Author Archives: Pär Berglund
Baron Bane are back with their first release since “Love.Cure.All” last year, the single “Sordid Eyes”. A song where they mix different influences in a cool way. Monster Magnet-guitars that’s interwoven with electronica and it all lifts in a floating pop chorus with some grunge vibes.
Meet Baron Bane on Facebook.
Anna Åhman is Birgit Bidder as a solo artist, and this August her debut album “The Life Home”, will be released.
And a really good album it is, with large span of styles and moods. The two first songs “The Life Home” and “Parking Lot Paradise” are that kind of pop songs that’s impossible to ignore and repeat themselves in your mind with their melody hooks.
After that she exhibit a rich gallery from grand orchestral pop to intimate ballads, all sung with a voice that has it’s own character and luster; a somewhat dark blues-souly voice with stains of both attitude and softness.
Here are two songs from “The Life Home”:
Parking Lot Paradise:
Listen more to Birgit Bidder on her site or on Myspace.
A year and a half ago I wrote a post on Brian Kramer and his live album from Club Stampen. This time, though, he’s all alone. It’s just about Brian, his acoustic guitar(s) and you. As close and intimate as it gets.
He sneaks away into the Mississippi delta, he takes a tour to Amsterdam, he let the blues take a stroll along childhood lanes and relationships and even have a look at an old pocket watch. It’s naked and straight on and no excessive outbreaks. And just like with the other album, I feel a nice mellow warmth, and especially in the more melodic storytelling songs, I get a feeling of John Hiatt, who also have a special way of spreading warmth around him.
Here are two tracks from “Myself and Mine”:
Journey to the Delta
My Precious Stone
You can find Brian Kramer on his Myspace page and on his site
In May Degrees released the EP “Pt III”, and also the predecessors, accordingly named “Pt II” and “Pt I”, was made available on the net.
Basically it’s about a warm, melodious electronica; synth pop with some strokes of indie with messy guitars. Degrees consists of the duo Mikael Jacobson and Rickard Folke, both hailing from the deep forests around Tranås, where they formed Degrees in 2008.
You can listen to their EP:s on their Bandcamp page and also visit them on their site. Here are two tracks from “Pt III”:
I seldom write about tours in this blog, usually it’s about new releases and new songs. Today, though, I intend to do both.
It’s about Oskar Gyllenhammar and his tour “100 gigs 100 days”, which he started the 17th of May. Just before that he also released a single, a first taste of an upcoming album this fall. You can listen to the song, “Inga roller och manér”, here below.
The tour “100 gigs 100 days” started in the end of May with a number of gigs in Stockholm, and it’s not hard to understand from the name of the tour, that it’s about doing a gig each day until the 24th of August. But it doesn’t stop there; the ambition is to visit each region in Sweden and also visit the neighbouring countries Norway, Denmark and Finland, at least once.
On top of this, Oskar is also engaged to entertain at Café August in Hudiksvall each Thursday during summer. The gigs so far has been quite a variation, from club concerts, to festival gigs, to improvised park concerts.
This fun trip and it’s story is told on a special site for this tour, with film clips, photos and stories. If you want him to come and play, you can contact him on this site. (in Swedish though)
Read more about Oskar on his site (in Swedish).
Inga roller och manér (acoustic):
Meadow Music in swedish
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