Carl Abrahamsson: Elisabeth Punzi & The Mushroom Clouds

After having worked with so much weird music together since 1989 or thereabouts, Thomas Tibert and me decided that it would be fun and challenging to make some real pop music instead of the usual Cotton Ferox-structures. So that's what we did, from 2009 and onwards. The Mushroom Clouds were now catapulted into an unsuspecting cosmos.

Back in 2010, we had amassed a bunch of tracks that were very conventional, yet trippy and perhaps even intelligent. Then we gave some serious thought to the vocal issue. Who could vocalize our vision?

The best answer to that question was within reach: Gothenburgian chanteuse extraordinaire Elisabeth Punzi of Whipped Cream-fame drifted into the studio like elegant royalty and, as they so frequently say on TV these days, "delivered". The first result of this collaboration is the EP called EP I, which is available in the digisphere from September 5th, 2013.

Beauty and the Beats: Elisabeth Punzi flanked by Mushroom & Clouds, 2010.

There will be more from The Mushroom Clouds of course. Each EP will be a collaboration with a female singer and we hope to work with many different kinds of voices and singing styles in the near future. If you want to be involved somehow, just e-mail us.

We will try to make this an audiovisual adventure too, so that each song gets its own video – or vice versa.

We have now made our first public contribution as conventional songwriters. It feels good and we're very pleased with the result. And we are currently writing new songs for future adventures. Don't worry... We won't leave the experimental or the ambient or the electronic or whatever behind... But The Mushroom Clouds will always be a POP experience from this day and onwards.

We hope that you'll join us on this musical mystery trip!

The Mushroom Clouds' EP I is available from The Highbrow Lowlife Webshop, iTunes, Spotify, Wimp, Amazon and all the others...

To see Mushroom Clouds and Cotton Ferox videos, please click here...