Beautiful Swedish music

Finally Im back after more than a week with a new blog post, but this time stronger than ever (or something like that...).

Just wanted to recommend a few Swedish artists with beautiful tunes on their resume.
Those are Holy Madre and Black Holy, both releasing new albums this spring. As a bonus I recommend you to check out this video with Jonathan Johansson.

/The Drumming 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

Love will tear us apart?

The day after Valentines day maybe love will tear us apart? Anyhow, watch this Joy Division documentary while thinking about that.

/The Drumming Cat

Valentines day

Thougt it was appropriate to put together a Spotify list of love songs in honour of this day.

Happy Valentines day!

/The Cat In Love

Edwyn Collins is home again

Found this wonderful documentary on Youtube. It is about legendary Edwyn Collins who began his career with 80s band Orange Juice (my favourite)and has since then had a solo career with for example the hugh hit "A girl like you" in the mid 90´s. In 2005 he suffered a stroke and has since then fought to recover with learning how to walk, learning the words to his songs again and also trying to fight his way back to the stage. In 2007 he finally was back on stage and this documentary follows his road back to a "usual" life again. This is part one, but there are four parts in total available on Youtube. Really glad you are back Edwyn!

/The Drumming Cat

Music Blogs shut down

Google shut down several music blogs yesterday since Google thougt they were breaking the copyright law. The sites on the other hand claims they were getting their material straight from the artists and record labels. Should I interpret this as I can never post a free song here (even If I have never did that) although it has been given to me legally by a label or an artist?

To be continued (?)

/The Worried Cat

Nick Hornby is everywhere

Just finished reading Nick Hornby´s great and latest book Juliet naked. The story takes place mostly in Gooleness, a small English town by the seaside. Annie and Duncan is a middleaged couple whose greatest thing in common is their shared fandom of Tucker Crowe, an obscure half forgotten 80s singer/songwriter, and especially the album "Juliet". When a new version of the album is released, Tuckers first release for over twenty years, called "Juliet, naked", they disagree about the quality of the album, which have consequences for their relationship and even their lives. At the same time we get to follow Tucker Crowe, whose American and lives in America, and his struggle in being a father and dealng with all sorts of ex-wives. The two stoires are then of course coming together as one eventually, but telling how would be to reveal too much information before reading it.

I recommend the book to everyone, both to those who are music nerds and those who are not, because on a deeper level its really about pre-conditions for different outcomes of a person´s life and the complicated relations people might have with different persons in different ways. But of course, if you love music, all the both comical and more serious observations Hornby´s makes on being a music fan gives the book some extra spice. Im talking for example about the relationship between an artist and his fans, how you can be so obssesive to cross the Atlantic to watch a toilet in a bar connected to Crowe or sit and talk via intenret with only a few of the other Crowe fans around the world, called crowologists. I really love this book and recommend it to everyone!

Worth noting is also that Oscar nominated movie An Education with manuscript written by Nick Hornby just have had premiere in Sweden. Nick Hornby is trully everywhere at the moment, at least today.

/The Drumming Cat