From the Malmö/Helsingborg band Tic a rock energy beam, hard to avoid, is delivered. With the singer Emma in the front they give us a raw, unpolished rock with garage feeling but with a hard rock heaviness. This is probably best experienced live, but I think they have managed to impregnate the recordings, which you can listen to below, with a whole lot of energy.

If you like Tic you can visit them on their Myspace page. Here are two songs to listen to and download:

Red Light
Not You

Today we continue with more electronica, but this time of a more ambient kind. Dr. Sounds is the artist, he has released a number of albums and you can listen to and download some of them on his Jamendo page. The latest album, an extended version of “Aquasphere”, is a real mastodon with 31 tracks and over 6 hours of music.

It’s minimalistic and ambient, but with different characteristics between the albums. From “Aeroball III”, which explores melodies and sounds and feels more experimental, to “Aquasphere” which is truly ambient in it’s nature with beautiful and peaceful soundscapes.

It’s also interesting when Dr. Sounds tells us about the healing power of this type of music. And then in the context of helping children with concentration difficulties, where there have been studies which indicates that continuos sounds of low volume can help children with ADHD to focus. Since he’s been one of those children himself he writes about this on his site, how the music has helped him to concentrate better.

Here you can listen to a couple of tracks, “Aquamon” from “Aeroball III” and “Fundamentals of Sexuality” from “Aquasphere”:

Aquamon
Fundamentals of Sexuality

Today will be electronica day here on Meadowmusic, together with Anto. It’s about dance and like he describes it:

“Crazy electro music combined with nostalgic sounds. Arcadegame melodies or 80’s synth-pop sounds.. It’s like travelling back in time but also into the future at the same time so the music touches you in many different ways”.

Anto produces his own instrumental dance tracks but also quite a few remixes, as he often is contacted by other artists about remixes. Especially I liked his remix of “Taken”, a song by the german indie-electronica band Digitalism, where the vocals mixed with Anto’s disco-heavy music makes a really cool combination.

You can listen more to Anto on Myspace and on Facebook.

Here is his own “Fantasy” and also the remix of Digitalism’s “Taken Away”:

Digitalism – Taken Away (Anto remix)
Fantasy

That I Am You We Are is different from most bands I’ve heard, is clear to me already after a minute or so in the first song “Love Song For the Mob”, from their EP “Masquerade”. An oriental-inspired melody played by transverse flute and accordion turns into something more folkish and  Phoenix and Anahitas voices give the song a somwhat different character.

The five songs on “Masquerade” are quite different from each other, where they vary the instrument set from song to song. They experiment with flutes, piano, accordion, guitars, djembe, trumpet and no set seem to be the same as the other. I can’t help thinking about that I’m listening to a mini musical, where the scene changes from song to song.

It’s different and interesting. You can listen for yourself below to the track “Love Song For the Mob”. On their Myspace page you can find more songs from “Masquerade”.

Love Song For the Mob

It just hit me how few of the artists I present here on Meadowmusic that actually sing in Swedish. After all, the purpose of the blog is to present new Swedish music, but I guess that’s more or less how it is on the Swedish music scene today. If that’s good or bad I’ll let you decide for yourself.

But when I listen to the indie-soul, sung in Swedish, from År & Dar, as a Swede, I definitely feel closer to the music. There’s nothing in the way and the words find their way inside me directly. This is not about soul from a glamorous scene, it’s soul with rolled upp sleeves, which walks beside me as I travel under the cold and grey November skies. And it feels a little lighter, a little bit warmer.

Adam Pålsson’s voice is made for this. It’s earthbound, unpolished and soulful, and lifts the music to another level. Listen for yourself here below where you’ll find two videos and the song “Vad blir det av oss” (“What becomes of us?), which you can listen to and download.

You can find År & Dar on their Myspace page.

Vad blir det av oss:

Har du tröttnat än:

Vad blir det av oss?