The first two AA’s (out of four), Summer Love AA and Autumn Fall AA are now up on Spotify. Follow this link and you’ll arrive at all my releases (including my old album The Anger).
First 2 AA’s now on Spotify!
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The Embedded Swings Again.
Finally got the video, The Pendulum Swings Again from Autumn Fall AA, up on youtube.com.
The Vimeo player is nicer [the video on Vimeo] but WP-doesn’t like Vimeo-players (and I run WP).
The Video Swings Again³.
Here it is!
The Video!
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No, seriously. Here’s the video for The Pendulum Swings Again, taken from Autumn Fall AA (which you can read all about in the post below).
I haven’t embedded it because the video is only available through vimeo, and WordPress don’t do vimeo-embedding. I am, however, to upload it to youtube as soon as we get some stuff sorted. When I do, I’ll embed!
Here’s the info on the vid:
Video for the song The Pendulum Swings Again, taken from the double A-side single Autumn Fall AA by Tomas Halberstad.
Director: Stewart Smith/stewdio.org
Camera: Thomas Brandt
Script Supervisor: Roberth Olausson
Label: Euphoria Sound
Distro: Phonofile
Promo: Skiva.se
Release Date: 2010-09-21
Region: World Wide
Now go see it!
Link above!
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Autumn Fall AA out today!
Yes that’s right folks, my latest double A-sided single praising the seasons (no. 2 of 4) is here!
Autumn Fall AA, with the songs:
01. The Pendulum Swings Again
02. Add to All Noise
It’s available for digital download at all the usual vendors. Here’s some links, where you can get it:
Play.com, Amazon, Meteli, iTunes, cdon.com
And while you’re at it, be sure to download the first AA in the series
Summer Love AA, with the songs:
01. Watch the Tears Run From My Face
02. Must be in Love
047 and I.
Since Punk of Country (the band I used to play in) called it quits, I haven’t really collaborated with anyone in making music. Sure, I’ve been produced and stuff but by then; when the production-part of song-making comes to be, the song is more or less finished.
This is all about to change, albeit for just one song.
I’ve just now been sitting by my computer laying down the first basic tracks, or demo-tracks, to a song I am writing with chip-music extraordinaire’s 047 (or as they’re called in Swedish 047).
Don’t know what will come of this. But, when anything comes through, I’ll let you know how to get hold of it. In the mean time, here’s 047 super hit song Ankan (The Duck).
Promotion.
Having a meeting tomorrow with a company that is going to promote me; or my music, the single Autumn Fall AA. apparently one needs a promoter or a promotion company. Just music does not suffice. It’s ok I guess. Before (or still; parallel), Rob and I have done (are doing) all that work ourselves, and slowly but surely we’re getting a catalogue of contacts and what not, to whom and where we can push what we make; music. But, getting to the number of contacts, and getting to that weight, which a good promotion company can throw around, would probably have taken (take) us forever.
It’s like this: We have the goods, we have the store but no one knows the store exists.
We need to make people aware of the stores existence. (Sexy way to talk about art isn’t it?) And, that’s what I’m seeing to tomorrow. I hope. I mean, if nothing strange happens.
Let’s see where this leads.
World domination?
Counting on it.
Running/Headache, Song-Writing and Promo.
Hi!
Welcome to the Runners-Blog! (Well, no. Not really. But, it will be about running today… and a bit about music, at the very end.)
Today I started running again, after four days rest. Did not feel all that great. I decided to only go 7.1km. The 10km will have to wait. I’m going to stick to running 7.1km for a while. Let the improvement part of running not lie in distance but in speed and comfort. When it feels comfortable, I’ll go further.
Un-funny thing happened. After the run, whilst stretching, my vision started to go blurry. My peripherals went, and my focus-point was really small.
I’ve had this feeling before, but the last time was probably when I was 15. It’s the start of a migraine-attack. Previously I’ve been able to stop the migraine if I popped some headache pills at the first symptom (the vision-thing), so I did that today aswell.
Maybe it helped. But, if it did, the migraine I would have had, had I not taken the pills, would have been massive. The headache I got whilst in the shower was massive. I had to put myself to bed for a couple of hours. Even now, some 8h later, I still feel it.
I’m still going out for a run tomorrow.
Have to check.
Ok, music news… or something.
Today I wrote a song that I’m pretty sure I’ve written before. Just can’t find it; remember it. Might even be something on the album I’m recording.
