Hmm... äkktive cärbön is completing it's tenth round around the Sun one of these days. And today is the present for the big day. As today, again, Life proved that äkktive cärbön isn't dead (as I though it was in the last couple of weeks).

I'm working on the last couple of tracks for the first real äkktive cärbön LP, Sunshine Man And The Wind Of Changes, and I seem to possess the inspiration for the next LP (It also has a name already). Dead certain, the inspiration will come and go, like it always does - but it's nice not only to be on the way, but feeling like it too. Sometimes I was missing that.

Now ten years, for what? Not for SMATWOC, certainly (the idea is from mid-2006). However, I kept stuff personal, all the time. A lot of attempts had turned out to be a no-go, and very few do I really regret (and none I can name... so that's how very few) - also very few lived to see the light of day in a form or another, and although I'm certainly not happy with all of them from a technical standpoint, I'm at least happy enough with what they are spiritually.

Lyrics... I always used to struggle with lyrics. There's only one of my songs I've written lyrics from, and that's a very un-serious piece (it'll be on the LP). The rest, well -- I'm still insisting on writing lyrics, not at all costs, for some of them. Others will do nicely without words as those in this ten years' timespan. They have emotions, memories embedded in them all the same.

As for SMATWOC, nothing you've already heard will be the same on the album. Not exactly the same, that's for sure. More than that I'm not telling.=) (One piece of info: there is a song with the same name as the album.)

It's coming!