Canadian Music Zine “Riveting Riffs” has just published a fresh interview with me!
Read the full 2 page interview here:
Sofia Talvik on Riveting Riffs
New video released
So you thought my last music video was retro with its 50’s theme? Well you aint seen nothing yet! This is the new video for my single “Clown” and this time I decided I would do it all by myself. So I did all the make-up and styling and filmed it (yes I used a camera stand). Then I cut it and edited it. But I’m not ready to throw away Jonas’ fabulous producer skills just yet, I did have him help me creating the “burn-out” effect on the last few frames of the vid 😉
This is the first music video I’ve ever made and the second video I’ve made..ever (you’ve probably seen the behind the scenes video to “My James Dean”). I was inspired by old pictures and the creepy sense of the circus that the TV series “Carnivale” captured so well. The entire video was shot in my bedroom (but I won’t do a Pamela just yet), and the fab hat and stick was borrowed from my friend Theresia, they used to belong to her grandpa..
Rave review from Ninthspace
I just got this lovely review from Ninthspace! Thank you so much! 🙂
“I guess, by the time a musician gets to their third album they know whether it’s going to work out for them. Not writing, recording and touring as a hobby, but embracing their talents and working with something that’s turned out to be innate to their existence. There are perhaps a handful of musicians that I could categorise in such a way.
With the release of Jonestown, Sofia Talvik easily gets over the idea of the difficult third album (younger sibling of the difficult second album) and turns out a collection that eclipses her first two. Opening track and lead single As Summers Pass recalls the past with its acoustic progressions, but the subsequent song My James Dean is astonishing.
Because it’s not what you’re expecting. Sure it has these synth pads that appear to hang over from its predecessor, but the guitar loops lower, more geared towards grooving. The best way I can describe it is the merging of the droning synth-rock of Stereolab and the sub-Spektor inclinations of El Perro del Mar with piano too.
Over the top of this comes Sofia’s outstanding vocals and a plaintiff declaration that I’m not that special. But she is.
Jag träffade Sveriges radio-hunk!
Fredrik bakom rattarna
För det får man ju kalla honom, Fredrik Eliasson på Sveriges radio p4 (och nej jag försöker inte fjäska till mig mer spelningar i radio, men Fredrik om du läser detta.. det skulle inte skada, hehe). Jag och trummisjocke gick upp i ottan och spelade för alla 08-or i morse, men förtvivla inte Boråsbor och Malmöiter. Ni kan ju lyssna här:
http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=broadcast&id=1329707
Jocke fick sig lite frukost efter morgongigget! (Kvinnan i bakgrunden har inget med bloggen att göra och vill vara anonym.)
Sen, efter allt mitt klagande på recensenter måste jag väl ändå publicera den här fina recensionen från Hennes, så att ni förstår att jag inte vill slå alla recensenter på käften (bara vissa).
Svårläst? Kika in på min hemsida www.sofiatalvik.com för en större bild.
Inte en sovmorgon i sikte
I morgon ska jag nämligen upp och sjunga för alla stockholmare kl 8 på morgonen i radio Stockholm. Så ratta in det på era radioapparater! Idag har jag lärt mig allt om hom(m)osocialité och homosexualitet (var det en skilnad där sa du?). Vad hände egentligen? Jag trodde ju att jag skulle gå en kurs i mode i film, inte sexualitet i historien. Jaja.. så hamnade man på en sex-kurs. Ja alltid lär man sig nåt! Min singel “My James Dean” har seglat in på p3 och studentradio-listorna nu i alla fall så nu kommer jag att förpesta (eller försköna, hur man nu vill se det) din radio i tid och otid. Om ni vill slippa lyssna på mig rekommenderar jag att ni rattar in p1.