DA CAPO VÖ: 30.09.2002 Label: Polydor

Titel Lyrics 01 Unspeakable 02 Beautiful Morning 03 Remember The Words 04 Da Capo 05 World Down Under 06 Ordinary Day 07 Wonderful Live 08 Show Me Love 09 What's The Name Of The Game? 10 Change With The Light 11 Hey Darling 12 The Juvenile

Ace of Base sold more than 30 million albums and 15 milliom singles. Now they are back with the single "Beautiful Morning", a classic pop-song with the typical Ace of Base-style, which was written from the 3 Berggren-siblings. In the early autumn 2002 the band will release a new album. It is the first album with only non-published songs since "Flowers/Cruel Summer" (1998) and combines the classic pop-sound of the band with new structures.

"Since our last album (Flowers) we had to be occupied with the thoughts to make a new album. Perhaps some people guessed, we were splitted, but this apllies to many other bands", says Jenny with a smile and refers to the trend in the music-industry and the fusions of many great labels. And this situation (fusion) made the recording and creating of the new album slower as hoped for.

For the right sound for the new album some producers were instructed: the swedish Jonas Von der Burg and Harry Sommerdahl from the Pile-studios had produced and together with Jonas Berggren composed some songs too, further the german Axel Breitung and Thorsten Brötzmann (No Angels) worked on the album. Jonas Berggren wrote some songs alone and some songs with the producers and some songs with the other band-members.

"Change With the Light" was written by all the band-members and together with Pontus Söderquist on the Stockholm LaCarr studio pre-produced (the highly reputated guitar-player Martin Hedström came later to help with the production of "The Juvenile"). The production of "Change With The Light" was finished by Cheif 1 in Denmark. It is a very special song for Ace of Base, because the writing of the song was made by all band-members, which was superwised by Ulf Ekberg. "He had to protect, that we got good food and nice people around us. He wanted, that we all felt good. It was great, that we got to know us as human being and musicians on this kind of work", said Jenny Berggren.

The album shows the diversity of the band. If it is the big section of pop-music, they rules all the variety of it. From the first single "Beautiful Morning", classical pop-music from the best (written from the siblings), over "Ordinary Day", a very harmonic and relaxed song, which Jonas had recovered with help of his wife Birthe as he played to her, to "Da Capo", a very amusing up-tempo-song and on of the favorite songs of Jonas. "The Juvenile" is a slow, dramatic song, which was original written for a James-Bond-movie. The label of that time convinced the band not to use the song for the movie. So the band instead of this wrote a new text to "The Juvenile".

"I love the message of the song", says Jenny in agreemant. "Rather the song says us, if you don`t care for the youth today, the youth will not care for you in time to come."

Jenny and Linn had the possibility to use often the studio of their brother. In "The Barn" (was built in a barn, which was used "ur-ur-grandfather" of the siblings) they recorded their thoughts with singing, id they were in the right atmosphere. Other recordings were made on the LaCarr studio and the Pile studios in Stockholm, but in Hamburg important parts of the album were produced too.