Releases

Mystery of new music books

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As we previously informed, “Best of Roxette” will be published by Swedish publishing company Gehrmans Musikförlag. The premiere was postponed two times – first time from March 22nd till June 1st and now the official release date is September 1st 2010 according to Adlibris.se and Cdon.se.

Suprisingly, on both sites mentioned above two more Gessle/Roxette music books are in stock – both released on May 31st by Books, LLC. The books are said to be in English. There is no cover pictures or any informations except the very long title where few songs’ titles are included (e.g. It must have been love, Listen to your heart, The look, Joyride, How do you do, The centre of the heart).

Amazon.co.uk gives more details – they claim that Gessle-book has 324 pages (!) and its dimensions are 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm while Roxette’s book has 126 pages and it dimensions are 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm.

Is it meant to be the international version of Swedish “Best of Roxette”?
Does anyone know more about these publication?
Or better: is there someone out there who purchased them?

New Roxette album postponed to 2011

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As The Daily Roxette reports, the upcoming Roxette album got moved from end of this year to early 2011. The recordings go well, but they plan to have a summer break (where they’ll perform live around the Baltic sea) to resume recording until October. The actual plan is to record 16 songs with the first single to be released for Christmas 2010.

Comment: In my opinion that’s a good decision!
– The current EMI turmoil could lead to a quite insecure release/promotion situation this year. EMI was rumored to have postponed the next Coldplay album for example.
– The pre-christmas market is always very crowded with album releases. Nobody knows if Roxette’s name is still big enough to gather enough attention between such a huge competition. Roxette have a good history of winter/spring releases (all studio albums except (POP and LS).
– Judging from previous release interviews they always got fresh inspiration through a recording break.

I guess a first single already 2-3 months in advance of the album will keep us more excited than single/album released within 2 weeks… 😀

“Best of Roxette” officially delayed

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As we informed previously, a new song book “Best of Roxette” was planned to be released on March 22nd. Unfortunately, something went wrong – there will be 2 months delay and we can expect “Best of Roxette” to appear on the shelves on June 1st. It is still unclear if it is going to be released outside Sweden. Gehrmans Musikforlag, the publishing company, claims it will be available everywhere expect US/Canada, but time will tell if it is true.

The book will cost around 300 SEK in Sweden and it will include many Roxette pictures as well as new liner notes from Per Gessle.

Sources: Adlibris.se, Cdon.com

The preliminary cover of “Best of Roxette” songbook.

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In the Gehrmans Musikförlag catalogue 2009-2010 the preliminary cover of “Best of Roxette” was published with the release date in the autumn/winter 2009. As you may remember, according to several Swedish websites, the book will be released on March 21st. English words on the cover may suggest that the whole book (with Per Gessle’s comments) will be written in this language. On the other hand, there was also informations that the songbook would be in Swedish.

Source: Gehrmans Musikförlag catalogue

What’s going on with Helena?

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Some of you may impatiently wait for Helena’s second album. It is still not clear when it will be released. There are few words on Helena Josefsson herself on her website:

I have been busy, studying in Copenhagen, to become an opticitian like my younger sister! I want to work part-time with it along with music, because as a parent I want to give my family more possibilities. And studying takes a lot of time 🙂 But it is fun to learn new stuff! On top of this we live at my mother´s place because of a large renovation of our flat which is really needed.

About my second album I don´t know, who or when it could be released… But the good part is I am working on more music videos for it with friends, and we have started rehearsing with Sandy Mouche which I enjoy more than ever! Just for fun, like when we first begun playing together. And I am planning for a show with my friend Malin Nilsson the magician.

PS: Help Haiti people by purchasing my music on CDbaby
If you buy music from me, my band Sandy Mouche or anyone through the site CDbaby 1 USDollar will go to helping Haiti survivors of 12th January earthquake.

You can even see some pictures of Helena performing Michael Jackson’s songs on her aunt Sofia Josefsson’s blog.

Source: Le Journal des Mouches