Behold

• Country of Release: NLD
• Year of Release: 2011
• Record Label: Sony

After two albums Mads Langer was in the midst of breaking up with his record label when a Danish radio station asked if he wanted to record a cover for their Best of 90s theme. A year later, Mads Langer’s emotionally charged version of "You’re Not Alone" had topped the charts around Europe and Mads found himself performing in front of 130,000 people. Along with his musical skills, over time Mads has developed a genuine, deep knowledge of everything from classical to jazz and punk and there is, of course, that angelic voice (compared to the likes of Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke, and Chris Martin) that hasn’t hurt either. At the age of 15, Mads decided that one day he was going to move to New York and become a rock star. A few years later, a talent scout took Mads out for a beer after a local audition in Skive and suggested he take his songs and jump on a train to Copenhagen. It seemed very much like everything was going to begin when Mads Langer, only just 20, had arrived in the Danish capital with a few homemade demos and was quickly perceived as the new big star of Danish pop. Mads, at the age of 22, did inevitably find himself in New York and on the cusp of achieving the rock star dreams he had envisioned seven years earlier. Again, he was told that he was an enormous talent, a star, a name for the future. This time around the dream really was going to come true. But by then, the words rang empty and Mads Langer was tired of other people’s visions. Even Mads himself didn’t fully believe in them – nor in his own music. Homesick and at a crossroads, Mads returned home to Skive. On that tour of intimate gigs at small venues is where Mads really began to find himself again and in less than a year, he had thousands of new fans- fans who turned up for the music. Mads says “The album Behold is a reflection of the constant flow of music running through my veins. I observe through my music and ping-pong between lyrics and melodies to capture snapshots of my reality. I'm very inspired of the way Keith Jarrett just lets his hands run out of control and create big poetic moments out of improvisation. The same can be said for other big artists like Ryan Adams and Jeff Buckley. I can relate to all three because they all seem to let their intuition and playful musicalities take them to beautiful places. My own music originates in the same way.”