Tim Schmidt is back with a new album, “Tinar”, where he, like on the last album “Dog“, varies between more traditional folk songs and songs where he with small means stretches and experiments with the format. Well, there are just two traditional song tracks on the album, but those are also among the best songs I’ve heard with Tim, and “Everything is gonna be ok” is magical in it’s naked simplicity. I like the instrumental tracks also and the ambience he creates, but sometime it feels too short, like if it stays with an idea I want to hear more of. To hunger for more after an album is not a bad rating, though.
And now we’re changing the scene and the tempo completely from the last post, and we sit down looking out over a calm landscape where the grey skies is barely visible through the light mist and it’s getting dark soon. It’s Old Lost John, hailing from Malmö, who sets up this melancholic peaceful scene with his quiet vocals, guitar and earthy close folk-Americana on his EP “Caving In”. Here are two songs.
Earlier this Autumn Piroth finished their seasonal art project “Djupa skogen” by releasing the fourth single “Virvlande höst”. Simultaneously the mini album and art box “Djupa skogen” was completed with these four melancholic, acoustic folk songs together with a piano version of “Djupa skogen” with Patricia Naumanen.
Karmacloud is the name of a Danish-Swedish-Irish trio with the members Rumle Langdal, Linnéa Lundgren and Daniel Forde. We meet acoustic guitars, beautiful vocal harmonies and folk vibes that make me think of CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell and the early seventies. So far they’ve release a single and an EP. Listen to two tracks here below.
I don’t get that many tips about Swedish folk songs. It’s a genre that doesn’t get as much attention anymore in the large media channels in Sweden as it got a couple of decades ago, but it lives on and of course we’re reminded of the influence it has all the time in modern rock and pop songs. A young singer/songwriter that nurtures the storytelling Swedish folk tradition soil is Frida Braxell. Last year she released the album “Fattiga Riddare”, which is a collection of her recordings from the last years. A lot of stories of course, warmth, humour and also quite a few of these rhymed razor sharp frases that sticks. Here are a couple of songs:
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