To explain MACHINE, we need to go back to 1989. That’s the year Martin (a.k.a. Bonefish) and Ed meet each other for the first time, and that’s when their first band, ‘Julia’, is formed. Touring Sweden between 1991-1996 and releasing an album on Mega Records in 1995, with the following tv, radio and video appearances, `Julia´ was a local success story going national.

But shortly after the album release the band breaks up. Martin and a couple of the remaining Julia-members starts the band: ‘Cornfish’, a jazz, blues and vaudeville song writing quartet. Ed goes his own way and starts the band `NME´ together with two of the former members of ‘Shotgun Messiah’.

Cornfish is active between 1997-1999 and is doing good on the local scenes. During 1997 NME works on an album in New York but it is never released. NME splits up in 1998 and Ed returns to Sweden. At the same time, Martin leaves Cornfish and moves to Stockholm. Unaware of each other’s decisions, they both step away from their song writing.

Between 2000-2004 they both appear in different bands. There is even a few reunions of the band ‘Julia’. Late 2004, Martin decides to build a recording studio in one of his closets. The song writing starts from scratch and a whole new set of material – singer/songwriter style – takes its form around 2005/2006. During 2005-2008, Martin is performing sporadically on the singer/songwriting stages of New York and Stockholm.

In the autumn of 2008 Martin needs Ed’s consent to do an English version of the Julia song ‘Stilla’ (‘Holding Me High’). That simple phone call is the start of a new story. Two musicians, bound together by fate and separated by life’s circumstances, find each other again. MACHINE is born.

MACHINE exists in the fusion between Martin and Ed, like a creative intersection. It is its own being, an identity. It is the result of years of music experience and a lifetime of influences. It is a unique voice with a brilliant guitar player. It is a songwriting duo becoming one.

MACHINE isn’t Martin and Ed. Martin and Ed is MACHINE.