To explain MACHINE, we need to go back to 1989.  That is the year Martin (aka Bonefish) and Ed met each other for the first time and that’s when their first band, ‘Julia,’ was formed.  `Julia´ was a local success story that soon became national when they were touring Sweden between 1991-1996 and released an album on Mega Records in 1995 with TV, radio and video appearances.

Shortly after the album was released the band broke up.  Martin and a couple of remaining ‘Julia’ members started the band: ‘Cornfish’ – a jazz, blues and vaudeville song writing quartet.  Ed went his own way and started the band `NME´ together with two former members of  ‘Shotgun Messiah.  ’Cornfish’ was active between 1997-1999 and did well on the local scenes.  During 1997,  NME worked on an album in New York but it was never released.  NME split up in 1998 and Ed returned to Sweden.  At the same time, Martin left Cornfish and moved to Stockholm. Unaware of each other’s decisions, they both stepped away from their song writing.

Between 2000-2004 both appeared in different bands. There were even a few reunions of the band ‘Julia.’  In late 2004, Martin decided to build a recording studio in one of his closets.  The song writing began from scratch and a whole new set of material – singer/songwriter style – took form around 2005/2006.  During 2005-2008, Martin performed sporadically on the singer/songwriting stages of New York and Stockholm.

In the autumn of 2008, Martin required Ed’s consent to do an English version of the Julia song ‘Stilla’ (‘Holding Me High’). That simple phone call led to the beginning of a new story. Two musicians, bound together by fate and separated by life’s circumstances, found each other again and MACHINE was born.   MACHINE is the fusion between Martin and Ed…

In 2012, MACHINE released their debut EP entitled, ‘Sixteen Twenty-Eight’ exclusively through the Bandcamp platform and iTunes.

MACHINE on Bandcamp

MACHINE on iTunes

To learn more about Machine and for press kits, please contact Maria Infantine at Innsbruck Records -   maria@innsbruckrecords.com

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