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Hold My Hand

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Three years have passed since we last heard from the melodious lo-fi ensemble Arbirk. Now they are ready to follow-up on their debut album ‘Disguises’ from 2017 with new music. The first single is ‘Hold My Hand’ and it is out July 24. The song is produced by Simon Ask Ladekarl from the Danish band Katinka and is also featuring Marie Christiansen from the same band on backing vocals. 



Since the debut Arbirk has gone from being a solo project to being a band which the new song showcases ever so elegantly in the versatile instrumentation that features a toy piano, flügelhorn and alt-sax, reminiscing American indie artists Death Cab For Cutie, Sparklehorse and Grandaddy. Arbirk endures the comparison with these big foreign names as the Danish band with authority and a personal expression have the same flair for a catchy tune served in a trembling arrangement.



'Hold My Hand’ has a strong personal and gripping story which the singer and songwriter Rasmus Arbirk elaborates: »The song is written based on my work at the Red Cross Youth volunteer café at the National Hospital. It is about losing someone you love, sitting next to them on the hospital bed and not being able to offer other ways of support than holding their hand when it really hurts. The song's title and chant in the chorus gets an extra layer of pathos. The more times it is sung it becomes clearer that it is not only as comfort to the one who is dying, but also to the one who has to live on. The time we live in taken into account, the "dangerous symbol" of contact and in empathy with those who have lost without being able to say a proper goodbye, without being able to give or receive comfort.«

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Hold My Hand
written by Rasmus Arbirk Larsen
 


You’re here in every song
With your homemade L.C. t-shirt on
I felt your smile in the concert hall
Hope you’re proud because this is all for you


On your clean white pillow sheet
Tied to tubes filled with morphine
But is there more you’d like to eat
More than shitty food from vending machines
Just hold my hand

Just hold my hand


Holding on past twenty feet
With shaking legs of pure ivory
And you’re still my dancing queen
Shining bright for all the world to see
But it’s night and time to sleep
Fill your head with fond memories
Forget all that’s troubling
You’ll wake up far from all this pain


Just hold my hand
Just hold my hand
Just hold my hand
Just hold my hand
Just hold my hand

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released July 24, 2020
Music & Lyrics by Rasmus Arbirk Larsen

Arrangement by Arbirk & Simon Ask Ladekarl
 



Arbirk is:

Rasmus Arbirk Larsen - vocal, acoustic guitar, toy piano

Henrik Arbirk Larsen - piano, saxophone

Daniel Buchwald - bass, electric guitar, thumb piano, Flügel horn
 


Add. musician:

Marie Hageltorn Christiansen - vocals





Produced & mixed by Simon Ask Ladekarl

Mastered by Joel Kroner & Simon Ask Ladekarl (Six Bit Deep)


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Arbirk Copenhagen, Denmark

Lead singer Rasmus Arbirk has, after a past in the band Dead Young Oaks, pulled the plug completely from the musicscene and in the cold light of silence, recorded a debut album filled with beautiful, honest and fragile music. The debutalbum is scheduled for release October 7th, 2017. ... more

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