Monthly Archives: July 2008

Jesper Norda

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Knut in Bandprofile, Nordic music | Comments Off

Jesper Norda is a multi-talented artist from Gothenburg, Sweden. He works with both music and visual arts, and has had art-exhibitions in several countries around the world. We first wrote about him a year ago, when we featured his pop-band If There Is Something (together with Åbi Berglund), but this time Norda is on his own in his solo project. His songs are mainly based on piano and vocals, and it’s this simple instrumentation that really gets me hooked on … →

The Jersey Barrier

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Knut in Bandprofile, Reviews | Comments Off

I first heard of The Jersey Barrier through their wonderful song “Grey Skies” on the Kindercore “war on christmas” compilation from 2007. I looked around on the web for more music from this band, but I could not find much. Now, I’m sitting here with a smile on my face, listening to The Jersey Barrier’s debut album, “Steady Pace in The Slow Lane”. It’s quiet, folky and very melodic music. Nothing rushes in The Jersey Barrier’s world, – time is … →

Searching for the now

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Knut in Other | Comments Off

This might be old “news” for some of you, but I just had to write some words about the wonderful “Searching for the now” series from the fine Slumberland records. It’s originally a series of split 7-inch singles, but all of the releases in this series has now also been made available digitally on some download-shops (amazon and emusic has all of them). The singles are also available directly from Slumberland (link above). The latest two releases in the series … →

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