I’m starting this week with some dreamy, longing electro soul from Silverarken with the song “Dancing to the Thought of You”. This northern band is now recording their first full length album, which is scheduled for release this spring.
Silverarken on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud
Here’s a soul pop song with a nice groove from Temu in collaboration with the rapper Peacefull James and the producer Mighty Beats, a Swedish-American-Danish-Ugandian collaboration you could call it. Temu is a singer and a dancer born in the US but who moved to Malmö in the south of Sweden. He found his two partners right across the channel in Denmark.
Temu on Facebook – on Spotify
Victoria Moralez is a new acquaintance for me. She has released the albums “Days and Seasons” and “Translucent” before and as a build-up for the next album she has released two EP:s, the latest one the four-track EP “Game of Fear”.
She moves effortlessly between styles from song to song and mixes influences within the songs, and it’s hard to catch her with a few words. The EP has a retro feeling with seventies-guitars, soul and funk, which she blends with jazz vibes and a sensation of what you could call world music. The last mentioned is especially obvious in the last song “Divide Me In Two”, a spoken word-song accompanied with a banjo in a language I can’t understand. Multifaceted, personal, interesting and if you add the earlier R’nB-fragrant EP “For Eternity” I can imagine that the upcoming album will show us more hues of Victoria.
Victoria Moralez’ site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp
Last year I wrote about Antonia Vai and told you about that she was working on her debut album. Now that work is done and she has released not only one but two albums at the same time, collecting 25 of her songs. The first album “Lovers and Prophet” is more consistent in the sound and themes, while the second one, “Dirt From When the Earth Was Flat” is a collection of home recordings and varies more in style and sound, and which shows some of her creative span.
I think it’s just as enjoyable to listen to both albums, to discover where she’s heading with her musical ideas from one track to another. Even if it’s difficult to characterise her music in general terms I think that soul vibes is something that runs through most of her production together with doses of folk music, but expect excursions to jazz, pop and other influences in a sound that often takes off from the acoustic with a rhythmic guitar as the prefered instrument. Listen here below to the soul jazz vibing “Macho Woman”.
Antonia Vai’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify
In the infancy of this blog in 2008 I wrote about Victoria Lagerström’s debut album “Heaven Sent”. Now she’s released her second solo album “Dancing With the Sun”, an album where I recognise her from before, but it feels even lighter and softer than before. It’s really soft soft singer/songwriter-pop with lots of soul vibes and beautiful melodies, often accompanied by pleasant guitars and a gentle piano. Listen for yourself in two songs here below.
Victoria Lagerström’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify
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