TRINE TUXEN X WHEN SAINTS GO MACHINE GREATEST ESCAPE AMULET

We met with Trine Tuxen and When Saints Go Machine to explore the idea of transcendence - how jewelry and music can act as symbols of connection in a time defined by distance. Together, they have created Greatest Escape - an amulet for presence, protection, and movement.

HOW DO YOU ALL KNOW EACH OTHER? 

TT: Silas, Jonas and I have known each other since the first day of school at Øster Farimagsgade Skole in 1991. I met Nik later on, once they had founded WSGM.

You’ve known each other since first grade. What is it within your relationship that still keeps you connected - that allows you to create together after all these years?

WSGM: Somehow, we’re cut from the same cloth - sharing the same references, both aesthetically and emotionally, as well as a similar way of sensing time and the world around us. Throughout the process, there’s been a very natural understanding of where we were headed. It’s been less about defining what the final piece should be, and more about creating something together. In many ways, the amulet feels like a manifestation of the energy that exist between us.

When WSGM reached out, your first conversations revolved around presence, relation and time. What was it in their way of thinking that made you say yes?

TT: I had already said yes before we even met. Sometimes you just know when the energy is right. When Silas called and shared their first ideas, I felt an instant joy - the kind that comes from reconnecting with childhood friends and creating something together, rooted in trust and familiarity. I’ve been a fan of them from the very beginning, so there was never any doubt in my mind - I knew immediately that I wanted to be part of something that could support and amplify their new album. During our first meeting, we went into existential conversations about closeness, about what truly matters. Those conversations mean everything to me. Each of them is deeply reflective and unique, yet they challenge one another’s way of being in the world. I find that endlessly inspiring.

The collaboration with Trine and co-designer Camilla began through conversations on presence and connectedness. What did they understand about your universe that made you trust them with this symbolic creation?

WSGM: Of course, it was made easier by the fact that there’s a friendship that goes so far back, but there’s also a shared love for something soulful that springs from the desire to create something out of nothing. Trine also understands everything that has happened since the beginning of our shared journey in WSGM. We think she and Camilla also sensed our connection more than we ourselves usually do, simply because we’re around each other all the time.

If you had to describe the collaboration between the four of you in one word, what would it be?

From the very first conversation, we spoke about energy - about letting it carry the collaboration. Without it, there would be no connection. That energy has made every conversation vibrant, every meeting charged with meaning. I was left with a sense of pure joy - an almost electric excitement - as we prepared to launch the necklace and celebrate together in the store, not only our collaboration, but also having the possibility to physically host the release of their new album Greatest Escape.

Your new album and the amulet share the title Greatest Escape. What does “escaping the calculated” mean to you — as artists and as human beings?

WSGM: On a human level, for us it’s mostly about the dream of existing outside boundaries that we feel are becoming smaller and smaller. Everything is measured and optimized, and it feels like there’s less and less room to simply be human. Everything has to perform and that’s not the kind of life we want. Music should be played by people, for people. We are spiritually connected through what we create together, and we want to strengthen that space. We want to look each other in the eyes, feel each other’s light, not the dead blue of a screen.

The amulet is described as a portal — a shared breathing space. How do you interpret that in relation to The Greatest Escape?

TT: For me, Greatest Escape, on a deeply emotional level, speaks to that part of myself that sometimes longs to exist in a space without responsibility, without obligations, without expectations. A place and a time that reminds me of childhood - when time felt lighter, and play was filled with intuition, presence and togetherness. In my everyday life, as the wearer of the necklace, the amulet becomes a reminder to pause, to breathe a little deeper, to return to myself - to my own voice and my own rhythm.

Lapis Lazuli was the band’s choice, yet you made it the center of the amulet. What do you see in that stone that binds the three of them together? 

TT: I always choose stones intuitively - it often feels more like the stone chooses me. And I felt that was exactly what happened for them as well. Lapis Lazuli carries many beautiful qualities, but the ones I connect most to Silas, Jonas and Nikolaj are its power to guide you inward - to help you follow your own true direction. It also encourages honest and clear communication. It felt like the perfect core for a trio of individuals united by one shared center - a protective force, a quiet strength that holds them together.

If the amulet could truly take you somewhere — where would it lead you?

WSGM: The sea 

TT: The quiet 

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