"Kites" will be released globally as a digital download and streaming maxi-single in no less than 15 different versions with a total playing time of over 77 minutes, a new Guinness Book of World Records for a single release! Featured remixers on the "Kites" release include Dada Life, SoundFactory, Adam Rickfors, Holter/Erixson, Ambience, Freakchild, and Håkan Lidbo among others. A second single or EP is planned for an August release to be followed by a Gravitonas debut album in September 2010.
Andreas Öhrn rose to fame as the founder and front figure of Swedish Amateurs, Sweden's leading underground punk rock band. Feeling the urge to cross over to the mainstream rock scene, Öhrn decided to skip the traditional rock'n'roll production clichés and instead opted to work with electronica producers Bard and Wikström to create a more innovative hybrid sound. A first demo tape from the new project Gravitonas began circulating in August 2009, a bidding war quickly ensued, and the band chose to sign with Molin-Ljunggren's Lionheart Music, introducing their own SoFo Records label in the process. Öhrn has since also established himself as an internationally successful songwriter, scoring his first Japanese #1 hit single in October 2009 as a songwriter for Japanese boy band Hey! Say! JUMP. Öhrn's co-producer Ben Smith is also involved with Gravitonas as the main guitar player of the project.
Attempting to avoid the cliché image of a fixed-member rock band churning out records, promoting and touring in a loop, Gravitonas is working towards a more original band model better suited for the web-, mobile- and streaming-dominated environment of the music industry beyond 2010. With this circus-like model, Gravitonas has artistically more in common with say Daft Punk or Gorillaz than with otherwise similarly sounding bands like Coldplay or Muse. Gravitonas will consequently be launched with a variety of soundbytes, pictures and short video clips online throughout 2010 and 2011, for example on the gravitonas.net website, concentrating on a bizarre audiovisual interplay between internet-savvy front figure Öhrn and producer/director Bard, inspired by the likes of Sparks and The KLF. More musicians and actors will gradually be introduced in Gravitonas.
Although this is the first time the two work together, Alexander Bard and Henrik Wikström are both legendary record producers in Sweden. Bard first rose to fame in the early 1990s as one of the founders of the Swedish electro-pop scene (the other two being producers Denniz Pop and Max Martin). In 1992, with his own band Army Of Lovers (over 7 million records sold) as its only signing, he partnered with legendary entrepreneur and producer Ola Håkansson to launch the classic record label Stockholm Records. Stockholm Records expanded rapidly, breaking major international stars like The Cardigans, A-Teens and Stakka Bo, and by the time the company was sold to Universal Music in 1998 it had already become Scandinavia's biggest independent record company.
Bard has since proceeded with an internationally successful career as an innovative writer and lecturer (his first book, co-written with Jan Söderqvist and released in 2000, has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide and been translated to 17 languages) but always maintained his career as a prolific and visionary producer and songwriter with acts such as Vacuum, Alcazar and BWO under his belt. His last incarnation BWO was voted Sweden's most popular rock and pop band in both 2006 and 2007 and went on to top the charts in over 20 countries on 4 continents.
Henrik Wikström, originally schooled as a Rachmaninov pianist, has been the leading in-house producer at Lionheart Music during the past decade. Mixing his broad knowledge of classical music with rock history and the latest electronics, he made his first international album production in 2009 for Greek superstar Michalis Hatzigiannis, signed to Universal Music Germany. Wikström is now engaged full-time as the head of all musical production for the Gravitonas project and is its main musical coordinator both for the planned record releases and upcoming live productions.
Singles:
* Kites - April 28 2010 (released globally as a digital download and streaming maxi-single in no less than 15 different versions)
The Pain We Love to Hide
Gravitonas Lyrics
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Taking the pain to seek and hide
You broke the surface from within
Lonely together
I stand accused in ball and chains
Walking the aisle where you precide
The bruises fade but scars remain
Everytime that I see you pass me by
Everytime when this river is running dry
Everytime when you hurt me there's a thrill
This thing you killed until we cried
The pain we love to hide
The pain we feel inside
The pain we love to hide (inside)
Inside (inside)
If I refuse the panic room
Will you display your secret code?
