”Abiquiu Lake is a lake in New Mexico, about an hour's drive from Santa Fe, where I lived between 2016-2022.
I went there many times with my ex and our dogs.
The mountain, or mesa, at one end of the lake is called Cerro Pedernal.
Me and many other artists have depicted that mesa many times.
The road to the lake goes through communities marked by drugs and poverty, dollar stores and junkyards and junk food restaurants...and said that great nature...
There's something sad about it...all the life you can imagine is there among the trailers, half pickup trucks lined up on pallets, old school buses, closed stores, churches with big billboards proclaiming the greatness of God, abandoned motels and gas stations...
This is a song about parting, a song about moving on, inspired by the road to Abiquiu.”
- David Fridlund
I went there many times with my ex and our dogs.
The mountain, or mesa, at one end of the lake is called Cerro Pedernal.
Me and many other artists have depicted that mesa many times.
The road to the lake goes through communities marked by drugs and poverty, dollar stores and junkyards and junk food restaurants...and said that great nature...
There's something sad about it...all the life you can imagine is there among the trailers, half pickup trucks lined up on pallets, old school buses, closed stores, churches with big billboards proclaiming the greatness of God, abandoned motels and gas stations...
This is a song about parting, a song about moving on, inspired by the road to Abiquiu.”
- David Fridlund
Artist: Citizens Band Orchestra
Single: Abiquiu (On the way to)
Release date: 10th of feb
Single: Abiquiu (On the way to)
Release date: 10th of feb
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Rms0TUCGvRvgbQICLKJPf?si=664cdc223c2d4288
Apple/iTunes: https://music.apple.com/se/album/abiquiu-on-the-way-to-single/1667272082
Apple/iTunes: https://music.apple.com/se/album/abiquiu-on-the-way-to-single/1667272082
Free MP3 because we're nice: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4t4zu4vyz19kd3x/01%20Abiquiu%20%28on%20the%20way%20to%29.mp3?dl=0
Single taken from the forthcoming album: So Changed the Landscape
Album out 14th of april
Album out 14th of april
CD version contains 2 exclusiv bonus tracks.
Single artwork: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gs1xt16lpl4uelu/Singel%20-%20Abiquiu%20%28on%20the%20way%20to%29%20medium.jpeg?dl=0
David Fridlund formed the indie-pop band David & the Citizens in 1999, a band which debuted 2001 and which, over the course of a 5-year period, managed to release 3 albums, countless EPs, tour all over Europe, be nominated for a Grammy and then split up on a bad way. During the years they were active, they gathered a large crowd of enthusiastic fans where many identified themselves in David's angst-driven lyrics and danced to the slightly happier indie pop. Shortly after the split, David moved to the US, and no one heard from him. What happened to him? This CD is somewhat of an answer to that question.
David lived in the USA 2009-2022. For several years he didn't make music, he had lost the desire and inspiration, but sometime in 2019, that desire came back and he started writing a lot of songs again. This album consists of songs from that time in the US. The songs came about during a dark period in his life. Born out of a failed relationship, they became his refuge when everything felt hopeless and lonely. He wrote and recorded most of them in an apartment on 2nd Street in Santa Fe, on an 8-channel digital porta with only two guitars, a trumpet, a snare drum, a melodica, a harmonica, an organ, and a head full of ideas. During the years he wasn't making music, he spent all the more time drawing and the images on the cover are drawings he made between 2016-2022. This is not a solo album with David Fridlund, it is David Fridlund himself under the name Citizens Band Orchestra.
Lyrics:
On the way to Abiquiu,
something died inside you
hit so hard I felt it too
I knew I was losing you
on the way to Abiquiu
Something in the light that day
everything was faded gray
the last sunlight in your eyes
everything felt like goodbye
all the deja vu’s we’ve had
finishing each other’s sentences…little things
so many mountains
something died inside you
hit so hard I felt it too
I knew I was losing you
on the way to Abiquiu
Something in the light that day
everything was faded gray
the last sunlight in your eyes
everything felt like goodbye
all the deja vu’s we’ve had
finishing each other’s sentences…little things
so many mountains
And all this time, this time won’t be like that
you’re spread so thin, there’s nothing more to take
“If I don’t make it, spread me on the lake…”
you’re spread so thin, there’s nothing more to take
“If I don’t make it, spread me on the lake…”
On the way to Abiquiu
where the road curves through those red rocks
and you feel the dust you are…
those cliffs across the river, like a rainbow…
where the road curves through those red rocks
and you feel the dust you are…
those cliffs across the river, like a rainbow…
And all this time, this time you’re leaving nothing behind
This time you’re falling blind
and a silent rain is falling on the lake
This time you’re falling blind
and a silent rain is falling on the lake
And late at night you wake me up with tears in your eyes
and we lay there silent in the dark, side by side
while waves of thunder roll across the sky
no stars dancing on the lake tonight
and we lay there silent in the dark, side by side
while waves of thunder roll across the sky
no stars dancing on the lake tonight
Adrian Recordings
Sweden
Sweden
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