According to Swedish online shops – Ginza.se, Bengans.se and CDon.se – the new Roxette album called “Travelling” will be released on March 23, a week earlier than previously expected. On the same date such star like Madonna will also release her long anticipated album.
Update February 7: As it looks like, the album will be released on March 23 in Germany and other “Friday release” countries, March 26 in most other countries.
Some of us like the cover, some of us hate the cover. This is always like that with every Roxette release. Hard to please all at the same time.
But hatred aside (just jokin!), can you help us to investigate if any of band members’ picture from the cover had been published online previously?
Basia Konarzewska from RoxettePL Facebook page informs that Helena’s photography was taken during Dutch Bospop Festival – here’s the orginal picture.
Swedish photographer Fredrik Etoall is the man in charge for new Roxette photosession that will probably find its way in the TRAVELLING album bookler or promotion process. He has published a blurry photo from his photoshoot yesterday.
Thanks to RoxetteCafe.com for this information.
If you haven’t become a fan of the official TRAVELLING cover YET, so we collected several fan made ideas how the album cover could’ve looked like in parallel universes.
Would you like to share your vision of the parallel world? Send your projects to office@roxetteblog.com
We have it! Barry Mieny informed us that the font used on the TRAVELLING album cover is called Vanthian Ragnarok.
Tina Engmann added that “Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotel Rooms and other strange Places” is written with Bebas Neue and Roxette on the bus with Musa.
The cover of the forthcoming album called TRAVELLING was published today on the Roxette’s Facebook page. After previous projects for “2Rism” and “T2 – Tourism2″ Roxette finally decided to pick up different name. The album is due to be released on March 30 in Sweden.
As you know – the plane picture used on not the final cover of the Roxette’s forthcoming “T2 – Tourism 2″ album was taken by Norwegian photographer Fredrik Olastuen. Who is he – you may ask.
Here’s the little piece of information he publishes on his Flickr page.
26 years old, living in Jessheim, Akershus, Norway.
Work in the videoconferencing industry, certified on Tandberg equipment. When not on work, I spend most of my time as a hobby-/freelance-photographer.
I do mostly sports and concert foto, but experiencing with all kind of genres.
I have always been interested in photo, but it really startet to evolve when I bought my first DSLR. Now I’m almost only shooting with my Canon Powershot G10, but it’s still a lot of fun and I like to experience with motives and techniques.
My main goal is to have fun and take nice pictures of my life and surroundings, and experience while having fun. If you like my photos, that’s a nice bonus
If you want to follow my updates, you can add me as a contact here on Flickr or on Twitter where I will post every time I publish new photos.
Our reader Barry Mieny has removed the dark area in the bottom of the cover published by online Swedish shop CDON.com. If you look closer you may see that the album’s name includes colone instead of dash [T2:Tourism2[ and that there’ll probably be no spaces in between. This looks like a very tricky name!
We have no confirmation if this cover is real or not.
Update: The cover appeared in better quality at Ginza.se:
Thanks Honky Tonk!
Update 2 by J: Sven H has done some research and found the original plane picture and some information. The picture with the airplane was taken by Fredrik Olastuen who posted the following on his blog:
Speaking of photography, before the weekend I had a very pleasant surprise. Somebody had discovered one of my photos on Flickr and wanted to buy it, to use it album cover of a famous band in Sweden. I, of course, agreed to it, nice that my work is noticed and is appreciated. The picture otherwise also received many good comments earlier, quite funny actually, since the picture was taken almost by chance.
And I myself found this comment on Fredrik Olastuen page, left by Pär Wickholm at Minus on January 11. He basically writes that he works as a graphic designer and would like to buy a picture for an album cover for a “successful artist in Sweden”.
So it looks like the cover will at least have this plane on the cover. The idea is nice, also playing with the T2 = terminal 2, plane, travel, that the whole band is on the cover.. but let’s hope the bus and the band pictures get better!
Thanks Sven!
Update January 24:
Here’s the intial cover for T2 – Tourism 2 release. CDON.com also changed Unviersal reference – the album will be out on EMI label.
Swedish base online shop CDON.com published intial date for the T2 – Tourism 2 album release. According to the website the new Roxette album goes out on March 30 and will cost around EUR 17.95. The name is still unknown.
The interesting fact is that it’s the first Roxette’s album to be released under Universal Music label.
Thanks to Daniel Kuhn for finding this and RoxetteCafe.com for informing about the cover.
Swedish Radio played the duet of Robert Pettersson (Takida) and Helena Josefsson and you can listen to it here. Get ready to rock!
If clicking on “play” doesn’t work, just click on the timeline somewhere in the beginning and click play. It should work then. If not, go here.
As we reported yesterday, Helena Josefsson is featured in a duet called “My Own Worst Enemy” which was recorded for the Swedish film “Hamilton – in the interest of the nation”. Helena has told us a bit more about the song.
How come you are singing a duet for the film “Hamilton in the interest of t he nation”?
I was singing my music at an internal EMI party and there someone discovered my voice. They were about to record this Hamilton-song, and asked me to try the female vocals. I went to their studio and it worked out great!
My part in the song, as I think of it, is to illustrate Hamilton’s late girlfriend, singing to him from heaven.
And how was it with Robert Petersson, lead singer of Takida?
Then they tried a number of male singers and they fell for Robert’s voice. I really think his voice is perfect for the song!
We also read that a video was done for the song?
The video was shot a month ago and will be released on the 13/1. I’m excited to see it! The same day I was recording backing vox for the new Roxette-album. It was a very exciting day!
Will you be at the VIP premiere of the film?
Yes, me and Martinique will go to Stockholm for the premiere and there we will perform the song.
Helena Josefsson has recorded a duet “My Own Worst Enemy” together with Robert Petersson, lead singer of the Swedish rock group Takida, which will be part of the soundtrack of the Swedish film “Hamilton – in the interest of the nation”.
The film will have its VIP-premiere in the Stockholm on January 10th and will be in the cinemas on January 13th, according to Svensk Filmindustri. The thriller is based on a book with the same title written by Jan Guillou in 1988. Guillou has written 11 novels featuring Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish military spy and hero. Several characters in the books are based on actual people. For example, Jan Guillou is the basis of a character called Erik Ponti.
The song is written by Måns Tristan Sohlman aka Tristan. “I got the request from my management to perform this song and I thought it was a great song when I first heard it,” tells Robert Pettersson to Dagbladet,”it has a very typical film sound already in the intro, and part of it could be called rock”.
A video to the song has been recorded as well, which will have its premiere on Monday. A trailer of the film can be found on Youtube:
The film has even a website and an account in Twitter and Facebook.
David contributed to this article.
Per Gessle has just confirmed what we already suspected in November: that the soundtrack he was working on is indeed for “Small Apartments”, the new film by Jonas Åkerlund. Per has just written the following on Facebook:
Yes Box Alright! I’ve done the soundtrack, based on the Son of a Plumber vibe, for Jonas Åkerlund’s new movie “Small Apartments”. The music has been recorded at the AGM Studio and as expected the mighty Mr Lundquist & Mr Ofwerman have been the cornerstones. The film? Well, it’s a “dark comedy” (based on the S.A. novel) starring Matt Lucas, Billy Crystal, James Caan and Peter Stormare in the leading parts. And yes, it’s a wonderful movie. And yes, there will be a soundtrack. And yes, we have to release it on vinyl as well. I’m really proud to be part of this. Cheers, P. PS. Jonas is God.
So if we didn’t have enough with Tourism 2 (or 2rism or 2Rism or however it will be called) and the tour.. there is even more for our ears this year.
Per Gessle tweeted yesterday that approximate release date for the new single is February 2012. According to various press releases album will be called T2 – Tourism 2 and will be out in March 2012.
Here is exclusive inside look at the newly released “Charm School Revisited” double-CD album. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, do it asap! All photos used with kind permission of Justyna Bereza of RoxettePL.com
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