SoundClick artist: Leif Willumsen - There is no band. I sometimes feel like the wizard of Oz because what I make is all recorded through

Leif Willumsen is from Copenhagen in Denmark. He has travelled in Italy, France, Germany, Jugoslavia, and Greece. Living as a trubadour for 10 years in his younger days.
He is inspired by the English Blues-musician Sam Mitchell who lived and played in Copenhagen for many years. Now Willumsen is working with recordings in his own studio.

How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?

It has become a new way to marcet music beyond the big labels in the established record industri and lately also a comunity of artists revealed as human beings able to communicate without the help of some profile from a record company, which is all crap anyway. They turn people into cartoon figures and sell it like candy.

Would you sign a record contract with a major label?

Well try and offer me a record deal and I will go pretty far to accept it. If it includes a tour with live gigs of some kind.

Band History:

There is no band. I sometimes feel like the wizard of Oz because what I make is all recorded through the computer by me alone.
Some say its cheating...I say cheating can be harder than doing the real thing...In a band all musicians know what to do and each member contribute their part, but making it all on your own on the computer is much more complicated.
But I have a drum kid now and when the room is ready I want to mic it up and try it. And this will allow more sessions between musicians. Think that's the way to go, though still using the computers to mix and edit.

Your influences?

Sam Mitchell, Bob Dylan, JJ Cale, Chris Rea, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Mark Knoepler and some of the older blues musicians like muddy waters, but also from the 30's like Jimmie Gordon, Robert Johnson. And of course bands like deep purple, led zeppelin, the eagles and not to forget; the beatles (which where the band from which I first owned an LP album, which I sacretely listened to as a kid and learning all the lyrics by heart though much of it I didnt understand) it was the revolver album that was my first one.

Favorite spot?

Copenhagen town where I was born. I know every corner of this old town. And I've lived in most areas of the city by now.

Equipment used:

I have 8 computers running together with fx teleport. Cubase 5. A studio mic with preamp and a microphone room. Guitar Rig amplifier simulator for electric guitar. For acustic guitar I use a fishman Aura. Bas guitar I still play on the keyboard with the VST Instrument Trilogy by Spectratronics.

Anything else...?

I rent a basement not so far from where I work and here I have a "low tech" sound studio. Its based on computers with cubase but there is a lot of space and quiet nights to make my songs. I am trying to get into the recording busines in my spare time after work...