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 releasing my new album Florida on YouTube. Over a couple of months I will be doing animated videos of the lyrics to each song on the album. When the whole video version of the album is released I will compile all videos and make it available as a download.
First out is the title track of the album.
Florida
I’m excited to announce that my new album “Florida” was released worldwide today.
I’ve worked hard with the album for such a long time and it feels good to finally see it come online on all major music stores. Do you want to listen to it today?
You can stream and listen to the album from my official homepage.
I also have personally signed copies of the album and other great stuff like t-shirts, bags, lyrics and much more in the Sofia Talvik Music Shop.
You can download the album from my own private shop or these providers:
iTunes
Amazon
Rhapsody
Napster
EMusic
7Digital
or buy a CD from these providers:
Worldwide release!
In the end of October 2009 I’m releasing my third album “Jonestown” in the USA and later on 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 perform one song from the album live with me on tape. Every week a new video is released, with a new song and a new guest artist.
Way back in the 90’s I read a book called “Bensin”. The author was a girl my age, Karin Ström, and she wrote about her life in London, as an aspiring artist. Now, years later, Karin has not only released a critically acclaimed album, she’s got another one on the way.’
I’m happy to present this week’s guest artist: Karin Ström
www.myspace.com/datadamen
Sofia Talvik / Karin Ström – Lower case letters
Song: Lower case letters (Jonestown 2008)
Guest artist: Karin Ström
www.myspace.com/datadamen
www.karinstrom.se
Karin Ström was born in Kristianstad, a small town in the south of Sweden. She always wanted to be a singer. At the age of 13 she started writing her first songs. 20 years old she moved to London, where she got signed to the Canadian record label Nettwerk which led her to relocate to Los Angeles. Here, she released a self titled five track EP (US, Canada, UK and Sweden) with lyrics in English.
Back in Stockholm she wrote, produced and recorded the EP “Sneda Ögons EP” in the autumn of 2005, and released it on her own label Datadamen Records. Datadamen (originally Karin’s DJ name) means Computer Lady, and this marked a change of Karin’s sound from organic and guitarbased to electronic and computerized. She also switched languages and now sings in Swedish. The 24th of January 2007 Karin released her first full length album “En saga om en sten”.
I don’t buy music that often, especially not now that I have spotify. But I actually bought an album today, and it was bloody hard to find it. You see I saw the movie “Ghost town” a while ago and heard a song I really liked. It turned out to be Mason Jennings “Which way your heart will go” from the album “Boneclouds”. I tried his website and I tried iTunes. I’m not a fan of Amazon as nothing ever seems to be delivered when I order from them so finally through Last.fm I found a digital download site who distributed this album. It actually inspired me to write a song as I didn’t quite catch the lyrics at first and thought he sang something else which I later used in my song 🙂
I also want to share this beautiful video with you, and the music isn’t half bad either. When I find the album I just might buy it too…
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
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