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The Legends, Johan Angergård’s solo project, released this suggestive pearl recently. It’s a song about our endless need for affirmation, nowadays more current than ever of course, a topic he takes on with something that can be described as a dreamy and intoxicated electronica ballad. The equadorian singer Maria Usbeck joins Angergård in a duet, and adds lines in Spansh with a beautiful and human voice which is soon also swept away into the seductive mist.

Ealier this Summer The Legends released a couple of singles and I have added one them here below, “Summer In The City (Living Is For Somebody Else)”. The duet partner Maria Usbeck is also just out with her solo debut album “Amparo”, released in May on the same label (Labrador), and you’ll find a sample of her unique style here in the song “Uno de tus ojos”.

The Legends on Spotify – on Apple Music

Maria Usbeck on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Gustav Roth from the duo Roth also has a solo project running called Oldboy. Last week he released his second single “Debaser”, a sweet piece of sunny pop with some 70’s vibes. And the song title refers to the former venue at Slussen in Stockholm, which get a tribute with this song. I also take the opportunity to play his first single, released earlier this year, “Where Am I Going”, also a feelgood pop track driven by Southafrican warm rhythms and colours.

Oldboy på Facebook – på Spotify – på Apple Music

Ms. Henrik is preparing us for the release of his first full length album, “Fake and Copy”, which seems to be coming up within short. The appetizer comes in the shape of the single “Like Lovers Do”, a dance-inspiring discopop pearl with an efficiently sticky chorus which makes us sing along already from the start. That there are 90’s vibes in the song becomes even more obvious in the cool music video which starts with a fictional clip from the Swedish 90’s music video TV-show Voxpop hosted by Henrik Olsson. The two Henrik join together and hit off on a nightly roadtrip ending with some kind of heist. It’s funny also that the music video played inside this music video is also available as a combined music/lyrics video.

Ms. Henrik on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Music for several musicians who don’t play together, but is played back simultaneously? Can that really be something interesting? Indeed, it is! Ann Rosén and Stockholm Saxophone Quartet’s album “Bredvid” evolves in a kind of playful way and can be described as a mix of alarm signals, noise, disjointed tones and pauses. It’s both meditative and disturbing at the same time and some tracks are like a story with something mysterious going on in the foreground while you can sense an ominous vibe further in the back. It’s interesting and exciting, and sometimes computer games comes to mind but also of course horror movies. But mostly it’s music which has it’s very own life.

The works is a mixture of duos (where two voices run in paralell), a quartet (in the same way) and a solo where Ann Rosén is playing on a kneecuff instrument (“Bredvid A”).
Technically it’s interesting to know that the instruments used are homebuilt synths driven by the signal from microphones placed in the saxphones.

Ann Rosén has worked many years with different kinds of sound art and music, and is maybe most known for her works with the the combination of cloth and electronics. She has written the music for the legendary Stockholm Saxophone Quartet who is also plated back on this album.

“Bredvid” on Soundcloud | Schhh (label) | Ann Rosén’s site – on Spotify – on Apple Music | Stockholm Saxophone Quartet’s site

Bredvid A

Bredvid

Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

The band Les Gordons, hailing from Örebro, is right in the middle of an exciting period. After participating in the finals of a national Swedish radio competion last month, they were picked out by a jury to the biggest competition of them all: Melodifestivalen in Swedish national television next year. And of courrse they didn’t turn down the opportunity to play in front of the biggest possible Swedish audience.

They are hardly the typical band for the competition, though, even if they have a great sense for catchy tunes. Into their melting pot of energetic indie they pour various influences and they can add som 60’s-inspired garage pop just as well as funky dance rock with a taste of the 80’s. In Summer they released this video with the title track, “Need to Feel”, from their latest EP, released in Spring. I’ve also added another excellent track from the album here below: “Walking On”.

Les Gordons on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music