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The
1900s
“Cold & Kind"
Press & Publicity:
Joan Hiller/Riot Act Media
p: 206.890.9906
joan <at> riotactmedia.com
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Act's 1900s page
Shows:
Aug 31st @ Rifflandia Fest/Lucky Bar in Victoria BC
Sept 1st @ Stanley Park Singing Exhibition/Malkin Bowl in
Vancouver BC, w/New Pornographers!
Sept 2nd @ The Sunset Tavern in Seattle WA
Sept 3rd @ Berbati's in Portland OR
New album of sultry psych-pop from Chicago
co-ed septet sensation The 1900s. Recorded mostly live to
tape, the record captures the energy of the band's remarkable
live show while also benefiting from the addition of large
string and horn sections. While clocking in at exactly 40:00
minutes (in honor of finishing the album on the 40th anniversary
of Sgt. Peppers), Cold & Kind keeps one foot in the past,
one in the future and another foot in your heart. If you dig:
Tommy James, Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, Cat Power,
Supremes, Roy Harper, Arcade Fire, Dr. Dog, Midlake, Leon
Redbone, Bill Clinton on sax or Russell Crowe's band...
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Spur
Angie Heaton & The Gentle Tamers
“The Rumor Mill" (SPURCD005)
The Rumor Mill is the new album by Illinois singer-songwriter
Angie Heaton, former member of Corndolly, Liquorette, and
The Tractor Kings. On The Rumor Mill, Angie’s 4th album.
she’s joined by a full-on country backing band, The
Gentle Tamers: two guys named Josh (Walden on bass and Quirk
on drums), and a former Nashville session player, Bob Watson,
on guitar, banjo and pedal steel. These gents help take Angie's
songs and sounds from the rock club to the barndance. Angie’s
phrasing falls comfortably behind the beat like Willie Nelson,
with a voice recalling Lucinda Williams, Kasey Chambers, and
Neko Case. Country enough that our label-hopping lass’s
latest found a home on Parasol‘s Americana imprint Spur
Records, after previous releases on both Mud and Parasol Records.
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Hidden
Agenda
The
Green Pajamas
“Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2" (AHA!089)
New album of psychedelic pop from Seattle veterans The
Green Pajamas, mining childhood nostalgia on their new album.
Box Of Secrets is a conceptual album, a follow up
if you will to 'Northern Gothic' (Camera Obscura, 2002), with
three intertwining themes running through it: local legends,
characters, and personal mythology; along with small town
life in the Pacific Northwest, the vague setting for many
of the songs is the Washington coast. The mostly fictional
stories enclosed within this 'Box of Secrets' evoke a shared
memory or that spooky sweet nostalgia, whether lived or not.
Though the subject matter is dark, the music and songs themselves
are rocking and psychedelic, moreso than their last true studio
album 21st Century Séance, which explored more mellow
moods…
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Hidden
Agenda
Moonbabies
“Moonbabies At The Ballroom" (AHA!088)
Moonbabies are a duo from Malmö, Sweden and over
the last 11 years have released four albums along with several
EPs and singles, enchanting fans around the world. Comprised
of multi-instrumentalists Ola Frick and Carina Johansson,
Moonbabies maneuver deftly through the lush pop landscape,
skillfully mixing psychedelic textures, moody electronics,
and expansive instrumental and studio expertise. Moonbabies
At The Ballroom is the duo’s fourth album and third
for Hidden Agenda Records.
Release date: May 29, 2007
 
Photo
credit: Andreas Larsson. More
photos soon.
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Parasol
Ryan Groff
“People In the Midwest" (PARCD105)
People In The Midwest is the debut solo album
from local scene leading man Ryan Groff, frontman for regionally-acclaimed
Americana-Folk-Rock act Elsinore. Joyful, transcendent songstories
with a spiritual vibe, some sporting a sweet seventies soft-rock
vibe, others exploring more ’00 experimental pop idealism.
Ryan’s songwriting runs a bit more expansive than your
normal human. He lets the instrumentation simmer somewhere
between restrained and minimalist and puts front and center
a voice (what a voice!) that recalls icons like Jeff Buckley,
Nick Drake and Elliott Smith (and Thom Yorke, Andrew Bird
and Morrissey).
You
really want to mess with this dude?
