I can hardly attempt to describe Patrik Torssons music. It doesn’t sound like anything I’ve listened to before and he also moves around a lot in the musical landscape.

Lately Patrik has been quite productive when it comes to releases. In the autumn he released the piano-minimalistic “Evaporation” and at the same time the dark and tense electronica-EP “Jag är himlavältaren” and now he’s about to release the album “At the Line of the Border” in the US, through the label Saint Marie Records.

He’s building strong ambiences with few ingredients and his voice enters like a low-voiced, almost whispered comment to the theme, even if he sometimes surprise me with a melodic choir in the middle of it all. Quite special. You can listen to these releases on his Bandcamp page.

Here’s the title track from the EP “Jag är himlavältaren”:

Jag är himlavältaren

A little more than a year ago Daniel Jönsson, guitarist in Emerald Park, released a solo album under the name Danish Daycare. Last month the singer in the same band, Tobias Borelius, released his debut album, “Du känner mig för väl, farväl”, a project that he’s been working on for a couple of years.

And we get to hear Tobias in a completely new context; he’s singing in Swedish and the sound is created with analogue synth sounds, assisted by acoustic guitars and piano, a sound created together with the producer Carl Granberg.

The sound is influenced by Adolphsson & Falk, Olle Ljungström, Familjen and Kent but I don’t feel any direct paralells; it feels rather special and personal where you get close to Tobias. Maybe it gets even more personal when someone sings in their own language in his own dialect like in this case.

There are eight tracks, with quite some variation, on this album which gets better and better each time I listen. You can listen to it on Spotify or on Tobias Borelius’ Bandcamp page. You can follow Tobias on his Facebook page and also of course on Emerald Park’s page.

Hiro

Konträr is a solo project by Linus Sundin Eriksson. I’d say it’s about jazz, where electro jazz meets acoustic, hammond and other intruments. It’s beautifully combined and creates a special atmosphere.

All the names of the songs have two titles like those below: “Satan/Näcken, “Framåt/bakåt” (“Forwards/Backwards”), which is also clearly reflected in the songs.

You can listen to more tracks onKonträr’s Myspace page.

Satan/Näcken
Framåt/bakåt

On New Years Eve the duo Lilla Sällskapet released their two track debut single “Genova”. 10 more songs are underway, which I suspect will be the content of a debut album coming up later this year.

The duo is described as a techno lover meeting up with an eighties’ nostalgic. And the eighties nostalgia is hard to miss in these synth pop-sounding songs, both of them in Swedish.

Here below you can listen to the b-side “Snart”, which I like the best. You can find Lilla Sällskapet on Facebook, on Spotify and on Youtube.

Snart

The duo Old Amica had a hard time finding continuity in their collaboration as they lived in different places in Sweden during years. Now one of them lives in Umeå and the other in Stockholm, but in 2010 they fit the pieces together and found a way of working together and producing music by sending files over the net.

In spring the debut EP was released and in November the second EP “For a Second EP”. The last EP contains seven tracks where they blend singer-songwriter with electronica, experimentation with tradition. All in a mellow and bare ambience.

You can listen to the entire EP on Old Amica’s site.

Figuring Out
Moon