Listen to a new track from Majessic Dreams' forthcoming record "Beautiful days": http://www.myspace.com/majessicdreams
Maia Hirasawa is composing music for the upcoming Swedish television program "Stormen": http://www.metro.se/se/article/2008/01/14/08/0844-62/index.xml (in Swedish)
This week's top 20 Norwegian album chart:
01. Secret Garden - Inside I'm singing
02. Madcon - So Dark the Con of Man
03. Anne Nørdsti - Livli på låven
04. Sie Gubba - Sånn er livet
05. Hellbillies - Spissrotgang
06. Venke Knutson - Crush
07. Bertine Zetlitz - In my mind 1997-2007 Best of
08. Celine - Bæstevænna
09. Vidar Johnsen & Peter Nordberg - Ord & Øgonblick
10. Valkyrien Allstars - Valkyrien Allstars
11. BigBang - Something Special - The Best
12. Raga Rockers - Ubermensch
13. Kurt Nilsen - Push push
14. Henning Kvitnes - Stemmer i gresset
15. CC Cowboys - På Svalbard uten strøm
16. Arne Benoni og Lynn Anderson - I'm Coming Home
17. Ole Ivars - Vi lever i håpet
18. Superfamily - Warszawa
19. Solveig Slettahjell - Domestic songs
20. Diverse artister - Melodi Grand Prix 2008
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
02. Alf Robertson - Alf Robertsons bästa
03. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am
04. Kent - Tillbaka till samtiden
05. Marie Picasso - The secret
06. Caj Karlsson - Rapport från dårhuset
07. Jill Johnson - Music Row
08. Sofia Karlsson - Visor från vinden
09. Sahara Hotnights - What if leaving is a loving thing
10. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006
11. Säkert! - Säkert!
12. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao 3
14. Peter Lemarc - Kärlek i tystnadens tid
15. Magnus Uggla - Pärlor åt svinen
16. Elin Ruth Sigvardsson - A fiction
17. Martin Stenmarck - Det är det pojkar gör när kärleken dör
18. Björn Skifs - I2I
19. Mats Bergmans - Jubileum
20. Miss Li - Songs of a rag doll
"24 Hour Drone People" is the somewhat self-explanatory name of an event being put on by Joachim Nordwall and iDEAL Recordings set to transpire February 23-24 at Fylkingen in Stockholm. Twelve internationally regarded experimental artists are booked to participate including Hildur Gudnadottir, Hild Sofie Tafjord (Fe-Mail), Jacob Kirkegaard, BJ Nilsen, CM Von Hausswolff, Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), Jean-Louis Huhta (Skull Defekts, Anti-Cimex), Henrik Rylander (Skull Defekts, Union Carbide Productions) as well as Joachim himself. Each artist will perform a two-hour set with no break between, spanning a full 24-hour period. Read more: http://www.idealrecordings.com/24hourdronepeople/
The Tallest Man on Earth, as heard on the "Upp till kamp" soundtrack, has confirmed that his new album "Shallow grave" will be released on March 5.
Here's Firefox AK's new video for "Winter rose": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kKs5otxLUY
Don't forget to check out the mp3 as posted yesterday.
Finnish indie act Ben's Diapers are offering up an old acoustic radio session they did for channel YLEQ as a free download: http://www.bensdiapers.net/biisit/bens_diapers-yleq_popstudio03052005.mp3
The Susanna & The Magical Orchestra cover of Prince's "Condition of the heart" will be included on an upcoming Prince tribute compiled by Rapster Records, due out in February. Another notable contributor is Stina Nordenstam, whose near-unrecognizable version of "Purple rain" originally appeared on her 1998 album "People are strange". Read more: http://www.panorama.no/vis.php?kat=3&did=5884
In Flames has signed with Koch for the North American release of their next album "A sense of purpose". It will be out over here on April 1.
Danish label Urlyd is encouraging listeners to copy their albums for their friends: http://urlyd.com/cc.html
Not only will all of their releases be distributed with a Creative Commons license (just like my own netlabel releases), they'll also be posted for free download the same day the physical edition is available in stores. First up is female artist Tone with her debut record "Small arm of sea", due out January 21.
Håkan Hellström's new Jocke Åhlund-produced (Caesars, Teddybears Sthlm) album is confirmed for release on March 26. It was also announced that Håkan will play Way Out West in August, an occurrence his publicist compares to "Oasis performing in Manchester."
Danish metalcore act As We Fight is currently at Smart N Hard Studio with producer/engineer Jacob Bredahl (Hatesphere, Machinemade God) working on their next album. The band says they'll be toning down the rock influence to create a more straight-up metal album.