Sarah and Ted, the blood and bones of A Nighthawk, found it was high time to challenge their own ideas of what making music was all about. Both play and played in touring, recording, releasing bands (Sarah in Dag för Dag, Ted in Shout Out Louds), both had left the edgy, itchy days of their 20s behind, both still had burning bellies for creating. Sarah for the music and accompanying writing – Ted for the music and accompanying imagery. And so when the seemingly never-to-arrive thaw finally graced their Scandinavian headquarters with its rosy cheeks in spring 2011, they hit the drawing boards and created A Nighthawk. As Mary Shelley had once widdled away at her Frankenstein, Sarah and Ted carved away at the wings of A Nighthawk.

A Nighthawk will release 2 EPs every year. The trappings of the album cycle, with its manic-depressive ups and downs, to-ings and fro-ings, will be left to others. Maybe one EP will include a single 20-minute track, while the next has six 3-minute pop songs. The first EP – Until I Faltered I Wasn't Free – was recorded in November 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden, with Peder Mannerfelt. Tapping into Peder’s electronic genius, this first release is tapered with blips and bleeps and a machine for a drummer, something new for both these old cats. But listen here, this has not written the rulebook for A Nighthawk. While this first EP – their virgin release – is very dear to their hearts, A Nighthawk retains its predatory nature to hunt out just what it needs when the musical moment comes a-callin’, and will use as many or as few instruments, sounds, styles and musicians to reach their own perfection. 

A Nighthawk will record with a variety of producers, who will each arrive with their own bag full of private tricks, styles and magic. Patterns will emerge, of course, as the core of A Nighthawk remains the same, yet special guests will be invited to ebb and flow upon the final sounds. The second EP, for example, includes a real-live drummer and a Swedish-American producing duo, and was produced in Stockholm in July at the Ingrid studio. 

While the music is being produced, Ted spins out a video chapter for the songs which fill his mind with moving imagery, complimenting the tunes with the "gimme more gimme more" video work he is known for. And then there is the artwork, website and general band design, for what you see most certainly influences what you hear. And A Nighthawk does not take this lightly. So in waltzes Raffaele, the London member of A Nighthawk, the third party to this all, the feathers atop them nighthawk blood and bones. Having known Sarah for years and years, and Ted for just a few less years than all those other years, Raffaele comprehends. He just does. And thus puts the intangible down on vinyl packaging, web material, anything visual besides the videos. And as the third member, Raffaele is permanent, thus completing the perfect circle. A Nighthawk – Sarah, Ted and Raffaele – are sticking together, all blood, bones and feathers. No best-by date, no need to feel the pulse of the industry to know what to produce next, no burning desire to sell sell sell. What comes is already coming…