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.
I’m a calendar girl!
No it’s not Playboy or Sports Illustrated. Much better… It’s for the Scandinavian Girls group on last.fm
Summerdreamin has an awsome group on last.fm that list all the wonderful Scandinavian female artists on the site. Free downloads, streaming albums etc. If you have a favourite female artist that you want to tell them about, be sure to become a member and post your suggestion on the forum.
I’m being featured on the radio show Diesel:U:Music, 101.7 WFNX, August 8th.
Broadcasts will run Fridays at midnight in August 2009 and this half-hour emerging artists show is a block of time with all the music and programming selected by Diesel:U:Music.
The show will air for 4 weeks and is designed to highlight the best emerging talent in the Sonicbids community. The edition where they will play my music will air at midnight on Aug 8 (Friday overnight).
If you’re not going to be in the Boston area, you can hear it on wfnx.com, which is a worldwide stream.
Yet a day in the closet recording a new song. Each time I go in there I’m stunned over by how long it actually takes to do all the takes, chorus vocals and everything. I spend at least half a day just recording vocals and editing them. As you’ve already seen my tiny closet studio this is just a blog and no vlog, but maybe I should call it a mlog because here’s a sample of today’s song for you. It’s called “You plate your heart with gold” and I was inspired to write it after I heard Mason Jenning’s song “Which way your heart will go” and actually thought he sang “you plate your heart with gold”. It’s a song about people posing to be better than they are. They keep hurting others but pretend they have a heart of gold.
This preview is unmixed and a work in progress and will probably sound a lot different on the album when released.
Listen here to: “You Plate Your Heart With Gold” by Sofia Talvik
Everytime I need to do something, like recordings for a new album or something. I get this urge to do something else, something that I don’t need to do. That’s how I started doing the Christmas singles and all the other stuff that I do, just me, just by myself. So I guess it was no surprise that instead of going through the recorded files last week, I picked up the guitar and learned the old classic “Wichita Lineman”. Years back I had a brief collaboration with Swedish artist Niclas Frisk (Atomic Swing, A Camp). He was the one who first played me this song and I still love it. So thank you Niclas! And here’s how it turned out sounding in my kitchen…
Don’t bother with the video? Listen to the mp3.
As we were staying in an artist studio, me and the band thought we’d make some art for our host. We had an art challenge where everyone was supposed to draw eachother and themselves.
Check out the result here: