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.
We did a show on House of Sweden in Washington last night. A big thank you to everyone from House of Sweden and the incredible audience for making it a lovely experience. Here’s some pics and videos from our DC visit!
Me trying to get in and meet Obama…
“As summers pass” live @ House of Sweden
“Jonestown” live @ House of Sweden
My album Jonestown is being released in the US on Tuesday! So it’s just a day from now! Hurrah! Check it out on iTunes tomorrow.
Who would have thought I’d play in Danbury twice? Here’s some videos of our way there.
On our way in the car (feat. Drexel)
This Video was shot when it actually didn’t rain as much anymore. A couple of minutes earlier a flood was going down the street outside the club.
Here’s some videos from my performances at CMJ. Thanks to Anders Hjelmtorp and Holger Carlsson at EXMS and the Swedish Consulate for inviting me to play!
Lower Case Letters live at Club Norwood
Wichita Lineman live @ CMJ, The Kimmel Centre
Adam Heldring played unplugged at the Swedish Consulate Party! Good job!
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”.