Vote for me in the quarterly finals

My video, It’s Just Love (feat. Bernard Butler), has advanced to the Top 10 round of the FameCast Finals.  I’m  one step closer to winning that quarterly grand prize!

Click here to view my video in the Top 10 round now.  Voting for the Top 5 begins at Midnight EST on Sunday, Nov. 8th, 2009 and ends one week later at Midnight EST on Sunday, Nov. 15th, 2009.

Please help me get to the top 5 by giving me your vote now!

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Big in Asia!

Eller ja. Vi får se, men häromdagen hade vi möte med en snubbe som jobbar för ett stort skivbolag i Asien och han verkade jäkligt sugen på att signa på mig. Tydligen är Asien och Japan, två helt olika saker så jag är inte Big in Japan än men jag kanske kan bli big in Asia. Jag har rest rätt mycket i Thailand, Filippinerna, Vietnam, Malaysia och Singapore så jag älskar verkligen Asien. De är så skönt öppenhjärtiga också. Vid ett tillfälle när jag var i Filippinerna och skulle äta frukost, iförd bikini och sarong kom en av tjejerna som jobbade på stället och synade mig uppifrån och ner “I like the body, very sexy. Body like miss Fillippino” sa hon och gick sen vidare. Inte direkt nåt man skulle råka ut för på frukosten på Clarion eller vad säger ni?

Jag funderade på hur det skulle gå att lansera mig i Asien och kom snabbt på att jag nog får göra om min “It’s Just Love”-duett med Bernard Butler från Suede till en duett med nån asiatisk stjärna. Han kanske kan sjunga sin bit på thailändska hehe. Multikulti!

Sofia Talvik / Bernard Butler – It’s Just Love

It’s Just Love – Sofia Talvik (Street of Dreams 2007)

December – mp3 of the month

Salvo Magazine appoints December their mp3 of the month in their upcoming issue. Read it first here!

MP3 of the Month
Sofia Talvik – December

It’s not very often I come across Folk music that’s to my taste. Maybe it’s just a genre that doesn’t really do that much for me, I don’t know. Now, before all Folk artists out there get all defensive and start writing in complaining that I’m dissing them as a collective, please, save your venting, you couldn’t be further from the truth.

You see, although I’m not the biggest lover of Folk music in general, when it’s done properly, like pretty much any genre (especially Classical but that’s a totally different story), it can be stunning.

Look at artists like Gemma Hayes, Kathryn Williams, Nick Drake, Tom McRae or Cara Dillon, with the latter especially being truly sublime. Folk absolutely is a genre that’s both under appreciated whilst also being a backbone to music as a whole and one we must all embrace ‘for the greater good’.

That’s what leads me onto Sofia. We decided to choose December as our MP3 of the month above all other tracks off her most recent long playing effort Street of Dreams as it would be too easy to choose the single It’s Just Love based on the facts that 1 – it’s a single already and 2 – it’s a duet with one of my personal heroes, Bernard Butler, now, that would bias the vote ten fold.
No, what sets December apart from the bunch is that it’s just so much more delicate than the others.

With a vocal range tinged by echoes of Dolores Mary O'Riordan Burton from the Cranberries blended with a light heartedness that in some ways isn’t too distant from Joni Mitchell in her heyday all those years ago, December has managed to remain on constant replay for a good while now and will continue to do so until another track off the album takes our fancy.
Featuring an accent that does at times sound Irish it’s almost unnoticeable that she is in fact from Sweden. Don’t worry. We’ll keep the Abba references to a minimum.

Sofia has obviously been working as a solo artist for long enough now to realise where she wants to get, it’s abundantly clear that she’s working with people who are on her wavelength and are helping her do that

If there was ever a time for artists like Sofia to be in the forefront it’s got to be now, we’ve got others Acoustic Soloists like James Morrison and Blunt pushing acoustic based song writing into the mainstream and whilst we really shouldn’t pin all of our hopes on artists like these, god help us if we did, it is great to see that every now and then artists like Sofia do get the spotlight shone in their direction. 2007 should be the year that spotlight gets turned to face her and we wish her all the best when it does.

I am also green with envy that she’s worked with a hero, but I’ll get over that so don’t worry too much..

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Duncan Buchanan