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The Hourglass Sessions

by Martin Hoybye

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1.
The Best I Can 03:12
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2.
Higher 04:36
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3.
Had My Time 04:18
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4.
Have I Seen You 03:35
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5.
Time Stand Still 03:43
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6.
Happyville 03:38
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7.
There Comes A Light 03:20
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8.
So Little Time 04:12
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9.
Longer Lives 05:16
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10.
Time Flies 04:48
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11.
All We Have 03:26
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about

’The Hourglass Sessions’ is a new album from Martin Hoybye revolving around time and the ephemeral. The eleven tracks are tied together by their common musical setting and textual orbit: Why are we here? What is important? What will I pass on? 

The songs are a journey through inner landscapes shaped by the hands of time. At times torn and jagged and at others blissful, abundant and lush. The forces of life and love are recurring sources that help refill the hourglass, so that it may be turned to make everything new again.  
While time is a trope running through all of the songwriting, one point Martin Hoybye would like to have come across is that many of our perceived infinite resources are, in fact, finite.
‘We treat natural resources like water and air as carelessly as we tend to treat each other. In a sense, our lives are too short. We are not geared to understand the repercussions of our actions centuries or even just decades down the line,’ he says.
The first single ’Longer Lives’ with its recurring statement ’we need longer lives’ puts existential focus on this limitation – but also on hope for the future because time brings change and thereby possibility: ’They say your lifeline is given / you’re just one grain of sand / well maybe time changes even / the lines in a hand,’ as the lyric goes.
And this message is textually related to the other songs on ’The Hourglass Sessions,’ from the bleak ’Had My Time’, over the dancable ’Time Flies’ to the lively ’So Little Time’ with its South American references.
Thematically the songs deal with big questions through the lens of what is close at hand – or close to home – because in the seemingly daunting and scary circumstances that climate change and the advent of the Anthropocene brings, Martin Hoybye wanted to try to write about what mattered most to him. And rather than turning out as topical or political songs the project quickly took a more personal direction.
‘Because how do you write about the idea of the end of the world? What does that even mean? I realized that to me that meant something very personal yet universal. And in turn the bulk of these songs are about life and living, about family and what I would like to pass on. Working with these foundational human conditions I have strived for a universality that hopefully lets others see themselves in these songs,” he says.

credits

released January 26, 2019

Martin’s vocals and acoustic guitars recorded at the Tree House
All other tracks recorded at Aabyroad Studio
Mixed and mastered by Dennis Ahlgren at Aabyroad Studio
Illustrations by Michael Sølvsten Madsen
Artwork by Martin Pedersen

Supported by DPA

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Martin wishes to thank:

Dennis Ahlgren, Kajsa Vala and Astrid Steen Noringris. Roar Amundsen, Helle Hansen, DPA (Danske Populær Autorer). Michael Sølvsten Madsen og Martin Pedersen.

Mette, Ida, Minna, Ella. It took a while but we got here… this one’s for you.

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Words and Music: Martin Høybye

Lead vocals and acoustic guitars: Martin Høybye
Drums, bass, keys, percussion, electric guitars, additional strings and acoustic guitars: Dennis Ahlgren
Backing vocals: Kajsa Vala, Astrid Steen Noringriis and Martin Høybye

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Martin Høybye has spent more than two decades honing his craft as a songwriter and co-writer professionally, before taking his songwriting practice to academia. From 2019 to 2022 he shared songwriting with others from South Africa to Sweden to identify ways of working that could turn songwriting into more of a communal resource. ... more

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