Where teardrops fall
The deserts bloom
Now and forever
Everytime that I see you pass me by
Everytime when this river is running dry
Everytime when you hurt me there's a thrill
This thing you killed until we cried
The pain we love to hide
The pain we feel inside
The pain we love to hide (inside)
Inside (inside)
Everytime when you hurt me there's a thrill
This thing you killed until we cried
The pain we love to hide
The pain we feel inside
The pain we love to hide (inside)
The pain we love to hide
The pain we feel inside
The pain we love to hide
The pain we love to hide (inside)
Inside
The lyrics of Gravitonas's "The Pain We Love to Hide" describe a complex and possibly unhealthy relationship between two people. The first verse begins with the singer writing their "safe word" on the other person's skin, implying that they engage in some form of BDSM or rough play. However, the line "Taking the pain to seek and hide" suggests that they also enjoy the emotional pain that comes with this type of relationship. The second line of the verse, "You broke the surface from within," could refer to the other person breaking down the singer's emotional barriers and exposing their hidden pain. The final line, "Lonely together," indicates that despite their physical and emotional closeness, both individuals feel lonely and possibly isolated.
The chorus of the song reinforces this feeling of addiction to pain and emotional turmoil. The line "Everytime when you hurt me there's a thrill" speaks to the idea that some people enjoy the pain and turmoil of their relationship, even though it causes them harm. The repeated line "The pain we love to hide / The pain we feel inside" further highlights this complicated dynamic. The final line of the chorus, "Inside," emphasizes the internal nature of their pain and the fact that despite their outward displays of affection, they are ultimately alone with their pain.
The second verse adds further depth to this relationship, describing the singer as "accused in ball and chains" and walking down the aisle where the other person presides. The bruises fade but the scars remain, indicating that they have been in this relationship for some time and have experienced both physical and emotional harm. The final lines, "If I refuse the panic room / Will you display your secret code?" speak to the idea of playing a game or having a secret language within the relationship.
Overall, "The Pain We Love to Hide" is a complex song that speaks to the idea of people willingly subjecting themselves to emotional pain in the context of a relationship. Whether this is a healthy or unhealthy dynamic is left up to interpretation.
Line by Line Meaning
I wrote my safe word on your skin
I trust you so fully that I've given you my safe word, which represents my ultimate form of surrender, written on your skin as a symbol of my complete vulnerability to you.
Taking the pain to seek and hide
We mutually seek out and savor the pain that we hide from the rest of the world, and our bond is strengthened by this shared secret.
You broke the surface from within
You shattered my defenses and exposed my deepest vulnerabilities with your love, leaving me more open and raw than ever before.
Lonely together
Though we are together, we both feel the solitude of being trapped in our own pain and secrets that we keep from the world.
I stand accused in ball and chains
I feel trapped by my emotional baggage and the pain that I carry, unable to fully shake it off or move on from it.
Walking the aisle where you preside
I am bound to you, walking the path of our relationship where you hold power and control over my emotions.
The bruises fade but scars remain
Though the physical bruises of our past have healed, the emotional scars they left behind are still painfully visible and present in our lives.
Now and forever
These scars and our shared pain are a permanent part of our lives, something that will never completely go away.
Everytime that I see you pass me by
Whenever I see you, all of our shared pain and memories come flooding back, overwhelming me with emotion.
Everytime when this river is running dry
Even as our relationship seems to be drying up, feeling less and less intense, the pain that we share continues to be a constant source of connection between us.
Everytime when you hurt me there's a thrill
When you hurt me, it hurts so good, like a secret thrill that we both savor and crave.
This thing you killed until we cried
The pain we share is something that you brought to life, something that we both nurtured and grew, until it became so intense that it brought us both to tears.
The pain we love to hide
Our shared pain is something that we both keep hidden from the world, something that would be too raw and too vulnerable to show to anyone else.
The pain we feel inside
This pain is something that we carry with us all the time, a constant weight on our hearts and minds that we can't shake off.
Inside
But even as we keep this pain hidden, it is still inside of us, where it will stay forever, a permanent part of who we are and what we share.
Contributed by Carson V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
MystiCult
One of my all time favourites!
Eddy Garcia
Really nice song
Ирина
SUPER