This brandnew photo from the rehearsals was just posted on roxette.se! 😀
Edit: Per on twitter:
Roxette home videos from the NOTP-rehearsals available very very soon at www.roxette.se
Fantastic! Worldwide fandom is able to follow this tour via YouTube again (like Party Crasher tour)! 😀
Written by Emilio Gimenez Bahl from Argentina:
Besides Per Gessle undoubtedly Christoffer Lundquist is my favorite artist from Sweden. I started to know more about him from the latter days of Brainpool when he assumed a more active role in the band from Lund. Actually “Junk a Rock Opera” became my favorite and the best album they made, ever.
One day, wasting some precious time on the iTunes Store, I got a beauty surprise – “A Christoffer Lundquist EP“. There were only four songs, so I asked myself why not to give it a try? The album was released under the extinct Junk Music AB in 2005 an it’s called “Major & Minor Songs EP”. Let’s see.
The opening track is “Happy new year”. Maybe the song matches the most the Brainpool sound but until 1:40 when you start to listen a very familiar sound – Christoffer’s guitar. Then you start to listen to synths like in “Mazarin” and beautiful guitar sounds as in the outro of “Late, later on”.
The first impression was strange, because the EP doesn’t have the sound I was expecting to listen, I mean… like “God bless free Radio” or “Designer dreams” from Brainpool and “Happy new year” has the sound and atmosphere of … “Son of a Plumber”, yes! Sort of acoustic and organic music with a very 70s sound.
“I would fain fly” has to most “up to date” sound of the EP. It’s an amazing story of love with all the tips that I used to enjoy in a good pop song. Simple lyrics, harmonical vocals and a sweet guitar melody – when you have this music’s algorithm, you have a hit. And “I would fain fly” is it!
The track #3 “Let’s Talk” follows the same plot, an extraordinary acoustic and simple pop love song “…so let’s talk you and I till the wondering sky kiss the night goodbye…” Sometimes it reminds me the voice of Peter Hammill, when he sings “Refugees”.
The ending track is “Take out for one”, a sweet American ballad like “Since I don’t have you”, with Christoffer singing in a higher tone and with a very 50’s piano rhythm.
I really enjoyed this EP and “I would fain fly” in particular. Christoffer has finished to record his first full length solo album right now and as he said “it is ready and waiting to be released”. So I do hope to see it on the shelves very soon.
You can listen the EP here: Christoffer Lundquist – Major & Minor Songs >
Spotify (album:0IRoJNaY655DcuCK1Zf2Lm) or buy it here iTunes
Brandur Enni is a singer and a songwriter from the Faroe Islands, located in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. But he decided to start his career in Sweden – for instance he took part in Swedish Melodifestivalen the last year. A few weeks ago Brandur was in Sundsvall to record a music video for his first single “Sometimes truth needs a lie” off the forthcoming album – in the old mental hospital at Sidsjön lake.
Bandur’s album will be released in October and was produced by Christoffer Lundquist in his studio in Scania.
Source: Brandur.com, Dagbladet.se
Åsa Gessle has her 48th birthday today. Congratulations from the whole RoxetteBlog.com staff!
Per wrote today on his Twitter:
Åsa thanks everyone for remembering her. She’s getting pretty old actually…
P.S. Per, don’t forget that the older the wine the better it gets 😉
Here you can find pictures from the Festival: TVNET, LETA, NovoNews, Delfi foto & Vipi.lv.