Sofia Talvik – Americana / Folk with Swedish Roots
Unmistakably Nordic in flavor, Sofia Talvik somehow still conforms to American interpretations of her own original music, a North Sea siren blending sparkle and melancholy, creating a special niche of folk music.
Staying away from rainy Hamburg doesn’t seem like an option, and I keep coming back time after time. This weekend I had this great little write up in Hamburger Abendblatt, and was also invited to do a Hamburger Küchensession.
You can find the article here:
I had the great pleasure of being invited to do the Hamburger Küchensessions this weekend. Despite what you might think when you hear the name it has nothing to do with hamburgers. Hamburger Küchensession recipe is basic and genius, artists play a few acoustic songs in a kitchen in Hamburg, Germany.
These videos can then be viewed on youtube or their website (which you can find here!). Hundreds of artists have traveled through Jens and Claudia’s kitchen, and two compilation albums are already available for purchase and the third on is on its way.
Here is one of the songs from my session, you can find the other two we recorded here!
I’m still recording demos for the new album in my Berlin bedroom recording studio. This is a short song that will need some work in the production stage later on. If you want to support independent music and help me out making this new album feel free to hit the donate button on the top of this post. You can decide for yourself if you think this video and song is worth as much as a coffee at Starbucks, or a gym card or maybe even more. You can also decide your own contribution. Anything will help me get to the finished product 🙂
I’ve spent the day recording demos for my upcoming album. I’m doing this so that I can listen better to the songs and figure out how I would like to produce them, and also so that I can send them to my musicians for them to practice with before we record them for real for the album. These are all one-takes in my bedroom and I managed to record five of them today before my computer started buzzing too much from being over heated. Might sound like that happened really fast since I only got five done, but each song took quite the time to record, making new projects, adjusting the mics, not to mention being able to play the song from start to finish without messing up too much, since I haven’t rehearsed many of them since I wrote them. All and all I’ve been at this the whole day, so I thought I’d share one of the songs with you.
If you like it and feel like it’s worth as much as a coffee at Starbucks (which takes a lot shorter to make) please feel free to use the donation button above to support me and help me out with this album.
Welcome to my first post with content available for donations.
This fall/winter I’m planning on recording a new album. I have a bunch of new songs and I’m working on boring stuff like budget and locations. With the donation system up and running, I will post some cool new stuff from the process. The system doesn’t work like Kickstarter or PledgeMusic where you raise money for a specific goal, but that doesn’t stop me from telling you when I am saving up for something special. Right now I’m saving up for recording a new album so if you donate on my posts you will help contribute to the new album.
For this first post I teamed up with my Swedish guitar player Marcus Högquist to record a live take of my new song “Big Sky Country”. I wrote the song when I was on the last leg of my long USA tour, and it’s about all the wonderful places and people I saw and met along the way, but also about coming home. I hope you like it!