Author Archives: Pär Berglund
In These Woods have created a really nice sound on their debut EP, which was released in December. It’s indie rock, 5 songs with big lush guitars, sweeping guitar riffs and good melodies. There’s a great drive in the songs that just sweep me right into the music. A band that will be interesting to follow in the future.
Listen to the EP on Spotify or on Bandcamp. You can follow the band on their Facebook page or on Myspace.
Konträr is a solo project by Linus Sundin Eriksson. I’d say it’s about jazz, where electro jazz meets acoustic, hammond and other intruments. It’s beautifully combined and creates a special atmosphere.
All the names of the songs have two titles like those below: “Satan/Näcken, “Framåt/bakåt” (“Forwards/Backwards”), which is also clearly reflected in the songs.
You can listen to more tracks onKonträr’s Myspace page.
Shotgun Crackers is probably the closest we have ever come to having a house band here on Meadowmusic. They even released an EP on the blog a while ago. Now they are out with their album debut.
And the album gives us 8 tracks of their patented high-energetic, uplifting indie pop. If you’ve listened to them before you will probably recognize four of the songs from before, but now in new versions and with a new production.
Right now they are preparing a big party at Teatern in their hometown Norrtälje where they are playing on the 25th of February.
You can listen to the album on Spotify or on Shotgun Crackers’ Bandcamp page. You can meet the band on their site and on Facebook.
Blood, Tears and Dreams
Young Corleone
The last time I wrote about Jamin Pirnia, his own name was the headline, and Jamin’ With Jamin was mentioned in the text as a new project. And it’s under the name Jamin’ With Jamin that he’s continued to perform, a project in constant change, musically and when it comes to the members, but with Jamin and his music as the core and heart of the project. For some time, though, some members have remained with the project, like for example Linda Sunesdotter on violin.
Finally in Autumn Jamin’ with Jamin released a studio production, the four track EP “Live Now”, produced by Jens Andersson (The Ark). And it’s quite a different sound on this recording than the ones Jamin has released earlier. Closer to the stage than the scene I would say, where the drama is more apparent in this mix of cabaret-folk-indie-disco-pop, most notably in the re-recorded Lipstick Killer.
In July last year I also had the opportunity to see Jamin’ With Jamin live, and it was a wonderful concert. There are few artists I know of, that can create such a feeling of togetherness between the artist and the audience, like Jamin. And the songs grow in such an intense way I think would be impossible to recreate in a studio, they experiment and change. A recommended experience.
Here are two songs with Jamin’ With Jamin. Listen to the EP on Spotify or on Bandcamp. You can also find Jamin’ With Jamin on Facebook.
The duo Mutual Friends released the album “The Cabin” in the autumn. 10 beautiful tracks with folk music, americana on the border to country, acoustic and coloured with mandolin, banjo and harmonica.
The vocals feel very special with a dark voice that sort of marks the entire atmosphere of the music and gives it a more mature feeling, like if Johnny Cash would join in anytime, even if the style maybe lies more in outskirts of his territories.
You can listen to “The Cabin” on Spotify. I’m afraid that I haven’t found any other page with the band’s music, besides the ordinary 30-s snippets on for example Itunes and Amazon. The band also has a Facebook page.
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