A song in the making since 2010
On New Year's Eve 2010, I decided to stay home and chill by myself and just write. I had just had a phone call with a casual friend I'd recently met and I felt a bit of aloneness in her story and this sparked the writing of 'Alone Together' the first version. I loved it pretty much right away and recorded and released it a couple years later in the summer of 2012.
Around this time I met a young entrepreneur/musician from Gothenburg, Sweden in LA at a festival. He was a heavy metal fan but despite a huge difference in taste of music, he loved 'Alone Together' and we stayed casually in touch.
In 2013, I decided to make a decision that would change my life drastically forever and that was to sell my house and my belongings and move to Berlin, Germany to pursue my original music as a career.
I started touring right away and decided to make my way up north to Sweden to visit my friend there. By this time he had just started his fledgling label 'Rexius Records' and was now taking on artists slowly but it wasn't really on the table until early in 2019 I suddenly saw some of my songs on Spotify get a lot of streams and I wondered how!
It was Mathias Rexius, my friend in Gothenburg - he had created some very successful playlists that included some of my songs! He was still excited about 'Alone Together' and so he invited me to fly to Sweden and re-record it for his label! At first I was a little hesitant - I wanted to record a new song - but he insisted on it because he loved the song so much. So I flew up to Gothenburg and recorded it there in the fall of that year.
The problem then was that I hated the new recording! So when I flew back to Berlin I was faced with a song that I didn't like and didn't know what to do about it as I really didn't have the skills at that time to re-record things in my home studio. I felt kind of trapped and so it was put on the shelf for a bit til I could figure something out.
I tried working on it myself though, learning a bit more producing but was falling short of what I wanted and was finding myself putting it off more and more.
Then I had my first child in 2020. Then I had my second child in 2022.
Finally in 2023 Rexius Records reached out to me one final time and asked if I could do something with the song or call the deal done - and I decided to take it on. I re-recorded almost everything at home in my home studio and used just the original vocals and guitar takes. And as I did that I started to love the song all over again. Finally the song was reborn, renewed and the feeling was exciting to submit to the label and have them excited about it too! The departure away from my acoustic roots was fun for me, especially having the driving electronic bass ripping through the song.
The story behind the video
In 2020, I was on tour when I picked up a couple young guys via a car-sharing platform going to the city I was performing in that evening. We had great conversations and after trading instagram profiles, he showed his work with drones and I was impressed! I invited him to Berlin to shoot video for me for the song 'Way Of Life' which never got used as I didn't like the edits and it just didn't work the way I had hoped. When 'Alone Together' needed a video I wondered if the footage would fit and sure enough...we had a fit which in my opinion turned out better! Destiny is a wonderful thing I believe in. The footage was shot in September of that year in Berlin and Potsdam - mainly at Schloss Sansouci - which I think you'll find gorgeous!
Alone Together Remix Lyrics
We’re alone for different reasons
Maybe that’s our cross to bear
But if it’s any consolation
We’re alone together
We forget sometimes what we mean to each other
And we don’t see sometimes how we see one another
If anything should happen to me I want you to know
I know how you feel
Please know I know how much you feel
I feel the rain when it falls on you
I hold the cold in your bones too
I know how much you hurt in the middle
I know how much you hide
Cause I’m right there, with you
If there’s any consolation
There’s a crowd under the weather
If it’s any consolation
It’s a road we share
If it’s any consolation
There’s a line and we’re all in it
If it’s any consolation
I’m right there
With you alone
Together
Alone together
I, I know we’ll find our way
I, I know we’ll find our way
I, I know we’ll find our way
I, I know we’ll find our way
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