Thank you Västerås.

Thank you everyone that came to watch the gig at Mälarrocken, Västerås.
It had been raining all day, but when I started playing the sun broke trough.
Hope you enjoyed the gig, I know I did.

Here are some pictures from the gig:
Mälarrocken i VästeråsMälarrocken i VästeråsMälarrocken i Västerås

Making the video – in Gothenburg!

So today I'm off to my old home town Gothenburg, to shoot the video for my upcoming single Mother's Way, Father's Way.
My very talanted friend Emelie Asplund is going to produce it. She's also the photographer that supplies me with beautiful press pics.

Here's a photo of me and Emelie when we were in the Phillippines last year (she's going to kill me when she finds out I've posted it here. :shock:)
Emelie Asplund & Sofia Talvik

Making the video, day 1

Today we started shooting the video for my upcoming single "It's just love". A short but intense day on location and an extra hour outside in the cold winter night we had two thirds of the video recorded. Click for larger picture.

me

and Jonas, producer

Beautiful Bass

It’s been a hectic week to say the least. I decided to skip one of the songs for the album (as everybody thought it was horrible except me, haha) and had to choose and record a new one. I decided for yet another song with the word “shoe” in the lyrics and probably will have to rename the entire album to “shoes” now 🙂 .We decided not to put Baby, eeerr I mean Anders, in the corner anymore (as he was forced to be there during the recordings of the last album, that studio simply wasn’t big enough for him and his bass) so we even gave him his own room this time. Check out the video here:

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I’m nothing but truly impressed of the way he nailed all these songs in just six hours. We rehearsed a few of them for the gig at Landet and the radio gig last week but there were several he never heard before and he did brilliantly! Even the song “Holding your hand” which he renamed “the Zappa-song” because of all the half times hidden in it. Being unrehearsed may not be the ultimate way of doing it but I must say it does add a kind of nerv that you don’t get if you know the songs too well.

Anyway, next week we’ll be recording Marcus and his guitars, yep he’ll be doing both acustic and electric this time. And I’ll record the last song for the album (no shoes in that one), which I have to do in the studio where we recorded the bass, because I have to play and sing at the same time.

In the meantime, listen to a sample from “I won the first price tonight”

take care now and I’ll see you all next week.

The studio
Me as the true technician.. press "rec" press "stop"... Jonas, behind the camera, did all the real work.
No wonder we had to give Anders a bigger room, we couldn't even fit him into one frame...
It's a kind of magic: the other halft of Anders
Now here's the big picture! With a bit of a distance we managed to get all of him. Isn't it beautiful, well it sure sounds beautiful!