“I Will Do It” (Footprint Records) is the name of Patrick Rydman’s debut album. It’s an album with variation with ingredients from different styles, but the base is a jazz-pop, where we we find stars from before like Tony Bennett and younger ones like Harry Connick jr, Jamie Cullum and Diana Krall. What Patrick presents is soft with a tender melancholy and I find him in the smoky jazz club rather than the big arena.

With the jazz hat on, the album shows a nice blend of styles; from blues, pop, jazz to soul. Melodies faithful to the genres and also more experimental ones. I suggest that you listen to more songs from “I Will Do It” on Patrick Rydman’s Myspace page. If you want to buy the CD, it’s available at Footprint Records.

Listen to two smooth tracks from the album:

Only the Devil
Still Alive

It fits perfectly well to start a Sunday in October to listen to some feelgood music. Because that’s exactly what the duo Welkin & the Jangler offers. Nice laidback songs, where my thoughts sometimes wanders away to warm summer nights, relaxation and blue oceans. Two voices, one darker and one brighter, which both have nice tones, and first of all complement eachother perfectly.

The beautiful harmonies and the rhythmic catchy choruses makes me sometimes think of Simon & Garfunkel. But in general they move more to the soul areas of pop music. It’s acoustic with great guitar play, and they surprise sometimes by adding strings and brass.

You can listen to four songs here, download if you like. Visit Welkin & the Jangler on their Myspace page or their site. On their site you also buy their records.

Volvo
Juliet Juliet Juliet
My Imagination
Sunny Side Up

Sara Culler feels urgent in what she do. She resides there somewhere between sparkling lofi electronica and acoustic music with a lot of variation. There is a nice tension in her music and her voice maybe is the main instrument to create this feeling. It’s emotional and sometimes she breaks out in outbursts that remind me about Sinead O’Connor, which catch my attention even more.

Sara has released a number of EP:s before, and she is now working on a split EP together with her husband David Fridlund (David & the Citizens), to be released this autumn.

On Sara Cullers site you can listen to and download her music and buy her EP:s. Below you can listen to “Are You Sleeping” from the EP “Miss Takes – Light the Night!”, “At Least Like Melissa” from “wolflike they are” and a brilliant coven that breathes some life into Madonnas “Who’s That Girl?”

Are You Sleeping
At Least Like Melissa
Who’s That Girl?

Sara Culler is also on Myspace

This is the hundredth post on this blog. It means that we so far have presented ninetynine artists, songwriters and producers. We thought of celebrating this by having a mini cavalcade with songs from some of the artists we have reviewed. Many of these songs are exclusive for download only here on Meadowmusic, and I hope that they are shared with people all over the world if you as a visitor like the songs.

We, here on Meadowmusic, are overwhelmed by all the support we have received since we started in the beginning of July. We started this because it felt like we were carrying around a secret that we just had to share with the world. And the secret was that there’s so much fantastic Swedish music, that seldom is played on the radio or other mainstream channels. And that this music is just as good, well, in fact much better than what is heard there. Well, it’s not a secret anymore, is it?

First we would like to thank you as a visitor, because you come here and listen to the music. Every visit, every time you listen, every recommendation to a friend, every mention of what you hear contributes to the promotion of the artists and their music, and to the support of this blog.
Thank you for all mail and tips and also for the communication with the artists.

We also would like to thank all the artists that support us. And I don’t mean only the artists that we have presented here, but also all of you that have contacted us, telling us that what we do is important and great. Thank you!

Below you’ll find some extra songs with artists from earlier posts. (Click on the artist’s name to go to the post about the artist.)

Pär Edwardson in a fantastic song about a girl with huge hair
The Girl With the Huge Hair

Aurgunn, the poet, on bliss
Saligheten

Lasse Söhr has produced Isak Strand in this song
The Lie

Maini Sorri sings about Goose-Liisa
Hanhi-Liisa

Angelica wishes that you let her enter
Let Me In

Chris Michols wants to go home
I Wanna Go Home

Listen to Jamin Pirnia in a collaboration with Nihad Tule
Are You Happy Now?

Andreas Lundgren is so cool
Sunset-lover

Some Kind of Rubus sings about Goula, “no one could fool’er”
Goula

Rock with Bodies
Loser

And 100 % energy with The Rumble
The Long Run

Martin Bentancourt, whom, together with David Silva, gave the FRA debate some groove this summer, with his hit “Första generationens svenne”
Första generationens svenne

Last but not least the cool Zed Is Dead
Soul Pollution

I think that we’ll be hearing about Peter Dahlin a lot more in the future. He presents a pleasant indie pop with strong melodies and on top of this his bright, sensitive voice. When I listen to his earlier EP “Out In the Snow” (Peter Dahlin and Sleeping Beauty, 2005), it reminds me a lot of the light and happy feeling from the music of Belle & Sebastian.

Underway is a split EP together with Thor Rutgersson, to be released in the first half of 2009. Another interesting project that Peter is involved in, is the live club MaydaySticky. He runs this together with Mattias Dristig since 2004, and it all takes place in Sticky Fingers in Göteborg. Once a month four independent artists performs, and the selection of artists is based on different themes for each club night.

Out In the Snow:

You can listen to two songs here, where “Det snurrar i min skalle” (a cover of a song by Familjen) is a collaboration with Annelie, whom we presented a few weeks ago here on Meadowmusic.

Chance to Dance
Det snurrar i min skalle

Visit Peter Dahlin on Myspace