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Oh Land Collaborating With John Legend and Pharrell -- Exclusive Video

December 3rd 2010 2:25PM


Gino DePinto, AOL


In Oh Land's song 'White Nights,' the lyric "There's no silence/I'll keep following the sirens" can be taken quite literally. When the singer -- who moved to Brooklyn from Copenhagen earlier this year -- stopped by Spinner's headquarters to treat the staff to a private performance, she explained that the New York state of mind has left her in a creative frenzy.

"When I moved here in January, I just felt like I couldn't sleep because I didn't want to miss a second," Oh Land,
aka Nanna Fabricius, told Spinner. "I stayed up all the time and worked all the time and was always inspired by sirens, the noise of New York. I found my stillness in the storm."

As of late, Oh Land
has released an EP and played several shows around the city. After performing the EP tracks 'White Nights,' 'Sun of a Gun' and 'Rainbow' in Spinner's office, she revealed that she's also been mingling with some pretty impressive musical peers: Florence Welch, whom she met at a recent concert, as well as John Legend and Pharrell, both of whom she's actually written songs with.

"They're not recorded yet, but we're gonna do it very soon, I hope," Oh Land said of her collaboration with Legend. "I have very different ways of writing, but normally I write with little electronic sounds, on instruments like I'm playing now. But John Legend is such a brilliant pianist, so we just wrote the whole song around the piano. It'll be interesting to put that into production."

"I also recently wrote a song with Pharrell as well, in Miami," she added. "That song, I just can't wait to get it
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