DISCOGRAPHY

It took us 10 days to complete our second album. We had a great time during these days and we managed to create the album we would have bought ourselves. Most of the takes are live takes with the whole band. In the booklet you can read exactly what is recorded live and what is not. Thanks again to Christoffer Lundquist who pushed us into doing our best and breaking limits.

Martinique and Helena have written down some comments for each song:

01. Une Histoire (Martinique) 
Martinique's comment:
I wrote the intro on our piano and the rest followed. The strings on the recording opened up the song in a great way.

02. In The Sand (Helena)  
Helena's comment:
This is about the love you can feel for a friend. And how hard it is to say that you don´t feel the same way anymore. About being the bad person who creates sadness because you really must. You must be tough sometimes to be able to develop. I just wanted to put my head in the sand until the worst storm would be over. Like an ostrich!

03. Spiderweb Suit (Helena)  
Helena's comment:
We thought this was a song with a lot of instruments so it took us eight hours to forget about that and change it into this minimalistic yet powerful version. It was recorded live and in the end we were very tired but we felt right away that this take was the magic one. I want to sing as good as Cyndi Lauper but someone said it sounds like young Michael Jackson, now that is a fine compliment! I want to make a suit for my love to protect him from all that is bad, sometimes even from myself. When I get paralyzed from problems in my life and my family, I get so difficult to handle. I just wish that he will be brave and I also want to save him from accidents, confusion, cold and violence. I took sewing classes, but still I do not know how to make this kind of suit. Maybe if I was a witch I could get my hands on some dew and a piece of the rainbow!? I suppose I just have to learn that I can not save him from hard things, I need to trust that he does it himself.

04. Fat (Martinique)    
Martinique's comment:
One sunny morning in 2002 i wrote this song. 22 years old. It was too good to leave behind.

05. Fish Tale (Helena)    
Helena's comment:
This song was written in year 2000. It is about my younger sister Sofia who had a big problem with her eczema. When she went to the Mediterranean she would get better, swimming in the sea and swallowing the sunbeams. Her wounds would heal. I thought maybe she was turning into a mermaid, and when she did she would be able to live life happily. In the same time I got sad because how could I see her then, when she would live so far away? I thought I would have to visit her in the ocean, as she was jumping and diving into the waves, like a dark silhouette in the horizon.

06. Baby Can't Stop (Martinique)    
Martinique's comment:
The song is written on our piano. It had a tango-feel which we blended with some power drums and 8ees beats. I wanted it to sound a little like the song "Words don´t come easy", a great tune.

07. Laisse Les Anges Te Proteger (Helena)    
Helena's comment:
I have sung in a choir since I was seven years and I miss it! Standing in the middle of 30 pure girls´ voices, a unit where nobody is a soloist. We were all as important as one key on the piano, everyone was heading for the same goal. I will not experience it again because when you become a woman your voice isn´t so light anymore. We would sing a little too high up sometimes which I think is very beautiful!

This song is inspired by Alice Tegnér, a lady who wrote songs for kids ( "Sov Du lilla Videung" ) and Benjamin Britten ( "A Ceremony of Carols" ). Sisters, mother, girlfriends and choir friends joined us in the studio one summerday to record this. And I am sure I will write more music for a choir in the future because it was so exciting even though it is not easy to write the notes correctly.

08. Le Mistral (Martinique)    
Martinique's comment:
You walk on the beach in Saint Tropéz and you hear the waves, the sky, the wind and the sand. I remember it from way back when i was little and spend many summers there eating pizza and playing foozball at the foozball table.

09. Chimney Hole (Helena)    
Helena's comment:
We recorded it live, Martinique and I sitting on different sides of the same microphone. The song was a little scary to record because of the difficult rhythms, we are just a pop group after all you know, but it became great I think. I wanted to stop the listener from thinking about what it is and just feel the music. That is why I chose the different rhythms. This song is about longing, it is a bit erotic I think. You know the feeling of butterflies in your stomach and the warmth is spreading? I asked Martinique to sing it since I think the lyrics get even more interesting that way. And I can truly imagine him making friends with a squirrel, because he is always kind to animals. Julianne is a beautiful name, but Martiniques big high-school love was Juliana. Therefor I think the song is a little about falling in love for the first time, and in a way many animals and plants fall in love for the first time every spring I believe. Me too, even though it is the same person every spring :o)

10. Evening Wake, Morning Flake (Martinique)    
Martinique's comment:
Just a happy song that i enjoyed singing.

11. Faires & Elves (Helena)    
Helena's comment:
This is the song I am most proud of on this album. It was exciting for me and very emotional. I never believed in luck before but now I am starting to. Martinique is a dreamer, and I am told I am naive. But sometimes the everyday neutral faces, routines and habits just do not satisfy me. I have to find something else in everyday things to feel happy. For example I do not enjoy asphalt so I have to look for the sparkles in there, sometimes you can see them. I love gravelled roads, they sound and smell wonderful.  And one day I walked home on the sidewalk, listening to The Cure. Why do we not look at those we meet? We are curious but we don´t want to show it. That day I thought that maybe all the people I met were fairies or alves but they just don´t show it. Since the day when I was a child and I saw a little puck outside in the snow, I do believe that there is more than the eye can see.

I also thought about the senile persons I have met ( I worked at a home for old people before ). There was a gardener who was always quiet. Sometimes we found him removing "weeds" from the plastic flowers. In summer, we would sometimes drink afternoon coffee in the garden among flowers in the sun. Then, all of a sudden, he would start laughing very loud and for long! I just find it so beautiful that maybe the heart never forgets what it loves even though the head doesn´t remember. That showed me that the most important things in life can be enjoyed no matter how senile you are.

