There is great need for people to listen to each other, to learn, and to incorporate new perspectives. Songwriting is a unique way to further exactly that.
We can re-learn that music is about people, our stories, our lives. It is not about algorithms or about art viewed only as a commodity . We are the children of the Earth, and we already have what it takes to take care of each other and our common home,” says Martin Høybye.
Martin & The New Songrise releases self-penned tracks by Høybye and also co-written songs for example about the ongoing repercussions of ecological crises, legacies of structural inequities or injustices.
Martin Høybye in the recording studio.
Martin spent decades honing his songwriting craft both as a solo artist and in collaboration with international recording artists – he then took his craft to academia and developed song co-writing as an ethnographic research method.
“It is absolutely key to The New Songrise that we can work research-based and with Martin’s strong commitment to share songwriting as a practice. Good things happen when artists share their practice. I really believe this approach can change the world for the better – one person at a time,” explains guitarist Jan Thomsen.
Simply put, the New Songrise champions a new way of approaching songwriting which is less concerned with hits and the ever more commodified approach to what songs can do. The New Songrise is more concerned with what may be striking.