New Christmas single and concert!

Sofia Talvik annual Christmas single "Santa (can you bring me someone else this year)"
Sofia Talvik annual Christmas single "Santa (can you bring me someone else this year)"
Sofia Talvik annual Christmas single "Santa (can you bring me someone else this year)"

I have a habit of releasing a free Christmas single every year, and I am this year too!

The single will be released December 1st and will be a collaboration with The Bodyshop and ECPAT‘s campaign “Stop Trafficking”.

Along with the release I’m doing a Christmas concert at Clarion Sign in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1st! I’m playing my own Christmas songs and some selected favorites by other artists. As usual I’ll have a secret guest artist on the show and the Swedish Lucias will sing some lovely Christmas tunes as well!

Stay tuned! More info to come!

Sofia Talvik’s Xmas calendar: #9

We have one more Christmas concert coming up and I’m really happy to present the final guest artist: Pernilla Andersson.

Meet her in today’s window!

There’s still a few tickets left to our last concert December 12th. Make sure you book one HERE before they’re all sold out!

pernilla Guest artists revealed!
Pernilla Andersson is in her spare-time a passionate fisherman. She also runs her own label Sheriff, has produced several albums and released no less than 6 solo albums in both English and Swedish. This Swedish bombshell has several talents and and a heart of gold. She’s involved in the project “Don’t mess with out water” and some of the profits from her latest album goes to the cause of saving the sea environment in the Baltic sea.

Sofia Talvik’s Xmas Calendar: #8

As you know we’re doing a couple of Christmas concerts in December. But as we’ve been all sold out and you can only catch is in Stockholm, Sweden, I figured I’d show you some songs from the Christmas concerts in today’s window. This is from our première night with Meja as guest artist.

There’s still a few tickets left to our last concert December 12th. Make sure you book one HERE before they’re all sold out!

Today’s episode is sponsored by

Thanks to my band: Marcus Högquist – guitar and banjo, Kristoffer Jonsson – bass and trombone, Joakim Lundgren – percussion and Jonas Westin – sound technician.

The grand final with Maia Hirasawa

So. This is the last video to be posted, and you have now heard all 12 songs from my new album “Jonestown”.

Last but not least I’m happy to present Maia Hirasawa. Maia received a P3 Guld award for newcomer of the year when she released her album, and I had to go all the way to Gothenburg to record this song with her. I caught her in the middle of her changing apartments but she was as happy and carefree as her own music is, and she also brought that to the last song of this series of videos, “Something Good”.

Sofia Talvik / Maia Hirasawa – Something good

Song: Something Good (Jonestown 2008)
Guest artist: Maia Hirasawa
www.myspace.com/maiahirasawa

About Maia:
Maia Hirasawa has sung in a million different bands we most recently recognize her as the backing vocalist and multi instrumentalist in Hello Saferide, but she also played support to HS the entire of last year and sold every copy of her demo that she had the energy to burn on her Macbook. She won the Roland/Sami price for the best un-signed act of 2006. She’s in fact a skilled jazz singer, has a background as a Brit-popper and listens to Loney Dear and Rufus Wainright, but not to Regina Spektor, simply cause everyone says that they bear resemblance. She is half Japanese. “Though I’m Just Me”, is the name of Maia Hirasawa’s solo debut album.

Stay tuned for the competition, which will begin soon, where you can win signed albums!

Singing with Modesty Blaise!

The greatest thing about doing these videos is that so many fab artists from so man different genres has participated, doing their own thing with my songs, adding their own touch!

Emma Nylén, singer in the band Paris and her own electro/disco project Emmon joined me on my first “Jonestown” single “As summers pass”. Emma reminds me of Modesty Blaise with her jet black hair and beautiful big eyes. If Modesty could sing, I’m sure she’d be thrilled if she sounded like Emma.

Sofia Talvik / Emmon – As summers pass


Guest artist:
Emmon
Song:
As summers pass (Jonestown 2008)
http://www.myspace.com/emmonmusic
http://www.emmon.se

The 15th of September, I’m releasing my third album “Jonestown” in the U.S and later in Japan. To give you a preview of the songs from the album I have gathered 12 of my favorite Swedish artists who will each do one song from the album live with me on tape.

You will get the opportunity to meet well known artists as well as up and coming new stars, and when the videos are all released we’ll turn it into a competition where you can win signed albums of “Jonestown”.

About Emmon:
Emmon is the solo project of Emma Nylén. She is also one of the member of the Swedish pop-band Paris. The Emmon-project was started in 2001 as an experimental music vs. art project under her art studies at Konstfack University Collage of fine Art in Stockholm. Emmon’s computer based music lies on the border between pop, synth, electro and disco music. Its based on her vocal resources with a lot of attitude and melodic pop songs. She also working as a DJ and doing remixes for other bands and artists. For example: The Knife, Melody Club, Homy, Soviac, Postplay