A few weeks ago I got a tip from the band Flora Cash. And I’m happy for that, because on their Soundcloud page I found a collection of simply wonderful songs, which I’ve been enjoying today. The band, hailing from Stockholm, was started earlier this year by the trio Shpresa Ljeshaj (vocals), Cole Randall (vocals, guitars) and Daniel Westerlund (guitars, synth). They have so far release a couple of EP:s and some more songs, which you can listen to on Soundcloud, with folk inspired pop with gorgeous melodies. The songs from the EP “Fall 2012”, have been repeated some extra times through my loudspeakers; two delightful, uplifting duets, which you can listen to here below. Warmly recommended.

Flora Cash on Facebook – on Soundcloud

André Sandström calls his solo project Tidens Ande, a project where he also gets help from other musicians from the neighbourhoods around Malmö on his new EP “Relationer”, where he performs a melancholic acoustic music poetry with beautiful melodies. The southern Swedish dialect sometimes makes it a little too easy to compare with other artists, but stillI find it inevitable to hear some of Mikael Wiehe in the songs, and Timbuktu who sometimes breathes some air into the music, especially in the more rhytmic back beat-songs. There lies a somewhat lonely, sad and thoughtful atmosphere over the music, even if he, in the beautiful  “Hjärta” here below, gets some company with Maja Fröberg as a duet partner.

Tidens Ande’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud

Hjärta

I wrote about Le Days and his strong debut album “Dead People On Tape” last year. Now he’s released a video to the song “I’m Nothing” from the album. Strong and a little frightening.

Le Days on Facebook – on Spotify – on Bandcamp

Old Kerry McKee’s debut album “Wooden Songs” was released recently. It’s a broken, dark, desperate, tense blues and folk music where the sound is a part of the expression just as the vocals. I’m almost surprised how easy I can climb into Old Kerry’s world of sound after listening for a short while, and the nuances appears on an album that feels rather varied. Unfortunately the album isn’t available digitally yet, as far as I can tell, but you can listen to a track here below, plus watch a video of “Death, Oh Death”, recorded live.

Old Kerry McKee on Facebook

One Day

Kompaniet, hailing from Sala, takes us back to the early seventies’ psychadelic and progressive rock on their debut album “Vi i dalen”. Well, in fact there’s a range of influences that meet on the album, like blues, folk, jazz and rock which is also significant for that era when artists started to mix genres and experiment wildly. The songs started to live their own lives, both when it comes to length and structure. Kompaniet have found their own strong character in the middle of all this, as they cruise between Pink Floyd-influences, blues, Swedish progressive rock and folk music, from a relaxed ambience to drama.

Yes, I’m quite impressed by this debut. I don’t know more about the band than that they started in 2011 and that there are ten members in the band. You can find two songs to listen to here below, with the second one being the finishing 16 minute long “Nere i Dalen”.

Kompaniet på Facebook – på Spotify – på Wimp – på Bandcamp

Tystnaden ljuder
Nere i dalen