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Reaction
Recordings
Richard
Lloyd
“Field Of Fire: Deluxe" (REACTCD005)
SHOWS:
April 25 @ A Dough Re Mi - Mount Pleasant SC
April 26 @ The Earl - Atlanta GA
April 27 @ Copper Rocket Pub - Maitland FL
April 28 @ 1982 Bar - Gainesville FL
April 30 @ Hi-Tone - Memphis TN
May 1 @ Club Da Da - Dallas TX
May 3 @ Room 710 - Austin TX
May 4 @ Record Bar - Kansas City MO
May 5 @ The Waiting Room - Omaha NE
May 6 @ Uptown Bar - Minneapolis MN
May 7 @ The Frequency - Madison WI
May 9 @ Abbey Pub – Chicago IL
May 11 @ Corktown Tavern - Detroit MI
May 13 @ Now That's Class – Cleveland OH
May 14 @ Canal Street Tavern - Dayton OH
May 15 @ The Bug Jar - Rochester NY
May 16 @ Church – Boston MA
More dates TBC! New
album coming in August!
Parasol's re-issues imprint, Reaction Recordings, offers a
remastered, deluxe double-CD re-packaging of Television
guitarist Richard Lloyd's 1987 release Fields Of Fire,
available for the first time ever on compact disc. The first
CD is the original album (recorded in Sweden in 1985) remastered
by Adam Schmitt. The second CD is an alternate, augmented
"revisited" version of the album...the way the LP
would have been presented had Richard's vision not been undercut
by the studio technology of the era and the limitations of
vinyl pressing. Includes 16-page full-color booklet with lyrics
and extensive liner notes by Richard Lloyd himself, Reaction
co-founder Ric Menck (Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet), and acclaimed
music scribe Bill Flanagan (U2 biographer, VH1's Storytellers).
Photos
below by Godlis:
  
Photos below from the Field Of Fire photo sessions
by Anders
Torgander:
   
Photo montage below by Anders
Torgander.
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Galaxy
Gramophone
The
Chrysler
“Cold War Classic" (SKIV003)
The U.S. release for The Chrysler's latest album, with
five bonus tracks. Cold War Classic is the second
full-length release from mysterious Swedish folk-pop band
The Chrysler, recorded in a little cabin outside Katrineholm,
Sweden; an album filled with hope, agony, and clarinets. Their
enigmatic, bonfire folk and baroque, jangling pop has been
likened to The Byrds, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick
Drake, The Band, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground,
Lambchop, and Norway’s Kings Of Convenience.
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"First Blood" mp3
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Hidden
Agenda
New
Ruins
“The Sound They Make" (AHA!087)
The Sound They Make is the debut album from
East Central Illinois duo New Ruins, file under: Small Town
Midwestern Gothic. Droney acoustic/electric rock, songs rendered
in sepia-tone, awash in rural melancholy. For the recording
of TSTM the band consisted of J. Caleb Means and
Elzie Sexton. Since then they have enlisted a rhythm section
of Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet) and Roy Ewing
(Braid, Very Secretary).
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Hidden
Agenda
Thirdimension
“Before The End Begins" (AHA!086)
Through the band’s first two albums, 2002’s
Protect Us From What We Want and 2005’s
Permanent Holiday Thirdimension’s epic
pop and bombastic garage rock were certainly electrified if
not at times electronic. With their new album, Before The
End Begins, Thirdimension unplugs (for the most part) and
offers enthralling acoustic versions of songs from their two
previous albums, a couple of new and previously unreleased
new songs, plus some interesting covers. Before
The End Begins was recorded in a spectacular old church
in the band's hometown, Malmo, Sweden, a candlelit setting
created for heavenly harmonies and hushed hymns.
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Parasol
Mas Rapido!
“Pity Party" (PARCD103)
‘Pity Party’ is the second album from the
artists formerly known as Toothpaste 2000, veteran guitar
pop trio from Seattle, and part of the Parasol family since
the days when Frank and Donna recorded under the Cowboy &
Spingirl moniker. The sound of Mas Rapido! manifests itself
like a handful of lost 60s and '70s radio -pop classics, driven
by the pervasive power of rock-n-roll.
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Hidden
Agenda
Green
Pajamas
“The Night Races Into Anna" (AHA!085)
A compilation along the lines of past Green Pajamas releases
like 'Indian Winter' and 'Narcotic Kisses'; 20 tracks that,
for one reason or another, never made it onto albums or EPs
released over the last decade. Most of these songs likely
didn't fit the concept or 'sound' of whatever album was being
created at the time, and during sequencing, were left off.
The result is, ironically, a Pajamas album in what some might
regard as the "classic" sense: a rather psychedelic
collection of short, sweet pop songs. No theme or agenda.
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Parasol
Elanors
“Movements" (PARCD101)
Second album (first for Parasol) from Chicago quartet
Elanors will be released October 17, 2006.
