* Brus & Knaster *
Brus & Knaster is a Swedish label that closely works together with Playground Music. In English Brus & Knaster means ”White Noise and popping” like the sound you get from vinyl when played. Started by Producer/A&R – Göran Petersson and designer/photographer Johan Månsson, the idea was to create a label that criss-crossed across the genre borders. A Left-of-center label with an eclectic vibe. Americana, Electro, jazz, world, children’s music and even pop could all find a home in the same stall.
Coming 2010
Artist: THE TARANTULA WALTZ – Homepage – Myspace
Album: “Did Not Leave To Find But To Forget, To Leave Behind”
Glasgow & Clyde is the first single culled from ”Did Not Leave To Find But To Forget, To Leave Behind”, The Tarantula Waltz sophomore album. The debut, released in 2007 was met with very favourable reviews. The band heralded by British Uncut as ”Impressive newcomer”. The core and soul of The Tarantula Waltz is singer/guitarist/songwriter Markus Svensson and his meticously crafted songs. The brilliant band supporting him, a loosely knit collective of musicians that has been there since the debut, has during the recording process of the new album become a permanent outfit. Among the host of guests also appearing on the new album are Jaw Lesson, David Sandström and Ebba Forsberg. The new album will be released Mid February 2010. Glasgow & Clyde will be available shortly at www.brusoknaster.se
Artist: EP’S TRAILER PARK – Blog (In Swedish) – Myspace
EP: “Black Heart Ep”
Album: “Scissors & Knives”EP’s Trailer Park, this Swedish Folk-Pop act was founded by lead singer and songwriter Eric Palmqwist.
Former members include Tobias Fröberg, Magnus Tingsek and Björn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn & John. The Black Heart EP is the bands first release in five years and the first on their new label Brus & Knaster. The first single features fellow swedes Frida Öhrn and Christian Kjellvander on backing vocals. Here’s the title track free for you to share, enjoy!
Artist: JAW LESSON/HAJEN – Myspace
Under the moniker Hajen she has been one of Sweden’s most talked about artists in 2009. Under her new identity Jaw Lesson we’re certain the rest of the world will pick up on the hype in 2010… She appears on two tracks on The Tarantula Waltz upcoming album and is also featured on our release with Bröderna Lindgren. Not to be missed!
Her first EP will be released in the spring of 2010!
Artist: YOSEI – Myspace
When you listen to Yosei’s music you get the feeling that their songs have been squeezedthrough the roof of all existing music genres.
The driving force behind Yosei is the singer and saxophone player Lina Langendorf, a musician that has been seen and heard in a number of different constellations over the last years. Apart from her own band she’s been playing with artists like Marit Bergman, Toumani Diabaté, Blood Music, Jonna Lee and Rubies to name but a few. Most recently Lina has be heard on Jenny Wilsons album Hardships! as well as in Wilson’s new live band. Lina Langendorf is also a music producer and show host for the radio show Kalejdoskop for the Swedish Radio and her shows have attracted much attention both from listeners and the media.
Artist: LEIF JORDANSSON – One-Page
Album: “Two Suites”The second outing from Leif Jordansson on Brus & Knaster will be out beginning of March, working title “2 suites”.
Released
Artist: BRÖDERNA LINDGEN – Homepage – Myspace
Title: “Presenter Meningen Med Livet” (= Presents The Meaning Of Life)
Released: Oct 2009The Lindgren Brothers critically acclaimed first album with children’s
music for grownups, or maybe vice versa is a more appropriate term, was released in 2007. Now Mathias and Andreas are back with the sequel, even better, even bigger, to assist them a host of Swedish indie’s finest; wellknown names like Olle Ljungström, Nina Ramsby, Ebbot Lundberg, Patrik Arve, Britta Persson, Kristoffer Åström and Caroline Wennergren but also a couple of newcomers like Hajen/Jaw Lesson and Those Dancing Days.
Artist: JOHANNA OCH KÖKSVARTETTEN – Homepage
Title: s/t
Released: Dec 2009A cookbook for children with a CD inside!? They’re on a mission, good music and good food, and teaching children how to cook good food… Johanna Westman and her Kitchen Quartet travel around the globe on their musical food journey twice.
Artist: ZILVERSURF (a.k.a João Sueco & Johan Zachrisson) – Myspace
Title: “Howling Dogs & Lost Souls”
Released: Nov 2009
To the young guitarist who started out in Swedish reggae greats Dag Vag in the 70s the prospect of having one of his songs picked up by the legendary Lee Perry most have seemed like a remote chance but when producer Adrian Sher
wood and Lee Perry did just that in 2008 it’s just another proof of how far and well Johan Zachrissons’s music has travelled over the years. On his sixth solo album ”Howling Dogs & Lost Souls” Zilverzurf returns to instrumental music after some years of co works with vocalists from Sweden, Jamaica, France, England; Papa Dee, Simone Moreno, Desmond Foster, Joseph Beckford, Menad Bouchami, K-Reem, Nadaka & Gopika and Lee Perry. When pressed to describe the music on the new album Johan says that his initial idea was to make chill-out music for grown ups. The ambient setting of the album with the music interspersed with field recordings is indeed proof of this notion but there’s a sense of profoundness here that may well overshadow it’s composer’s initial ambition. ”Howling Dogs & Lost Souls” is pure music, and as such valid for any occasion.
