“Heavenly Arms” live from Annedal Church, Gothenburg
El Perro Del Mar tells about "Heavenly Arms":
For some coincidental reason Lou Reed worked as some kind of muse for my new album, and perhaps especially this very song as the overall theme of it.
I knew from the beginning I was going to do an album of love songs but as I was far from in an amorous state of mind at the time I realized, I couldn't write anything that would be pretending I still believed in love. I wanted to though. Desperately. And upon reading the lyrics to "Heavenly Arms" I realized he'd find the way to express this dark and desperate fight for love to survive against all odds. Although time and space had come between it - you keep fighting for it until the end. In some ways "Heavenly Arms" helped me set the tone for the album. Performing it live is always very special. At Way Out West in Gothenburg this summer I had the chance to do it in a grand church with this huge cross hanging over my head. It was a strange and quite eerily beautiful feeling.
DISCOGRAPHY
// 'Baby, I've Been In A Bad Place' - limited cdr (HYBRIS 2004)
// 'I've Got Good News' - limited cdr (HYBRIS 2004)
// 'Holiday Special' - limited cdr (HYBRIS 2004)
// 'What's New? El Perro Del Mar - ep (HYBRIS 2004)
// 'Look! It's El Perro Del Mar! - album, Scandinavian version (HYBRIS 2005)
// 'You Gotta Give To Get - ep (HYBRIS 2005)
// 'El Perro Del Mar - album, international version (MI/COOP/TCG/INERTIA 2006)
// 'From The Valley To The Stars' - album (LICKING FINGERS/MI/COOP/TCG/INERTIA 2008)
// 'Love Is Not Pop - album (LICKING FINGERS/TCG/INERTIA 2009)
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