‘Movements’ is the new album from Chicago’s
Elanors, vocalists Noah (piano) and Adriel Harris (guitar)
backed by the rhythm section of Daniel Johnson and Rodrigo
Palma (both members of Judah Johnson). This, their second
album, is a collection of piano-driven orchestral-pop and
disarming folkrock invention.
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Parasol
Steve
Almaas & Ali Smith
“You Showed Me" (PARCD102)
Second
album from NYC duo will be released October 17, 2006.
The songs of Steve Almaas (Beat Rodeo, Suicide Commandos),
the voice of Ali Smith (Speedball Baby), along with luminaries
such as producer Chris Maxwell, have come together to create
the second Steve Almaas & Ali Smith album,‘ You
Showed Me’. Voices blend in harmony, a steel guitar
answers a musical question, the slide guitar comments, while
bass, drums and rhythm guitar lock in tight. Devotion, but
no surrender...
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Parasol
Doleful
Lions
“Song Cyclops Volume Two" (PARCD104)
New collection of lofi bliss, winsome melodies, and trademark
paranormal subject matter from Doleful Lions' Jonathan Scott.
22 songs include handful of covers: Beach Boys, Close Lobsters,
The Crystals, Descendents, and The Misfits.
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Bus
Stop Label
Allen
Clapp
"Something Strange Happens" BUS1021
Compilation of singles and rare tracks by Orange Peels
leader Allen Clapp chronicles the '90s Indie-pop bedroom-rock
experience. For a decade Clapp poured his heart and soul into
recording; making entire worlds occur within the confines
of two-minute pop songs. In the pre-Belle-and-Sebastian pop
landscape, Clapp's combination of classic melodies and lyrics
that were equally parts fey and clever struck a chord. His
delightfully economical first single, "A Change in the
Weather" (1991) introduced the world to the breezy melodies
and spry rhyming that would become his hallmark.
Official
release date: September 19, 2006
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Bird
Song
The
Now People
"The Last Great 20th Century Love Affair" BSCD103
New release from Ric Menck's (Velvet Crush/Matthew Sweet)
Bird Song imprint... After
three years in suspended animation, The Now People have arrived
with 12 diverse and meticulously crafted gems from a baroque
pop netherworld. Recorded at the Wondermints’ Studio
Thru Inner Space, the debut album from The Now People challenges
the listener to draw comparisons. They are simply like no
other, now or since. To everything there is a season, and
the season of The Now People is upon us.
Official
release date: September 19, 2006
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Hidden
Agenda
The
Coral Sea
"Volcano And Heart" AHA!083
Re-mixed and re-mastered re-release of Santa Barbara atmospheric
art-rock outfit The Coral Sea's debut album "Volcano
And Heart".
Offical
release date: June 27, 2006
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Parasol
The
1900s
“Plume Delivery"
The debut mini-album from Chicago sextet The 1900s will
be released May 30, 2006.
As old friends, lovers and ex-lovers, Chicago sextet The 1900s
harness the resulting fury to create harmony-laden psychedelic
pop music, most notably inspired by The Zombies, Fleetwood
Mac, Belle & Sebastian, Donovan, Tommy James, and Velvet
Underground. A problem with keeping secrets and a penchant
for spreading rumors made for quite an arrival onto the Chicago
pop scene, where The 1900s were immediately embraced and sought
after by fans and critics, as well as the city's most cherished
bands.
These recordings emerged out of an idle yet remarkable studio
that, it was later learned, is funded by the Department of
Homeland Security… How this transpired is a closely
guarded secret.
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Hidden
Agenda
FRANK
LENZ “Vilelenz
And Thieves” (AHA!080)
Hidden Agenda Records will release the new album by West
Coast rock journeyman Frank Lenz on March 21st. Frank has
played and collaborated with and handled production chores
for Starflyer 59, The Lassie Foundation, Pedro The Lion, Richard
Swift, Charity Empressa, Cush, Kat Jones, The Dingees, Pony
Express, and Fold Zandura, among others. With "Vilelenz
And Thieves" our favorite renaissance man finds a comfy
orbit within his home studio cosmos, creating a Technicolor
cloudburst of homespun ballads channeling Neil Young and early
Built To Spill, with a drizzling of folk, bombastic orchestral
pop, and head-over-heels lyricism.
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Agenda
JOSE
GONZALEZ-“Stay
In The Shade EP”
Hidden Agenda Records will release the Stay In The Shade
EP by Swedish/Argentine songwriter José González
on January 24th. It is the follow-up to José’s
acclaimed debut album Veneer, released in the U.S. in September
2005 by Hidden Agenda. The EP features an extended version
of "Stay In The Shade"; two amazing album-worthy
b-sides, "Sensing Owls" and "Down The Hillside";
José's cover of the Kylie Minogue hit "Hand On
Your Heart"; and an instrumental track (for all those
John Fahey fans out there).
