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Albert Hammond Jr. er en amerikansk guitarist, keyboardspiller og sanger, som udover at have udgivet i sit eget navn, er medlem af indierockbandet The Strokes. Han er også søn af en af 60’erne og 70’ernes store sangskrivere, Albert Hammond Sr.

Under eget navn har han udgivet ‘Yours to Keep’ i 2006 og ‘¿Cómo Te Llama?’ i 2008. I år – nærmere bestemt 31. juli – udkommer han med sit tredje udspil ‘Momentary Masters’. Derefter tager han på en turné, som rammer Amager Bio 6. december.

Titlen ‘Momentary Masters’ er inspireret af astronomen Carl Sagan, der i sin bog ‘Pale Blue Dot’ skrev ”The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”

Citatet resonerede med Hammond Jr. – både pga. ironien, men også fordi det understreger succesers flygtighed. En følelse han kunne genkende eks. når han havde færdiggjort en sang: “I feel like the best songs I’ve written, as soon as I was done, I was like, “Oh my God, I did it!’ But in that split second that it comes, that feeling goes. It’s the same thing when you find complete happiness, you find this complete low. I feel like that’s what being creative is: It’s you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.”

Der er sket en del i Hammond Jr.’s liv siden 2008 og ‘¿Cómo Te Llama?’. Dengang var Hammond Jr. opslugt af succesen med The Strokes og rock’n’roll-livets ekstravagancer og romancer. En livstil der førte til, at han måtte på rehab. Om vejen tilbage til sangskrivningen fortæller han:

“A year and half after rehab I wasn’t sure if I was going to do it again. The first thing I wrote was ‘One Way Trigger’ for Comedown Machine, but before that nothing came out of me for a year and a half. If ‘like life was a river flowing and I felt like I was on the edge. It was a case of, ‘Everyone’s in there, how do I get in?’ Then when I got in, it was terrifying. Now I find it funny, like what was I so scared of? You can get the most of what you want if you’re there and present.”

Nu er han tilbage, så glæd dig til en kunstner der har lavet sine mest vedkommende sange nogensinde.