Gunhild played the harp on this recording and it was fantastic for me! She was very pregnant and very positive, and at first she made some wonderful sounds. I thought, this must be as beautiful as it can get. But then she did another thing with the harp and it was even better. My chest started hurting and I got very moved by her playing so.

12. Angel On The Ground (Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
One day i drove my mothers car with my mother in the passenger seat. I passed a car in a stupid way and nearly smashed into a lorry. It could all have ended right there but it didn´t.
There was a day when I almost lost the love of my life. We thought that we had gone in different direction. It could all have ended right there but it didn´t.
The song was originally much longer including a second verse but we liked this short version.

Track list

• 01. Une Histoire
• 02. In the sand
• 03. Spiderweb Suit
• 04. Fat
• 05. Fish Tale

Our latest single available for download.

01. Spiderweb Suit (Helena)

02. Une Histoire (Martinique)

Available for download.

01. In the sand (Helena)

Available for download.

01. Une Histoire (Martinique)

02. Une Histoire Remix (Martinique, remixed by: JC)

Sandy Mouche went to Christoffer Lundquist in Vollsjo to record their debut album. I took place between late summer 2003 and spring 2004. 15 songs were recorded (two of those is only available on the Japan-version). We loved to be in the studio with Christoffer and are very pleased with the album. It's a warm sound (only analog equipment) and Christoffer helped us doing the best we could. Thanks!

Martinique and Helena have written down some comments for each song:

01. Sandy Mouche (Helena, Martinique)
Helena's comment:
I had the verse in my notebook and then Martinique just spat out the chorus! It became a sweet popsong! It is a manual of how to spend one of all the rainy days in a great way.

02. Cloette (Helena, Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
Cloette's best friend is in love with her but she doesn't know it yet.

03. Cherry Pie (Helena)
Helena's Comment:
I'd do anything to travel into the past. Just to visit one day of every year of Martinique's life since he was born! Unfortunately, I do not know how to. But if I was the moon, I could have touched his face with my light through all times, and I would see him as a child- he must have been a wonderful one!

04. Executioner (Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
For a long time I had a big stone in my chest. A girl that I adore helped me throw it away and Executioner was born. This was the last song written to the WLD album.

05. White lucky dragon (Helena)
Helena's comment:
I made this one a few weeks before I was married, in the summer of 2003. My husband-to-be had a big stone in his heart that I didn't know of. It was so heavy it almost tipped us over. But love conquers all you know! And we smashed the stone between us until it cracked into dust, and so far no new stones have come.

06. Matador (Helena, Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
We don't like bullfighting.

07. Le rat blanc (Helena, Martinique)
Helena's comment:
Martinique and I went into a pet shop and the birds were screaming, it sounded like crying. Maybe because there wasn't enough space in the cages, and maybe they felt homesick. A couple bought a rat, but they didn't like the white one.

08. Formule 1 (Helena)
Helena's comment:
Sometimes Martinique worked the night shift at the printing press, where he's been the last three years. He made milk- and juice cartons. His working mates joked and said that he wasn't always present even though his body was there- one of the things I imagine him doing is dreaming about the Formel 1 cars he wishes to drive, instead of the machine. In the chorus we find him walking home at dawn. He wears his new Formel 1 shoes, they are red like real love. All the birds sing a heavenly song in the silent air around him.

09. Neons (Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
I wanted to write a song with a groove so first I came up with the rhythm guitar and the rest just followed.

10. C'est pas juste (Helena, Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
One of the early sandy songs. It makes me dance every time.

11. A Year (Helena, Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
I wrote it 3 years ago on a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer. This was the song I made Per and Helena listen to during a trip to Greece. It became the first Sandy Mouche song and it's about living like there was no tomorrow.

12. Papillon (Helena, Martinique)
Helena's comment:
This is about how I try to ignore my dad's worried face- he is afraid I won't survive in this tough world, as a musician. I got my passion for music through my mum, but my stubbornness comes from him- and it's an extremely tough combination to break! Maybe he just doesn't know me? Because if he did, he wouldn't waste so much time trying to stop me.

13. Notes & Bills (Helena, Martinique)
Helena's comment:
This song was born after a drive when I heard a r'n'b tune on the radio. Martinique wrote the cosy bridge.
It is often like that, I know I want to sing and record but there is a big gloomy pile of everyday musts and useless words between me and the future dream. I just want to ignore the pile but it's hard. This song helps me sink into the dark red velvet sofa which is the gravelled road to the Sandy Mouche village.

Japan-version of the White Lucky Dragon album also includes the songs:

14. Mother (Helena, Martinique)
Helena's comment:
Martinique made the chorus and I made the verse.
My mother has always supported me with a firm hand. She never overprotected me, she always trusted me. And if I did wrong, she just showed me how to make it right again! I love her and I am happy that she knows how to accept it.

15. New York (Helena, Martinique)
Martinique's comment:
Danyal fell in love with a girl. The only problem was that she lived in Paris and he in Malmö.

Track list

• 01. Sandy Mouche
• 02. Cloette
• 03. Cherry Pie
• 05. White Lucky Dragon
• 06. Matador
• 07. Le rat blanc
• 08. Formule 1
• 11. A Year
• 12. Papillon
• 13. Notes & Bills
• 14. Mother

One of our closest friends Danyal Taylan recorded this Ep with us in World Studios in Malmö. Is was a great feeling in the studio and we felt that this was something really good. This was the first Sandy Mouche recording in a proffessional studio. Cherry Pie was recorded in Per´s bedroom. We felt it was hard to beat the feeling that we had achieved there.

01. Matador (Martinique)

02. Cherry Pie (Helena)

03. C´est Pas Juste (Martinique)

04. Mother (Helena, Martinique)

05. Notes & Bills (Helena)