Melodic ambient for daydreamers. That’s what Ingemar Holmlid calls the music he creates under the artist name Imi Fal. He says that he started writing these songs as a reaction to all the stress and press we live in, to be able to relax with the help of the music and maybe find a calmer, more creative state of mind. And relaxing it is; there is no other way to embrace this but to calm down and relax. He released the debut album in Spring, “Follow No Path”, from which you can hear two tracks here below, and on his Soundcloud-sida he’s frequently posting new songs.
Min Stora Sorg, or Ann-Sofie Lundin which is her real name, is back with a new single and video, “Jag står kvar”. It was a year ago I wrote about her wonderful debut EP, and now she’s underway with her first full length album, which is coming out in the beginning of 2014. The video below is created by John Artur.
Here’s a song by Jon Mårtensson, who creates music which he calls melancholic field recording-hop. This means that he records sounds out in the field, turns them into rhythms and tones, and then combines them with electronica into compositions and songs. Listen here in the new track “Katolsk magnetism” (“Catholic Magnetism”).
Tikkle Me started out as a duo a few years ago by Frida Herchenröther and Karin Taberman, and blog followers with a good memory may remember Frida from the electro pop band Spectroscope, which we wrote about before. The last years the duo has expanded into a shifting collective, adding dancers, choirs and others, who on the live concerts interweaves dance, projections and art, which they describe as more of a performance art show than just a music concert.
The studio reordings have also grown, if I compare with their debut album from 2010, which you can hear on their recently released singles “Niagara” and “Time to Act”. Here they show a beautiful, powerful orchestral pop, which reminds me more than once of Kate Bush. These songs are produced by Niels Nielsen and the video to “Niagara” is directed by Johan F. Wahlberg.
During the last year Hanna Järver has been a member of the bands Gazebo Gathering and Reversin, both from Stockholm, but in Spring she started working on her own solo project. A first taste of what it’s about can be heard on the new EP “Smutsen” (“The Dirt”) with it’s three songs. It’s a minimalistic soulful electro pop in Swedish, but yet so ambient and captivating, fragile and beautiful. Right now she’s in Budapest, together with the producer Norbert Lukacs, to write and record more material. During winter she will return to Stockholm to play live with her band.
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