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Alter Me
12+ albums
danishrockindiealternativedenmark
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A propos de Alter Me Alter Me - Biography The five-man band popped up like a jack-in-the-box with their high-octane, energy-driven single “You Can’t” A good riff and sharp hooks make the group’s calling card and the Danish Broadcasting Corp’s P3 immediately named the song Pick of the Week. Other radio stations quickly followed suit and amplified mounting expectations for Alter Me and their debut album. The band has found the right title for the album: The Fall, and even thought Alter Me is the collective platform for the ambitions, musical appetite and longings of five young musicians, 25-year-old Hans Mortensen carries the most weight on the album – he is the group’s vocalist, guitarist, pianist, composer and song writer. Hans is an unwritten chapter in Danish rock. In actual fact, he is all but unknown, and not just in the realm of rock. Two-thirds of his life was spent about as far away from the modern world as you can get. He was one of 3,000 inhabitants of Qaqortoq, a town in southern Greenland, an anonymous splinter of the world where even the electricity to power local radio towers had a hard time finding its way there. But the story begins in 1982, when Hans entered the world in a village outside Ålborg. When he was just four years old, his parents – both of them schoolteachers – decided to pull up stakes and move to Greenland for a year. However, the opportunity to start and build up a high school in Qaqortoq proved to be too great a temptation. One year stretched i