And, I’ve started to talk to a promotion company about getting help getting my music out there. If all pans out they’ll help me. If not then… well, not. Either way I’ll let you know.
Blackjazz.
Rarely get excited by a song these days, let along a whole album.
This one is amazing!
Shining – Blackjazz [iTunes link]
Had it in my headphones all weekend!
Summer Love AA is here!
Yes, finally!
Summer Love AA is starting to surface around the Internet; on digital vendors.
First up – Summer Love AA on iTunes!
Come one! Go on! Go get it!
Autumn Fall AA!
My absence from blogging is not only because of shame or un-eventfulness (as I wrote in the last post. No, I’ve also been hard at work getting my next release together. The one I’m presenting here.
Autumn Fall AA, is a continuance of the release before, Summer Love AA, and part 2 of a 4-part suite celebrating the seasons.
The AA, which contains the two songs ‘The Pendulum Swings Again’ and ‘Add to All Noise’ gets shipped of to press and radio today. We, that is Euphoria Sound, has also shipped the release to our digital distributor for… well… distributing. And, since the release will pop up here and there the coming weeks, well only give you September as a release date/period. (If we would want an exact date we would have had to either 1. ship months in advance or 2. be a big label. We don’t do 1. and we’re not 2.)
Ok. So without further delay, I give you: Autumn Fall AA!
No more balls to drop for you.
I’ve stayed away from the blog, for two reasons.
1. I have not had much to say.
2. I’ve been ashamed.
The second one is because of the fact that ‘Summer Love AA’ still isn’t available; it still has not had its proper release. (And, summer being over and all.)
As I wrote in an earlier post; we found the ball dropper, or what made the ball drop. But, and now I’m going to speak pretty metaphorically, what we thought was where the ball got dropped was not the case. We were told that the ball was dropped in one place but it seems as though the one telling us where the ball was dropped was in fact the balldropper himself.
To sum it up: The balldropper, the real one, can’t drop any balls any more. He got his balldropping ass fired.
Still, the release isn’t out yet. But, it will be. It’s being worked on.
Here and onwards.
After our (Camilla’s, Bosse’s and mine) vacation we’re back in Gothenburg.
A storm greeted us. Hello Gothenburg, I see you’ve been… the same. (We, here in Gothenburg, really need some government weather authority, modelled after the Chinese equivalent.)
I’ve started to get things together for September, and all that will be happening then. (However, it seems ridiculous to talk about upcoming record-releases when the one, supposed to be, released August 10:th has yet to see the light of day.)
Some pictures from Högfors tomorrow.
Night.
Found the Ball-Dropper (Sort of).
After a day of intense searching, we seem to have found who has dropped the ball on my summer release, ‘Summer Love AA’, and the fact that the release is nowhere to be found; on no digital vendor, despite of being released on August 10.
The ball-dropper is Cyber Space. Now, I don’t know who this Mr. Space (or Mrs., Ms?) is but I can tell you two things:
1. He (she… it?) has got a pretty ugly name.
2. I’m going to find him (her… it?) and tell him (her… it?) that!
Here’s what went down:
We, that is Euphoria Sound, uploaded all our info onto our digital distributors, Phonofile, server. Then our tracks, info and cover-art got lost. No one knows why. And really, that’s water under the bridge now.
Here’s what will go down:
We have uploaded all info yet again and Phonofile are working their ass off to push the info (songs, cover) out to the different digital vendors.
The fact that we’re doing it like this, this time not having a release date, means that the tracks are going to pop-up here and there at different times; the first in a few days the last (Spotify) about 16 weeks from now. If you have a prefered digital vendor, just hang tight. The songs will come.
I’ll let you know, through this outlet and on Twitter, when and where things start to surface.
Thanks for your patience!
Who’s the ball-dropper?
First off, apologies are in order. So, I’m sorry.
Why am I sorry?
Well, it seems as someone has dropped the ball; the ball that is the release of my summer single ‘Summer Love AA’.
It, the single, was set for an August 10:th, world-wide, digital, release.
We’re now onto August 17, and if you’ve checked your digital vendor of choice you’ve seen that the single is not there. It’s not anywhere.
We, and that is the record label Euphoria Sound, together with our digital distributor Phonofile are working to find out what went wrong, and getting the single out there as soon as possible.
It’s frustrating. Not only for myself but for the people working on this project, meeting deadlines, and then: nothing.
Hang with us. We’ll sort it out… tell you when.
The Video Swings Again Again.
