Per Gessle’s new single, a duet with Amanda Ginsburg is out!

Per Gessle has released a new duet, Plåster from his upcoming album as the fourth single. The single contains two songs:

Side A
Plåster

Side B
Jupiter Calling (2024)

Listen to it on any streaming platform HERE and don’t forget to order the physical copy, a 7″ vinyl at Bengans! (B side HERE!)

The video to Plåster premieres at 9 am CET on 4th October.

Per says:

I have already released three singles from the album, duets with Molly Hammar, Lena Philipsson and Albin Lee Meldau. Now it’s time for another duet, this time together with one of my favorite Swedish singers, Amanda Ginsburg. I have admired Amanda for several years, both through her outstanding concerts and records, and was extremely happy when she agreed to sing on “Plåster”, a key song on my new album. Amanda has a wonderful voice to sink into and it fits the “Plåster” message perfectly.

Amanda says:

Being invited into Per’s music has been an enormous joy and honor all the way through! What a star! For me, “Plåster” is a reminder of the power of words and to dare to say both the small and the big kind words. We always need them, but perhaps now more than ever.

Per to RoxBlog:

Amanda’s certainly got an amazing voice. So happy she wanted to sing along.  “Plåster” is, for me, the standout track on the new album. It’s not very commercial nor radio friendly, but it’s a very special composition and I do love the way it turned out. Ola G played some fab guitars on this one. And I love the brass section.

“Jupiter Calling” is part of all the recordings I did with MP + Micke Syd way back in 1995. I’ve added new backing vocals and fixed one line in the lyrics. Otherwise it’s still how it was recorded with a new mix by MP. He surprises me sometimes with new mixes of old analogue stuff. “So many songs, so much time” is the MP way of living these days.

That one change in Jupiter Calling (2024) is “the batteries ran out” instead of “the batteries were down”.

 

Plåster

Om du hade suttit intill
Och jag kunde gjort vad jag vill
Så hade jag berättat för dig
Vad du betyder för mig
Jag vet att
Ord kan vara så små
Och göra skada ändå
Men mina är starka som stål
Och blir plåster på dina sår
Mjukt på dina sår

Om du hade suttit bredvid
Det hade knappt tagit någon tid
Innan vi skrattat i kör
Åt världen som bor utanför
Jag vet att
Ord kan skapa magi
Men också ställa till krig
Mina är harmlösa barn
Inga frågor som kräver svar
Du får allt du vill ha

Ord kan bygga magi
Mirakel fyrverkeri
Jag hoppas de går att förstå
Och blir plåster på dina sår
Mjukt på dina sår

De blir plåster
På dina sår
På dina sår

Words & music: Per Gessle
Published by Jimmy Fun Music

Produced by Per Gessle

Recorded at Tits & Ass, Halmstad, February + March + April 2023 + Sweetspot, Harplinge, March 2023

Engineers: Mats Persson (T&A) + Staffan Karlsson (Sweetspot)
Mixed by Mats Persson + Per Gessle at T&A, Halmstad, May 2023

Per Gessle: acoustic guitar + piano + vocals
Amanda Ginsburg: vocals
Ola Gustafsson: electric guitar + slide guitar + mandolin + dobro
Magnus Helgesson: drums + percussion
Fredrik ”Gicken” Johansson: electric bass + lap steel + dobro
Helena Josefsson: backing vocals
Mats Persson: mandolin + synths + dobro
Per Thornberg: tenor saxophone + baritone saxophone

 

Jupiter Calling (2024)

Words & music: Per Gessle
Published by Jimmy Fun Music

Produced by Per Gessle

Recorded at Tits & Ass, Halmstad, 3rd August 1995 + 31st July 2024

Engineer: Mats Persson
Mixed by Mats Persson at T&A, Halmstad, August 2024

Per Gessle: electric guitar + acoustic guitar + piano + synth + vocals
Micke Syd Andersson: drums
Mats Persson: electric guitar + electric bass

Photo by Fredrik Etoall

Jupiter Calling (2024) got its own digital sleeve so that this song doesn’t pop up on the duet partner’s page as well.