Artist: FOLKE – Myspace
Title: “Ordinary Extraordinary”
Released: Sep 2009Folke is the pop alter ego (as well as middle name) of renowned jazz bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg, known from numerous releases in the jazz genre, with his own band Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot Five, as well as a member of groups like Jonas Kullhammar Quartet, Lina Nyberg, Sonic Mechatronic Arkestra a.o. Ordinary Extraordinary is the second outing from Folke. The first album, released in 2008, was met with a few raised eyebrows and loads of favourable reviews. Ordinary Extraordinary comprises even stronger material than the debut, in sparse arrangements by Torbjörn Zetterberg and producer Johan Berthling (Tape, The Tiny a.o.). Among the musicians drummer Ola Hultgren (Loney Dear, THUS:OWLS a.o.) According to Folke the album is
about “all the superordinary events of life, the ones that everybody experience, yet extraordinarily unique every time. Here in the form of three family dramas, three inspirational speeches and three ordinary love songs.”
First single ”Wet Soup” – available for download at www.brusoknaster.se
Torbjörn Folke Zetterberg vocals, guitars, piano, string machien, Hammond & pump organ, electric bass, syntheziser, drum
Johan Berthling electric guitar, pianet, syntheziser
Ola Hultgren drums & percussion
Olle Nyman drums
Jonan Krantz backing vocals
All songs by Torbjörn Folke Zetterberg
Produced by Johan Berthling
Artist: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRENT HUNTER VS. NINA RAMSBY
Title: s/t
Released in Scandinavia: Oct 2009Is it possible to make valid music without meeting in real life. Will the music be at loss when mailed back and forth as zeroes and ones or can we drop that convention right away? Is it possible to make music with presence, music with contact, working at a distance?
According to The World …According To Brent Hunter vs Nina Ramsby it is most definitely so. It started with a fan mail from Nashville in 2003. Brent Hunter wanted to tell Nina Ramsby how much Baxters first album had meant to him. Nina liked Brent’s Southern language way of expressing himself and replied immediately. They started to exchange mails. After six months or so Brent asked if he could send some of his music to Nina. When she said yes, she was told that she was free to do whatever she wanted with it. Brent sent musik programmed on his RM1X sequencer but also cassettes (!) where he sang and played guitar, sensitive, cautious songs. Nina started to work on the material, cutting them up, adding things of her own, edited and programmed, completing the songs. Sometimes only an embryo of Brent’s idea was left. The acoustic songs were treated with the utmost delicacy, only adding some vocals, a trumpet in the background, a small guitar part to complement, to complete them. When four songs were finished (btw all the music on The World is placed in chronological order as they were created) Nina sent them back to Brent, who really liked what he heard. Nina continued her »ruthlessness project« using the hissing and crackling cassettes from Brent. Not in order to make some sort of lo-fi statement but rather to clearly show the foundation of the project as well as pointing out that the magic of music rarely depends on big budgets and expensive mics and that a low res mp3-file indeed is a valid starting point for a recording project. Half of what to be The World …According To Brent Hunter vs Nina Ramsby was finished in the Autumn of 2005.
Two years had passed since thir first contact. They had still not met, not even spoken on the phone. Time to meet, Nina flew to the US and landed in Brent’s Nashville suburb. The played and sang in the same room for the first time. In Spring 2006 Brent arrived in Sweden for his first visit and the recordings continued. Since then the two have met once a year and a second album is already in the making.
The World …According To Brent Hunter vs Nina Ramsby are 22 songs, small organic acoustic songs and hard electronica, woven into a journey in and out of different worlds. Lyrics about oppression, about letting go of control, about gay issue struggles, about a God who is like a knife, about mad longing, about paranoia…
Artist: HOUSE OF TOMIDAS – One-Page
Title: “Dark Times”
House of Tomidas play no-holds-barred pop music. Britta Persson’s distinctive vocals an interesting contrast to the rough sway of the band. It seems as if songwriter Peter
Hermansson, piano and accordion (earlier with Kristofer Åström’s Hidden Truck), is an eccentric man with mood swings of sorts. Percussionist Niklas Johansson and guitarist Johan Strömgren complete the HoT-combo. Dark Times is the debut of this brilliant outfit, an alternative pop album that encourages the listener to let go of the safety net and is produced by Per Nordmark (Fireside, Breach, Hets, Bad Hands).
Artist: LEIF JORDANSSON – One-Page
Title: “Den Halvt Dolda”
”De halvt dolda” contains music written for the TV series with the same name written by Jonas Gardell and directed by Simon Kaijser Da Silva. The show premiered January 2009 and was an instant success and later won the prestigious TV “Crystallen Award” For Best Drama Film.
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