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JOSE
GONZALEZ-“Veneer”
Born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, of Argentinean
parents, 25-year-old José González is a top-ten
chart artist and revered troubadour figure in Sweden, where
he is cherished equally by the musical cognoscenti, seriously
besotted critics and hordes of regular Nordic punters. Using
just his own dexterously finger-picked classical guitar and
a captivating voice - part João Gilberto, part Nick
Drake– José’s music is as economical as
it is seductive; stark but effortlessly melodious songwriting
whose confessional, gently provocative lyrics (all sung in
perfect English) are, by turns, poignant, intriguing and life-affirming.
Please note: Mute Records will re-releae
"Veneer" in April 2006.
Press/publicity contact at Mute Records:
Leslie Hermelin - leslie (at) mute (dot) com
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Gramophone
THE
CHRYSLER
- “Failures And Sparks”
Considered a country act in their native Sweden, The Chrysler's
rootsy psychedelic reveries are shaded in eerie noir atmospheres.
A mesmerizing mix of winsome pop, bonfire folk, and otherworldly
hymnals, led by dual vocalists and guitarists Anders Rudström
and Pelle Lindroth, joined by Nya Sampan (melodica, piano,
organ) and Herman Arfwedson (acoustic & electric bass).
With their debut album Failures And Sparks The Chrysler have
assembled a shrine to their influences: The Everly Brothers,
The Band, Simon & Garfunkel, The Velvets, and Neil Young.
"Sweet music, with a touch of evil" explains The
Chrysler, out of the quiet into the quieter…
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Agenda
THE
GREEN PAJAMAS
- “21st Century Seance”
21st Century Séance is the long-awaited new studio
album from veteran Seattle psych-pop combo The Green Pajamas
finds mainman Jeff Kelly and his stalwart crew (including
songwriters Eric Lichter and Laura Weller) re-exploring the
stunning psychedelic territories last charted on their classic
1997 album "Strung Behind the Sun"...
Past praise for the work of The Green Pajamas:
“Seattle's
Green Pajamas can be seen as a more serious equivalent to
XTC side project the Dukes Of Stratosphear; both bands deal
in subtle twists of '60s psychedelia…the Green Pajamas
have a more earnest, folksy sound…” - ALL MUSIC
GUIDE
“When
are the highly literate and melody-savvy Mr. Kelly and the
retro psychedelic pop band he leads, The Green Pajamas, going
to get, at the very least, a decent cult following?”
- NEW YORK TIMES
“A
recommended pursuit for fans of the Go-Betweens, Elf Power
or the Soft Boys” - MAGNET MAGAZINE
“Coy,
clever psychedelic pop.” - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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PETER
BJORN AND JOHN
- “Falling Out"
Falling Out is a assemblage of ingenious pop songs, cleverly
recorded and masterfully arranged, sounds drawn from the simple
(the Speak & Spell talking toy that opens the album) to
the symphonic (tidy string arrangements). Think early Squeeze
and The Jam and several decades worth of British Invasion,
Canadian popsmiths A.C. Newman and Joel Plaskett, and the
euphoric rush of The Shins. 10 songs about falling in and
unavoidably Falling Out of love with people, places, and ideas.
Includes the Swedish singles “It Beats Me Every Time”
and “Teen Love” (a Concretes cover) and the standout
album opener “Far Away, By My Side”. Falling Out
features special guest appearances from vocalist Ellekari
Larsson (Vega, The Tiny), and handclapper/producer Calle Olsson
(The Bear Quartet).
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Parasol
Kevin Tihista - "Home Demons Volume 1"
Following up the critical rave "Wake Up Captain"
(UNCUT-"5 STARS. Songs of alienation and madness from
reclusive Chicago genius." CHICAGO READER-"#1 Chicago
album of 2004.") Kevin Tihista opened up his demo vaults
to the Parasol and Broken Horse (UK) label camps for a sequencing
free-for-all. Parasol chose thirteen songs recorded in various
studios and member permutations, featuring 12 songs that have
never appeared on CD, and the track "Do You Know What
We Should Do Now?" that will not appear on the UK version.
An engaging view into Kevin's hi-fi & bedroom-fi worlds.
Photo by: Jim Newberry
Photo by: Jim Newberry
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"I Don't Blame You"
Hidden Agenda
Moonbabies - "War On Sound"
This 8-song, 40 minute mini-album ahead of the upcoming full-length,
includes five new songs plus Pink Floyd and Midnight Oil covers.
