Behind the name Eremitapa we find Tim Pirfält, 19 years old, hailing from Jönköping. He has recently released the EP “Brev Till En Desillusionerad Vän” (“Letters to a disillusioned friend”). We meet a young man with a guitar, a somewhat uneven production and his search for an expression. And that’s what makes it real and honest too. Like it should be.

It’s mature without being premature, cautious but yet with attitude and he dares to experiment without overdoing it in his search. The EP, entirely in Swedish, is available on Eremitapa’s Bandcamp page. He also has a Facebook page.

En cyniker från början

A little more than a month ago, Sagabond released their new album “Easy Rhymes and Metaphors”. The band has now grown to a septet with a wide range of instruments: vocals, guitars, violin, cello, saxophone, piano, bass, drums.

If the recordings we wrote about before had a live-feeling in the production, this is more a skilled studio production. The folk vibes remain and are even amplified and altogether the album turns out to be a beautiful collection of five songs of indie folk-pop with nice melodies and arrangements where they really use all the instruments to colour the music.

You can listen to the album on Spotify or on Deezer and you can follow the band on Facebook. You can also find some tracks on Soundcloud. Here is “Echoes”:

Echoes

Daniel Rodin is alone with a guitar in his songs (accompanied by Johan Brännström, Heart-Sick Groans), and we end up in the early sixties’ folk where Dylan defined the genre. Daniel’s soft voice and playing, though, often make me think of Damien Rice.

In January he released the two-track single “Remarks”, which you can listen to on his Bandcamp page. Here’s the first track “I Guess We Are Free Now”, a song that really has caught me:

I Guess We Are Free Now

“Between Two States” is what Kallocain, hailing from Norrköping, has called their debut album. I get a feeling that this could have been one of Radiohead’s side projects that never was released, in the end of the nineties. At the same time I get vibes from the seventies, americana and singer/songwriter. It all blends into a mix where I’m thrown between softer tracks with beautiful acoustic guitars and tracks with dirty indie guitars, all in a common mellow atmosphere.

It’s an even and interesting album, where each song deserves attention, which made it hard to choose two songs you can listen to. The first track “Firecracker” below, is the track that differs most from the other songs on the album, with more pop vibes and synth sounds.

You can listen to “Between Two States” on Spotify or on Ge.tt. You can also find Kallocain on Facebook.

Firecracker
Genesis

The last time I wrote about Jamin Pirnia, his own name was the headline, and Jamin’ With Jamin was mentioned in the text as a new project. And it’s under the name Jamin’ With Jamin that he’s continued to perform, a project in constant change, musically and when it comes to the members, but with Jamin and his music as the core and heart of the project. For some time, though, some members have remained with the project, like for example Linda Sunesdotter on violin.

Finally in Autumn Jamin’ with Jamin released a studio production, the four track EP “Live Now”, produced by Jens Andersson (The Ark). And it’s quite a different sound on this recording than the ones Jamin has released earlier. Closer to the stage than the scene I would say, where the drama is more apparent in this mix of cabaret-folk-indie-disco-pop, most notably in the re-recorded Lipstick Killer.

In July last year I also had the opportunity to see Jamin’ With Jamin live, and it was a wonderful concert. There are few artists I know of, that can create such a feeling of togetherness between the artist and the audience, like Jamin. And the songs grow in such an intense way I think would be impossible to recreate in a studio, they experiment and change. A recommended experience.

Here are two songs with Jamin’ With Jamin. Listen to the EP on Spotify or on Bandcamp. You can also find Jamin’ With Jamin on Facebook.

Live Now
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