Interview: Traveling with Jeniferever

Mix Grill spoke with Martin Sandström (Guitars, Backing Vocals), who gave us exactly what you need to meet them.
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They come from Uppsala, Sweden and since the Temperature has started to fall there, the four of Jeniferever came to our country with first stop Thessaloniki today in Block 33.

If you don't have your tickets yet, take a walk to Metropolis and Musicland/Tickethouse. They cost only 12 Euros while they'll be 15 on the counter.

Two days later, the ethereal melodies of Jeniferever, not "Jenifer ever" like the song by Smashing Pumpkins, from which they were named, will "sneak in" one of the most classic concert locations of Athens, An Club.

Mix Grill spoke with Martin Sandström (Guitars, Backing Vocals), who gave us exactly what you need to meet them.

Mixgrill (MG): First of all, we would like to thank you in advance for answering our questions! We really enjoy your music, even though it may seem typical to
say that (it's actually real). In our opinion, your music is atmospherical and can create many pictures in our mind. What are the pictures you imagined, when you created the songs of your new album "Spring Tides"?

Martin Sandström: I guess we get inspiration from a lot of things, but nothing specific apart from just playing music together and through that finding what will be eventually be the music you hear.

MG: In your song "From across the sea" you are talking about Emily. Who is
she? She has to do with a real story?

Martin Sandström: Most of our lyrics are written by Kristofer and most of it is based on real things. I personally don´t know who that Emily is, though i know she exists in real life.

MG: We think you give a lot of attention to your lyrics. Why did you decide to
sing in English and not in Swedish?

Martin Sandström: Singing in swedish would mean that only about nine million people in the world (maybe danish, finish and norwegian people too) could understand the lyrics. And since our music isn´t exactly verse chorus verse, that would mean only a very limited amount of people would understand the lyrics of our music. I prefer when bands from any country sing in english so that I
can understand what they sing about.

MG: You like creating songs, which have big duration. Which is the song, with
the biggest duration you have ever made?

Martin Sandström: I think it is For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky from the Iris EP.

Note: This song is 13 minutes in length.

MG: Many people compare your music with Sigur Ros. They prefer to create long tracks too. If you would play with Sigur Ros in a concert, how long do you
believe it would last? :)

Martin Sandström: Yes, many people do compare us to them. I think that´s lame. I mean yes we´re both nordic and all that, and maybe there are some similarities in our music. But I think most of it is just really lazy journalism. We´re a rock band and it don´t really consider them one. Don´t get me wrong, I think they´re a good band but i just don´t see why we have to have
anything to do with them.

MG: We imagine that when you play your songs in concerts, you "travel" with
your music. Do you believe that the audience is following you to your
trips? Which is the reaction of your fans in your shows?

Martin Sandström: Well yes, you could call it a journey maybe. I think shows are a bit like some kind of trip maybe. The reaction is mostly good i guess, but it varies; on a good show people get very into it which is great. We get
really into it no matter what most of the times. Even if it´s quite a small
audience they deserve to get a good show.

MG: If you have the opportunity to choose a film and create a soundtrack for
it, what kind of film would you select? A thriller, an adventure movie?

Martin Sandström: I guess not a thriller, that would be awful i think. Maybe a really sad but beautiful movie about people and their lives set in an interesting
environment.

MG: Where is the Green Medow Island?

Martin Sandström: It´s a place taken from a book by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. The book is called Mio In The Land Of Faraway and doesn't directly have a connection to the lyrics I wrote for it, even though there are some things that I could see in it that fits to what I was trying to express in the
lyrics. But that´s for each listener to interpret.

MG: You were formed in 1996. During all these years, you released many EPs and two albums. Do you believe in small albums like EPs or you weren't ready
to release a full album before 2006?

Martin Sandström: The band was initially formed back then yes, but this line- up of the band has been going since 2003 and i think it´s fair to say that that´s when this band started, seeing what the music sounded like before that and
after. I personally like ep´s quite a lot, especially with bands that tend
to make lenghty tracks with lots of layers and parts to get into.

MG: Can you imagine your music after 10 years?

Martin Sandström: If you mean if we´re still going to be around i´d say that´sa long time from now, but also we´ve been the same people for six years now and were quite hard working so nothing can stop us really. haha.

MG: A dream of Jeniferever?

Martin Sandström: I think the vision we have for this is to keep making good music and developing, and at the same time hopefully reaching more people.

MG: What are you listening to at this moment?

Martin Sandström: We listen to loads of different stuff, but personally i´m very into Frightened Rabbit, School Of Seven Bells, Bon Iver, Bat For Lashes and Wilco at the moment. To give you just a few examples.

Happy trails in your "journeys" Martin.