“One Last Time” (Hess Is More feat. Okay Kaya) received the Danish Film Academy’s ROBERT Award as Best Original Song. The song was written by Kaya Wilkins and Mikkel Hess for Jonas Arnby’s beautiful movie “Suicide Tourist” (coming soon to a cinema / streaming service near you). Full score by Mikkel Hess / Care Of Music.

Thank you Jonas Alexander Arnby for your trust and fearless guidance! Also thanks to Johan & Tormod at UHØRT for making the song feel so at home inside the movie. And special thanks to studio wizards David Mason Rasmus Bille Bahncke William Andrew Raposo and the entire Hess Is More live ensemble for always supplying tips, tricks, guidance, consulting, thoughts, constructive criticism, heart and soul.

‘Cleverly stylized dramedy’ (Variety quote 2019) from director Frederikke Aspock hits all the right buttons both at festivals, with critics and at the box office. With help from Mikkel Hess on drums and Jeffrey Ziegler on cello, Rasmus Bille Bahncke / Care Of Music helms full score and all music supervision for this moving feature length prison drama.

Nordic TV drama series ’Norskov’ is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. We did music supervision for all 10 episodes which entailed partly creating, curating and clearing all source music. This Is Care Of’s Rasmus Bille Bahncke also co-wrote and co -produced the main title song with multi talented artist ‘Ohland’ Nanna Oland Fabricius and international score composer super star Kristian Eidnes setting the tone for the gripping Norskov universe. Watch the full title sequence here.

New music video collaboration HESS IS MORE x HENRIK VIBSKOV : “80 YEARS” premieres via NOWNESS.

Also featured via HYPEBEAST.

Enjoy!

Here is a little piece our friends from M-Audio did about our process, tools and work environment..

[ARTIST INTERVIEW]

We visit Mikkel Hess and Rasmus Bille Bahncke from the Hess Is More band at their This Is Care Of music studio on Broadway in NYC. We jam, learn about their music creation process, listen to their latest album and talk about our latest Code Series keyboards: www.m-audio.com/code

New Video for Bearsong by Hess Is More premieres at Nowness. Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby, featuring dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet. Check the feature via Nowness HERE.

Created and released in celebration of “Bearsong / Primate” EP – out now on Gomma Records. (Remixes featuring Lorna Dune, Polyester & Dimitri from Paris coming right up).

Frederikke Aspock’s feature film ‘Rosita’ takes home Best Director at Moscow Film Festival 2015. The film’s title song ‘Got Me Good’ also got nominated for Best Original Song at the Danish industry Film & TV Robert Awards 2015. ‘Got Me Good’ has vocals from Lynval Golding of The Specials, guitars by Rune Funch and is written and produced by This Is Care Of’s Rasmus Bille Bahncke and Mikkel Hess. Full music score, music supervision and trailer music by Rasmus Bille Bahncke.

“Try not to wake up the bear”

We are very excited to take part in the development of Care Of’s Rasmus Bille Bahncke‘s own Volunteeer project. This epic tune has made it’s way onto global renewable energy campaign ‘A Race We Must Win’ a combined messaging strategy leading up to the COP21 international climate change conference in Paris spearheaded by wind turbine manufacturer Vestas. Watch here the undertaking of Rasmus performing the song live with a 60 piece childrens choir, as part of an ‘on water flashmob’ stunt during the Volvo Ocean Race starting sequence in Cape Town, South Africa. Parts of the stunt went live on ESPN 2  – Cover artwork by NR2154.

The song is available on all digital music platforms (Spotify/Apple Music etc) via Care Of Music’s label & distribution arm powered by The Orchard.

News from Hessismore, presented by This Is Care Of & Concierge Records.

Find the story from Brooklyn Vegan here.

Photos by Peter Funch

The new Hessismore album is out now, released by This Is Care Of in collaboration with Concierge Records.

Vinyl, CD, Lossless Digital Download and Sheet Music available through the band webstore at www.hessismore.com

This is the first album to feature the full transatlantic ensemble – recorded mostly live to tape at Midnight Sun Studio in Greenpoint. The repertoire was assembled during Hessismore’s residency at the Clocktower Gallery, and somehow this does not sound like any other record we know of.

We hope you will enjoy the music – and the terrific artwork created by NR2154

“When Animals Dream”, debut feature film by director Jonas Arnby with original musical score by Mikkel Hess is selected for the prestigious Critics Week Lineup at Cannes Film Festival 2014. Congratulations to Jonas and everyone on the team… Hurra!

The music was composed and produced at This Is Care Of’s New York Studio, integrating long distance session recordings of Prague Symphony Orchestra with pump organ and other elements.

Did you hear the new acoustic trio album from Hess / AC / Hess Spacelab ?

Hess Is More presents 3 nights of live music at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn. Preview by Brooklyn Vegan here. Poster series by Jacob Wildschiødtz / NR2154.

This Is Care Of recently released the debut album “Example One” from Listening Center. Now the great UK based label Ghostbox features Listening Center on vinyl with a brand new track Titoli + Pye Corner Audio remix of “Town of Tomorrow”. Yes Sir Mason!

The largest Danish newspaper on Facebook ‘Dagbladet Information’ runs story on creative collective ‘This Is Care Of’. The article is based on an interview with Martin Burcharth at Clocktower Gallery NYC, May 2013. (Text in Danish) :  >>http://www.information.dk/462458

The Sun Also Rises features two sets of songs: Five obscure tracks of African origin, recorded between the early ’80s and this past year, alongside five reinterpretations by artists drawn from the Scandinavian dance-music world. The album was initiated by Quartz+Co to create a musical reflection of its activities in Africa, where the company, which is based in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, has worked extensively to aid local entrepreneurship. To create the album, Quartz+Co called upon the services of This Is Care Of, a multimedia arts collective centered around the musicians Rasmus Bille Bahncke and Mikkel Hess and the designer Jacob Wildschioedtz—all Danish natives living in New York City. Unearthing the songs proved no small task. As Hess notes, “It was especially important to find songs that were, basically, the most bad-ass things we had heard in a long time.” – J. Ruttenberg Dec 3rd 2012, New York >> www.thesunalsorises.info

Congratulations to Sound of Copenhagen – Volume 10 is out now!

We are proud to have contributed with 2 tracks from This Is Care Of. Theodor Clausen’s remix of “Call for Change” (Hess Is More feat. Nomi Ruiz) and Willie Mays’ remix of “Portable Electronic Musical Instrument” (Listening Center).