Pay-per-frog is the sound of norwegian snow melting in the warm sun, evenings by the beach, red wine and bad jokes, nights in total bliss. Very nice for sleeping. We guarantee good dreams.
Behind the band and the songs:
We are basicly 2 guys from the chilled south coast of Norway, who teamed up at "Trøndertun Rock & Roll Academy" in Trondheim. After many sleepless nights we found out that we needed some music to fall asleep to. What we had didn't work, so we had to enter the school studio, and recorded a 40 minute long chillout jam (Paperfrog on acid part #1), that for 3 weeks served as sleeping medicine and painkiller. Not because it was boring, but because it was relaxed and out of focus.
Later we recorded a 20 minute jam (Paperfrog on acid part #2), then a little more up-tempo with noise-samples and kitchen-ware percussion, but still relaxing.
Big changes came when the entire Rock&Roll Academy had our week-long "Study trip" to Paris in the spring of 2001. We quickly found that the french air, exquisit red whine and presence of the late Jim Morrison did us good. We were inspired. Luckily, Thomas brought a MD recorder and used a crappy headset as a microphone, to record some of the sounds and atmospheres.
Most of this ended up in the delightfully easy "Paris Air", recorded in 1 night just after our return to the school... The song was instantly a hit (if you can call it a hit..) and it was played all the time over our outside stereo, while all the students were chilling in the spring sun, drinking tea and making out.
While on holiday Thomas found an old MW-radio and spent 2 days listening to strange foreign radiochannels, and recording all of it. Some very strange but uplifting words came out of it. listen to "End Of Time". We also returned with our patented kitchen-ware percussion, borrowed from our school kitchen. We're sorry, but Arne smashed all the glasses getting a little too eager.. The song consists of drums, kitchen-ware, KORG MS20, guitars, and radiosamples.
Something few people know is that Arne has a genuine taste for poetry, and wrote a few lines of bizarre poetry about cows and frogs which we ran through a vocoder. Thomas arranged a simple droomloop, and chopped up a few guitarbits from our first jam. The result is "Strange Sunny Days" which simply describes our last months at "Trøndertun Rock&Roll Academy"..
Later came came the more urban hypnotical "Over Easy" which has been selected for 2 compilation CD's and has been played over and over again on our national radio channel P3.
After this Thomas went solo with the project for a while creating more complex electronic songs like "Ruby Red" and "Tambourine" with Marita (currently singing in "Bermuda Triangle")
Another chapter is the quintrilogy of "Amoulette / Eternal Tornment / Horror Visions" which is an ambient work consisting of 5 different pieces knitted together. 32 minutes long it is often found as the last track of our promo-discs.
It starts of with downpitched loop-samples of Paris Air, grasshoppers and gently flows into
sounds of a silent beach, then into long drifting guitarloops, rainstorms and other mysterious sounds.
DJ Friendly; we want to give you each a big hug for playing our songs over and over again. There is surely more to come, and we truly appreciate that you let people have a soft morning with Pay-per-frog in their ears.
