July 13, 2010 at 11:24 pm
A year and a half ago I wrote a post on Brian Kramer and his live album from Club Stampen. This time, though, he’s all alone. It’s just about Brian, his acoustic guitar(s) and you. As close and intimate as it gets.
He sneaks away into the Mississippi delta, he takes a tour to Amsterdam, he let the blues take a stroll along childhood lanes and relationships and even have a look at an old pocket watch. It’s naked and straight on and no excessive outbreaks. And just like with the other album, I feel a nice mellow warmth, and especially in the more melodic storytelling songs, I get a feeling of John Hiatt, who also have a special way of spreading warmth around him.
Here are two tracks from “Myself and Mine”:
Journey to the Delta
My Precious Stone
You can find Brian Kramer on his Myspace page and on his site
June 10, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Today I’ll present a new colleague here on Meadowmusic, Thomas Nävsjö. First up for him is Steget:
My first post here concerns Steget, the duo from Gothenburg, who on their latest album “Förändrar Allting” create beautiful, stylistically pure piano pop filled with emotions. The voice of Mathilda Sjöström is wonderfully accompanied by the piano of Nils Dahl and with the ballad “Jag Skulle Dö För Dig” they have come up with a duet that touches me in a way no other has since Ratata/Frida or Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush back in the eighties.
You’ll find Steget on Myspace and the entire album is available on Spotify. Here’s “Baby Baby Baby” from the album:
Baby Baby Baby
March 30, 2010 at 1:41 pm
The music coordinator for the British drama series Sparks on Channel 4, Alex Hancock, has taken a different approach for the selection of music for the series. He has asked the songwriters among the viewers to send in their own contributions, well, anyone can participate. And from this material he then chooses songs for some special scenes.
When this started a little more than a year ago, before the third season, they received thousands of songs, and for the first occasion a song from the Swedish singer/songwriter Desireé Duvringe was chosen. The song’s name is “Automation” and you can listen to it here, and here you can see how the scene ended up.
The song became very popular among the viewers, a singel was released in the autumn and Desireé is now working on following up on all the interest around “Automation”. You can find her on her Myspace page.
Here are two new songs you can listen to:
It’s Not Easy
Behind Your Eyes
Pull A Star Trip. Singer/songwriter with a couple of adreneline injections, or hardcore with acoustic guitars? They have been compared with 
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