Exhadley is a duo consisting of Jörgen Andersson and Peter Fransson. I feel that words are not enough when I try to explain their music. Or maybe music experiences is a better phrase. With the help of electronics and synths and other instruments, they create pieces of musical art, which sometimes give me a psychadelia feeling, but is very varying. And that makes it even more interesting for me. It’s like going on a discovery adventure, and you’ll never know what’s around the corner.
Try for yourself here in a couple of tracks. You will find Exhadley on Myspace if you’d like to listen more. You can also find Jörgen Andersson under the name Nachdenken and Peter Fransson as Retep Folo, where you also will discover som interesting music.
I guess that New Years Day is the slowest day during the whole year for most people. At least it is for me, so I can’t really say that the new year begin with a flying start. But maybe, it’s just what we need; a day of quiet afterthought, or maybe no thoughts at all, a few moments of eternal stillness before life starts pulsating again, faster and faster.
Maybe I See, (Niklas Björkman is his real name) can provide us with a soundtrack for today. Music that explores ambiences of beauty and darkness. Still but also with pulse. Something that creates images in my mind and with a touch of eastern mystique.
After listening to Best-of Christmas albums too many times, too many Christmases, I thought it would be nice to find some new favourites. And why not start looking among all the artists we have presented here at Meadowmusic?
So, here’s a collection of new christmas songs, and I hope that you too will find some songs that gives you that extra Christmas atmosphere.
Merry Christmas!
ad dios, the masters of ambience have created their own version of an old Christmas carol. On their site you can also download the wav-file of the song and a cover, so that you create your own Christmas gift. Once In Royal David’s City
Sol Wikström is Sol Skugga and has just released her new album “Gardenia”. And her name Sol Skugga (Sun Shadow) catches what I feel most strongly about in the music of “Gardenia: the contrasts. Between the beautiful and the disturbing, between the old and the new, between the grand and the low-voiced.
Overall it feels beautifully dark with Sol’s classical voice pouring like a clear trickle through the mellow ambience, whether it’s a folk-inspired piece or a more dense goth-inspired music. The electronica forms the base of the music, but a great interplay with foremost brilliant guitars and violins creates nice contrasts.
You should go and visit Sol Skugga’s site where you can listen to all the tracks of “Gardenia” and read more about her. Sol Skugga is also on Myspace.
Here you have the two first tracks from the album and the video for “Empty Street”.
Obliq is an exciting band from Göteborg, and it’s rather hard to compare them directly with other bands. If I would try to describe them somehow I would say that it’s the melancholy from Kent that meets Radiohead with a little of Broder Daniel and upon this some electronica. The Radiohead -likeness is helped also by the similarities between the vocals of the singer Anders Lagerfors and Thom Yorke.
It’s dreamy and mellow, interesting melodies and songs that sometimes breaks out in grand Coldplay-like sceneries.
Last spring they released their debut album “Antenna” (Conelove Records, Thomason Sounds), from where the tracks below come. This autumn they have recorded a new single, produced by Matt Kent (Massive Attack, Neneh Cherry, Portishead et al) which will be released in February next year. And I’m happy to tell you that they have promised to share the single with us here at Meadowmusic when it’s ready. After the single release awaits a tour around Europe.
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