Vanbot

Vanbot has previously released two albums; Vanbot (2011) and Perfect Storm (2015) and has toured Europe and the US. One additional album was recorded in 2013 but was discarded just before completion. It was the breaking point in that recording process that triggered the idea to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway to make new music: to remove herself from the traditional recording studio and the endless choices that it provides. An escape,perhaps? But more than that, it was a desire to be in motion, to upset the status quo of the ordinary, both mentally and physically. Spurred on by curiosity to see what happens with the songwriting process when you change your patterns and stretch your limits, the project became a reality.

“I was almost obsessed with the idea and attracted to the contrast of the isolation of the train car yet at the same time being in constant motion. The limited technology yet working with crystal clear focus, what is taken away and what emerges when you peel back the layers and break things down.

The trip became an experiment where Vanbot , together with Berglund and Winnberg , wrote and recorded an album from start to finish all in a train compartment on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing.