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LINKÖPING Nobody listened when Magna Carta Cartel released his debut album almost 10 years ago. Today, audiences have found their world in the world. Now a tour is waiting in Europe.
Ebba Örn15: 30 | 2018-07-14
The first disc will be released in 2009. Or, as Magna Carta Cartel itself expresses, 2009 band members send out a bottle of music in cyberspace to see where it ends. Little everywhere and nowhere does it prove, and the following year, Magna Carta Cartel goes into a long rest.
But since 2016, the band, whose music has been described as "alternative ghost rock", is back. And this time they have a really much larger audience.
"At the moment we have a pretty faithful fan-show," says singer Martin Persner. Many have found us through Ghost, surely 85-90 percent are Ghost fans.
Yes, when Magna Carta Cartel, also called the MCC, takes a break, the band members do not do the same. Three of them, including Martin Persner, stand in these years on world scenes with the Ghost band, the band that emerges behind masks, whose identities are speculated on forums and in media.
In the summer of 2016, Martin Persner ends in Ghost. A somewhat tired look proves that he had the question of why before.
"No, I do not want to go into that," says Martin Persner. Not a chance.
I am trying again.
"It's a lot of things, including the fact that I'm called a witness to the district court this fall and I do not know what to say.
Almost one year after Martin Persner and Ghost have gone separate ways, several Ghost band members submit a lawsuit against frontman Tobias Forge. The band members claim that the fees have been lost and Forge has managed the band's economy without their insight. Martin Persner is not himself involved in the lawsuit but will be witnessing this fall, for which side does he not know.
In the same way as Martin Persner stops playing in Ghost, he revives the MCC again. This time there are other members, brother Arvid Persner on drums and Pär Glendor on ba. Demo versions released on MySpace long ago are now streamed, the bottle record is found. New songs are recorded and released in 2017.
"I wrote Ghost all the time," says Martin Persner, who writes most of MCC's songs. I needed another aesthetic channel.
How has your sound changed over these years?
"The music in its purest form has probably not changed so much," said Martin Persner. But we basically only drove on the instrumental past, which becomes quite difficult for many. Today it's more song, more "mom and dad" music.
You say nobody listened to the MCC earlier. Ghost on the other hand became super big. What is it all about?
- I think the MCC then, 2009, was too complicated. MCC was a black and white art movie when Ghost was a simple, good horror movie. Ghost's music is amazing and has something you need in today's society; It is clearly framed and packaged.
Stockholm, Berlin, Paris. The 28th of September begins Magna Carta Cartel's European Tour. Nine gigs in six countries, their first tour ever.
You have been on many great scenes with Ghost over the years. When you are now a Tournament with MCC, there are significantly smaller scenes.
- Yes indeed. In the first years with Ghost, we played before two, three hundred people one week and at the festival before thousands of next week. It has to be done, and it is only now that we do it with the MCC.
What can the audience expect?
- At the moment, we hardly know how many musicians we will be on stage, but we have a vision of how it will look.
FACTS
Facts
Magna Carta Cartel
The band originated as an idea at a bar in Gothenburg in 2004 and two years later, Magna Carta Cartel was formed
The music falls within the genre alternative rock
2009 releases the first album "Goodmorning Restrained"
In 2010, several of the band members jump on the Ghost train and Magna Carta Cartel gets a long break
In connection with Martin Persner leaving Ghost 2016, he revives Magna Carta Cartel
2017 released the EP "Demon King"
September 28, 2018, Magna Carta Cartel begins his first tour at Nalen in Stockholm
