working with Anthony

I guess we have mutual friends in New York, and we sort of got to know each other. He came to Iceland and did a gig there, and we ended up in a cabin in the mountains singing, and it slowly developed from there.

There are two songs on the album : one that I wrote to my son, where Antony’s voice is singing the part of the conscious, so it’s a little bit of his Jeremy Cricket to my Pinocchio, if you want. And on another song we’re singing a poem by Russian poet, and it’s very, very romantic. It’s the duet. We would spend a week in Jamaica and we would sing all the stuff over and over again. I guess we ended up singing quite quiet songs because maybe we were a little bit worried about stepping on each other’s toes, but then one morning I turned up with this song on the dictaphone, that I’ve written in the middle of the night, and thought “why don’t we just start it out like divas ?“ We can be proper Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand. We both sung into the same microphone, which was quite funny, because he’s a lot taller than me, so I had to stand on the chair.

BBC 6 Music Week Interview, March 25 2007