Real name: Morten Holm Pettersen

Composer and musician from Kråkerøy, Norway

MTM MUSIC is proud to announce the signing of Morten Holm and please read his incredible story:

Morten Holm, a young Norwegian, takes a vacation in Portugal to stay in a training camp. As a sprinter, he wants to reach Norways Top 5 on the 100 m and 200 m tracks. A food poisoning, or an allergic reaction of sime kind - nobody knows which - puts a tragic end to this career. For thirteen long years, constant fever, and many other complications force him to stay in bed. The doctors are completely at a loss; nobody can help him. He loses all contact to the rest of the world, and to all of his friends, of which only three stay with him. Still, he has his parents and his sisters to help him.

One day it becomes obvious to him, at last, that he needs to do something to bring back meaning to life. So he starts writing songs, first without musical instruments, but soon after he buys himself a keyboard, which he can place on his bed to play the tunes, that come to his mind. One of these songs he sends to a musician, who makes a demo version of it. When hearing this song for the first time, Morten takes such a strong motivation from it, that soon he is getting a little better. After thirteen years, he goes out into the sun for the first time again, looks at nature, listens to it, and starts to write wonderful songs. Knowing that the cold time of year will force him to stay indoors again, he contacts producer David Johansen, who likes the material imediately; they soon start to look for musicians to record a CD of Morten's songs. They find some great local musicians, in addition to Canadian Dave Evans.

Morten himself says he will never forget that warm summer in the studio, which he considers the best time of his life. The songs from this wonderful Westcoast album might have been written by more famous colleagues as the EAGLES, TOTO, AMERICA, or even by some BritPop heroes.
"Maybe you'll understand, while listen to this record, how special this CD is for me. And I hope I can inspire some of you out there to fight on and to look for roads never traveled. Finally, I am very happy that MTM Music believes in me and my songs. I hope you will enjoy!"

The release is scheduled for August the 18th.