35-year-old Gothenburg based musician Victor Furbacken spent his formative years in a Parisian suburb, but went to high school in the southern region of Skåne, majoring in music and fully absorbing himself into the world of jazz. An acclaimed bass player in Sweden, Furbacken played in a number of constellations before delving into songwriting and finding his own voice with the release of the excellent four-track debut EP 'In the Rain' in the fall of 2015.
On the beautiful new single "Somebody Help" the listener is taken along on a 5:14 long yet all too brief otherworldly musical road trip that is perfectly complemented by the stellar video, co-directed by Furbacken and Nils Dahl.
I close with a statement by the artist himself:
I was always intrigued by language, storytelling and poetry since an early age, and I attribute it mainly to French schooling which presented me with a lot of the classics in their tradition. I was lucky in that I had many enthusiastic and good teachers
who saw my curiosity and really did 'beat' this interest into me, which I am
deeply thankful for today. English isn´t my mother tongue but it's actually
been a constant in my life since I met the language through music early on and
it did not leave me when I relocated. This is why I've turned to English
in my writing so far. Early memories of school were encounters with imagery and
stories that really caught my attention. I loved many styles but my writing is
probably quite influenced by French Symbolists like Rimbaud, Baudelaire,
Verlaine but also by English poets like Blake, Elliott, Poe or even Joyce, who
I believe all share a common fascination for darkness, life and death, love,
absurdity and humor.
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