Great Robyn cover

This beautiful cover was made a couple of years ago. Annika Norlin (Hello Saferide) and Anna Järvinen plays a cover of Robyn´s "With every heartbeat". In Swedish.

/ The Drumming Cat

Swedish music for the autumn part 4

One of the most interresting new Swedish acts for a long time, De Montevert is highly recommended to everyone! To electronic music she mixes intelligent lyrics in both English and Swedish.

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Swedish music for the autumn part 3

Two more recommendations - at the end of August experimental musicians VED released another album callde "Gesrhvins pipe". Really recommend it.

Annika Norlin has released a new album in Swedish under the name "Säkert". The album is called "Facit".

/The Drumming Cat

Is there a Swedish ghost?

Just viewed this wonderful version of Band of Horses song "is there a ghost". It is Swedish group Shout out louds that calls it "Spöken" (Ghosts).

Enjoy!

/The Spooky Cat

Peter Morén in Swedish

Peter Morén from Peter Bjorn and John will soon release his new album "I spåren av tåren" (probably referring to the classic soul song "The tracks of my tears")which is the first time Peter tries his luck with using his mother tongue Swedish! As hinted by the name of the album soul is one of many influences on this album and the song "Ett land som inte är" is already a personal favourite.

Here is a video from "bibliotekspop" a couple of years ago with Peter Morén performing live at the Stockholm city library (!).

/The Drumming Cat

The Swedish tongue

Swedish pop has raised much attention outside the countrie´s borders for some time now, but these songs are of course most often sung in English. Infact there is also a lot of great music with Swedish lyrics. No news to Swedes, but maybe for residents outside Sweden, are these artists which I have collected in a Spotify-playlist. All the songs are performed by artists who uses their Swedish mother tongue to create great music. Maybe its impossible for a foreigner to listen to these wonderful tunes and appreciate it the same way as I do. For example, one time when I was visiting Italy and i asked someone how it sounded for that person when I spoke Swedish, the answer was not that flathering: "Like drugdealers" was the answer. Hopefully the rest of the world dont share that view and instead think that it sounds that Scandinavianpeople sing (which I have also heard), which would suit the purpose of this blog post a lot better...

For those of you that dont have Spotify,I must specifically recommend these artists: Jonathan Johansson , Markus Krunegård, Anna Järvinen and (Ingenting).

Perhaps the most spectacular is the group Movits!. Listen and understand for yourself why...

here you can also watch Movits talking to Stephen Colbert and perform live on his show: Colbert talking to Movits, Movits performing .

Hoppas ni uppskattar detta! (Hope you appreciate this!)

/The Drumming Cat