In the Autumn Magnus Weideskog released his debut EP and any day now his first full length album, “Unga hjärtan” (Sony Music), will be available. Magnus has been compared with Ted Gärdestad, which I agree with to some extent, especially cosidering his voice.

One description could be soft pop in Swedish. Delicate lyrics that never get trivial and a production that’s exemplary minimalistic which gives the music an honest and close expression. It’ll be interesting to listen to the new album soon.

You can find Magnus on his site, on Myspace and on Facebook. On Spotify you can listen to the EP and the new singel “Förlåt” from “Unga hjärtan”. Here’s the video and the audio track to “20 år”:

20 år:

20 år

“My ambition is to always leave someone with a feeling, to be a feeling and to move somone. You should for a moment be able to walk away from normal life and just be inside the music”. The words are Lennart Lindgren’s, and I think that he does a good job at it. For me it means a trip back to my childhood’s troubadours with beautiful melodies and beautiful poetic lyrics.

It feels dreamy and very soft, and it’s a little like putting on a warm jacket, to go out for a long walk in the snowy landscape and dream away for a while.
You can find more of Lennart’s music on his Myspace page.

Here are two songs:

Min barndoms dagar
Allt det vackra

I have just woken up from the Christmas coma, and I felt it was time to present some new music again, here on Meadowmusic. And first up is Jörgen Kjellgren, more known as guitar player and songwriter in the band Oh Laura. I have spent some time listening to Jörgen’s upcoming debut album “Noir Syndrom”, a warm experience in this biting winter cold.

It’s darkly poetic and I like Jörgen’s almost low-voiced way of singing, exploring lyrcs that I can feel. At the same time there’s a warm, mostly acoustic music shroud where Jörgen like a modern troubadour tells us about “guilt, deception, loneliness and lost faith”.

The album will be released in February, and here below you can listen to the first singel from the record, “Han har gjort det igen” as well as the song “Edie Brickell”. You can also watch the video to the song “Han har gjort det igen”, directed by Simon Yemane.

You can meet Jörgen Kjellgren at his Myspace page or his Facebook page.

Han har gjort det igen:

Han har gjort det igen
Edie Brickell

“Lika lätt som att vissla en melodi (lika lätt blåser livet förbi)”,  Bangalore (Gbg) calls his EP, which was released this autumn. Behind the name Bangalore (Gbg) you’ll find Tomas Persson Carlberg; a pop troubadour you could call him.

Naked and revealing lyrics, like confessions before a new start, are accompanied by beautiful melodies and arrangements according to the principle “less is more”. It’s peaceful and emotional and plenty of room for Tomas’ sensitive voice and the naked lyrics.

You can listen to the EP on Bangalore (Gbg)’s Myspace page, Facebook page or on Reverbnation, where you also can download the tracks. He has promised to present new songs this winter, so you can watch out for them on his pages.

Here are two tracks to listen to and download:

Lika lätt som att vissla en melodi (lika lätt blåser livet förbi)
Såpbubblor

Taxi Taxi! is the name of a duo I first heard about this summer. Obviously there was a hype around these twin sisters a couple of years ago, but I have to confess my ignorance about that.

I any case I think that they create soulful music that deserves to be listened to. They have now released their first full-length album “Still Standing at Your Back Door”, and it sounds great. It’s often naked and acoustic with a roomy, somewhat lofi atmosphere.

It’s playful and personal, with a nice sense of melodies, and at the same time fragile, tender and honest.

Here you can listen to “More Childish Than In a Long Time”:

More Childish Than In a Long Time

If you want to discover more of their music, you can go and visit Taxi Taxi!’s Myspace page.