Wall Street Journal Exclusively Premieres PETER MOREN's 'Esther' Video
Talk about lost in translation. When singer Peter Morén began translating songs he had written in his native Swedish to English for a pair of EP releases, he found some of them simply didn't work in another language. Speakeasy today premieres a video for one of the songs that did, an English-language version of 'Esther.'
Morén, one-third of the Swedish indie-pop group Peter Bjorn and John, found it 'liberating' to write in his native tongue on a pair of solo albums, 2010's 'I spåren av tåren' and 2012's 'Pyramiden.'
'I have a bigger vocabulary, you know, and it's easier to play with it,' Morén says. 'But when when we started translating things, I kept more than I thought I would. I kept a lot of the quirky stuff.'
The translated songs comprise a pair of EPs, 'Broken Swenglish' volumes one and two. Morén released the first last year; the second comes out this week and includes 'Esther,' a song named for Morén's dog.
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