Working with a video-director, who’s on the other side of a vast ocean, is hard, logistically. Still, I managed to get the files, the video files; footage, of me, for the video, to Stewart today. I’ve uploaded all the stuff on a server and no I just keep my fingers x-ed that Stewart has a pretty fast Internet-connection.
The Video Swings Again.
As you all know, all who read this blog, Stewart Smith is doing a video for an upcoming release of mine, a song called ‘The Pendulum Swings Again’. Yesterday saw us shoot some material for that video. (Not Stewart and I, but Brandt, Rob and I. Stewart is in London, we’re not.)
I’m pretty exited by this. Not only because the video is done by Stewart (who has proven himself in that field) but also because it’s a video, per say. It’s kind of strange that in this age of moving image, and moving images close relationship with music, this is only my second video, and first one as a solo-artist.
Ok. So Brandt, Rob and I meet up at a photo-studio here in Gothenburg. Brandt set the lights, camera (action!) and so on. Rob handled the scripting. And, I sang and acted like that was the only thing I had ever done. (Not really. In an embarrassing turn of events it turned out that I did not really know the lyrics to my own song…)
Got a text message from Brandt, just a few minutes ago. He had looked at the filmed material and cut out all the bad takes. Now we’re going to ship it all to Stewart in London.
You’ll see the end result soon!
New (press) images.
New (press) images uploaded onto the images: -page.
Taken by Michael Stooss on a warm day. Rambling around town.
Enjoy.
Pictures from yesterday and theme-changes.
Ok. As you can see, I’m fiddling around with the WP-themes. As my CSS-skills are, shall we say, limited, It’s going to be a couple of days of odd-looking. I will, however, reach a point of satisfaction, or compromise… or just giving up. One of the three.
Got a mail from KG late las night. It included a picture of a camera, my camera. He asked if the camera was mine and if he should bring it to me. I said yes, and that he should.
This means I have the pictures deprived from/of you yesterday.
Here we go.
First up:
Michael Stooss, in a picture from the day before yesterday. Kind of a meta-picture. You’ll see the end result of this photo shoot soon.
More:
Lars-Martin (here pictured) thought this would be a nice pic. Our ‘to-do’ list for the song we were working on.
Further:
Ok, it’s not the Copacabana, or the Himalayas but I’ve been in plenty studios with worst views than this one.
More:
KG left me a little easter-egg type picture in my camera. A nice ‘street-art’ kind of thing. A sign warning for slippery surface ['Halkrisk' in Swedish] turned a sign for Crises ['Kris' in Swedish] with a nice Edvard Munch wink.
Even more:
This is how happy I was when KG returned my camera.
Last:
This is how happy KG was at returning my camera.
And, that’s your lot for now.
Describing stuff instead of showing them.
Happy Monday to you all! Because you know, Mondays like rock… or whatever.
Today I’ve been to the studio (Studio Väst) with Lars-Martin. Finishing up the recording of a new song. I took a lot of pictures and then, as one does, proceeded to forget the camera, in the studio. Yeah. So you’ll have to do with a descriptive text:
Lars-Martin sitting on a stool, in-font of a desk, on which there is a computer and a mixing desk and studio monitors. I’m behind the mic singing (off key). Wooden floor, white and orange walls.
More fun stuff:
Yesterday I headed out on the town, and the woods, with photographer Michael Sto0ss. New press images on their way.
I took some pictures for you of that aswell. But you know, their in the forgotten camera. So, another descriptive text:
Me sitting on a bench, next to a large pile of crap, having my headphones on. Michael sitting in-front of me, with a camera in hand and a big flash on a stand next to him.
Yeah.
If 1 takes 2 then (at least) half is surplus.
Prince, in an interview, once said that he thought that he could write a song a day for the rest of his life. (He also, recently said, that the Internet was dead, as far as a mean for distributing music goes, but that is beside the point.) Now, if Prince could write one song a day for the rest of his life, what would he do with them all?
I ask this because I’ve been to the studio with Lars-Martin today, as I have been before, and the main lesson I learnt (because of today and days before) was that: recording a song takes more than one day.
So, for every song Prince writes he needs (at least) two days to record… does not add up.
We did not finish today, but will finish on Monday when I go back.
Here’s a picture of us both:
Pretty natural looking if you ask me.
Since I did not have time to do anything but be in the studio and take the dog for a walk, today, the second picture (because apparently I need two) is this one:
Speaks for itself really.
