Author Archives: Pär Berglund
Annika was born in Sweden, grew up in New York and started working as a kindergarten teacher. She met Jon Neufeld, they married and together they started the pop duo Jonka. This year they’ve released their debut album “Slow and Steady Wins the Race”, and you can hear the song “The Nana Song” from the album, here below.
On Jonka’s site you can hear the rest of the songs from “Slow and Steady Wins the Race”.
Clemens, aka Claes Björnelius, is the topic today. It’s mostly about instrumental, beautiful music that has a nice peacefulness inside. Some parts symphonic, sometimes a feeling of Björn J:son Lindh-känsla or something like in the example below, “The Brick”, with Air-vibes. It feels many times grand, like it was taken from a movie.
He also presents several collaborations like for example with Michael Ehrnstén or with Karl in the Peter Gabriel-inspired “The Picture” below.
On Clemens site you can listen to his music and download it.
This week I thought I could start with The Broken Assembly and their EP “Emotional”, which was released in the beginning of the year. Lasse Thomasson has visited Meadowmusic before, with the rduo Strangers In Wonderland together with Åsa Girgensohn, and this time it’s also about a duo, now together with Helena Ahlbäck.
There’s a nice span between the songs which could be summarized with “The Broken Assembly makes it’s utmost to create something new and has firmly buried their strong roots in the underworld of the seventies and the eighties; where Patty Smith finally married Tom Petty to some AC/DC licks with Queen’s boy choir humming in the background” And all is glued together in the production and Helena’s colourful vocals.
Listen here to a couple of songs. The rest of the EP you can listen to and downloadon The Broken Assembly’s site.
Already the title of Chicagojazzen’s new album “Misantropi för nybörjare” (“Misanthropy for beginners”) challenges and plants questions. And the music lives up to this challenge. It’s instrumental, experimental, lo-fi, but basically beautiful creations with contagious melody hooks and rhythms.
It feels like someone has taken a perfectly carved statue with perfect lines, and in an artistic pathos used axe, hammer and saw on it, to make it more real. Or maybe just to challenge, or expose something. Listen here below in a couple of tracks and in a live recording by SVT.
Visit Chicagojazzen on Myspace.
Mi Mes Favorito Es Junio (live from Berwaldhallen):
Today it’s party time together with The Happy Hippo Family. Nice melodies and playfulness, ska, backbeat and pop and sometimes a dose of Madness. They have recently released a few songs to give a taste of their upcoming album. Here are two of them:
Anthem of the Universe
Undressed Melody
Meadow Music in swedish
Designed by