"This creative duo can go from 70s-inspired folk-rock
to stellar, dreamy creations that could easily dub them the
godchildren of ABBA."-Resonance
Photo by: Martin Olson
Photo by: Martin Olson
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"War On Sound (Edit)"
Hidden
Agenda
The Jan Martens Frustration - "The Jan Martens
Frustration"
Debut album of sweltering garage psychrock from Gothenburg
combo. Features guest appearances by members of The Hellacopters
and The Soundtrack of Our Lives. The fifteen songs include
their import album, debut EP, and a b-side bonus track.
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"Convolutions"
Parasol
Doleful Lions - "Shaded Lodge and Mausoleum"
Equal parts bedroom melancholy and comic book bravado the
Doleful Lions’ fifth album “Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum”
is yet another lo-fi masterpiece haunted by tape-hiss poltergeists
and sundry historical demons. Not quite as sunshiny as previous
efforts, with harmonies and occult whimsies replaced by stark
folk atmospheres (think Incredible String Band, John Martyn)
and songs about satanic rites, cults, and suicide, the album’s
themes were influenced by late-‘80s bay area black metal
band Von, who released a demo called “Satanic Blood,”
which Doleful Lions’ leader Jonathan Scott worships
(figuratively, we think…).
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"The Ghost That Haunts Your World Will Disappear"
Rainbow
Quartz
Frontier Index - "Frontier Index"
The product of long winter nights in the studio, the self-titled
album from this Canadian quartet runs the gamut from bone
rattling to tender hearted, complete with summer sweet harmonies,
and all captured straight off the creaky wood floors of producer
Andy Magoffin’s humble abode.
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"Someday"
Rainbow
Quartz
The Get Quick - "How the Story Goes"
Melodies discovered in the soft underbelly of consciousness
from Philadelphia trio...
Oct. 7-Baltimore, MD-
Oct. 8-Philadelphia, PA-The Fire
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Bird Song Recordings
The Quarter After - "The Quarter After"
(Bird Song)
Debut
long player from Los Angeles psychedelic pop mavens, The Quarter
After. Similar in style and content to the Brian Jonestown
Massacre if and when they remember to take their prescription
meds. Soaring vocal harmonies confronted head on by a searing,
full-frontal guitar assault. Produced by Rob Campanella (Brian
Jonestown Massacre, the Tyde, Mia Doi Todd).
“It's time to dig out your love beads, flower child,
because L.A.'s The Quarter After are heralding the return
of The Summer of Love…”-Rhino.com
“…The Quarter After is all shimmers,
jangles and melodies.”-Aversion.com
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"Your Side Is Mine"
Bird Song Recordings
Snow & Voices - "Snow & Voices"
(Bird Song)
First
album by Los Angeles chanteuse Lauri Kranz and her new musical
collective, Snow & Voices. A shimmering, keyboard-drenched,
patch quilt of songs written about love, loss, longing and
regret by someone who knows. Sounds best at night. Produced
by Darrell Thorp (ya know, Nigel Goodrich's engineer) &
Jebin Bruni (Aimee Mann, Sheryl Crow, Liz Phair).
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"Goodnight New York"
Parasol
Orange Peels - "Circling the Sun"
The
Orange Peels have written the next chapter in the California
Sound. If the band's first two albums, Square (Minty Fresh)
and So Far (SpinArt), were the groundwork for their newest
effort, the foundations were well laid. Taking cues from the
terrestrial and the celestial, the band's third album is both
more earthy and spacey than its past works. A few more orbits
around the solar system's big star have granted the band a
new perspective. It's the sound of a band transformed.
Photo by Oed Ronne
Photo by Oed Ronne
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"Something In You"
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Part 1 of the audio documentary of the making of "Circling
the Sun"
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Part 2 of the audio documentary of the making of "Circling
the Sun"
Hidden Agenda
David Fridlund - "Amaterasu"
"Amaterasu" is the debut album from David Fridlund,
namesake and frontman for revered Swedish guitar-and-piano
pop powerhouse David & The Citizens, and one of the most
prolific and respected songwriters in Scandinavia.
"I never planned a solo record, everything I wanted we
already did with the Citizens." David says, "But
the more people mentioned the solo idea, the more it grew,
so when our Swedish booker Jesper Kumberg asked: 'isn't it
time for that solo record' it all sort of fell into place."
Kumberg has worked with David since early 1999, helping his
band to over 200 shows and taken some praise for propelling
David and the Citizens to dizzy heights and a Grammy nomination.
"But we had run Citizens aground," Says David, "Admittedly,
We were close to splitting, and probably would have if the
work on this record had not got going."
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