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Review in “God is in the TV” (Uk)
Monday, October 1st, 2018
(Sweden) SoLBLoMMa – Charles de Gaulle (The Terminal Mix)
Stockholm’s Queen of Quirkiness returns with a re-mix of a track released earlier in the year – ‘Charles de Gaulle’. But this isn’t any old remix. It marks the return after 20 years no less of legendary Swedish producer Johan Vävare, known as the Brian Eno of his country, who apparently now resides in Vietnam and whose production skills have not been heard on any Swedish release since the late 1990s.
In the 80s and 90s Vävare established himself as one of Sweden’s leading music talents, with soundscapes and ideas that were integral parts of classic recordings with a host of Swedish stars too long to mention but which did include the Bowie-a-like Thomas di Leva, who is himself undergoing a renaissance at the moment.
I lost count of the instruments and paraphernalia Vävare’s added here – everything from a harpsichord to an alarm clock – but nothing overshadows the almost plaintive piano riff, which he left untouched. The line “Attention please, will all passengers travelling with SoLBLoMMa to Planet Earth please report to the information desk” is pure genius.
Vävare said, “One day I happened to find SoLBLoMMa online – an irresistible blend of Goldfrapp, Pippi Longstocking and Albert Einstein. I just had to make contact with her! I mean, how many other artists create IQ-tests in their spare time? I really love this song… Emptiness. Time that stands still. A crazy, lonely lady walking around the terminal talking to herself” … “The airplane will come and get me”. Her dreams of flying away… elsewhere… sometime… maybe…”
It speaks volumes about SoLBLoMMa’s idiosyncratic appeal that Vävare was tempted out of retirement to do this re-mix. She’s an acquired taste but more than ever we need these people operating at the margins of society to help keep us sane.
‘Charles de Gaulle (The Terminal Mix by Johan Vävare)’ was released as a single on September 14th and is featured on the EP ‘Come and Have a Coffee with Me at Charles de Gaulle’ (released September 28th).
That EP also features a remix by EvOLu who works with members of Depeche Mode and Peaches and contains the original single mix and two new remixes by Solblomma herself.
8/10
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The Terminal Out Now!
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Efter att det engelska livsstilsmagasinet PHOENIX Magazine hyllat hennes senaste poppärla Charles de Gaulle som ”ett mästerverk från ett alternativt universum” släpper idag SoLBLoMMa – Sveriges kanske mest egensinniga artist – sin med stort intresse emotsedda nya singel Charles de Gaulle (The Terminal Mix by Johan Vävare). Singeln bjuder på det första svenska livstecknet på närmare tjugo år (!) från den legendariske och mytomspunne producenten och musikern Johan Vävare. Sedan flera år tillbaka bor Vävare i nordöstra Thailand och SoLBLoMMas singel är första gången sedan det förra milleniet som hans unika sound och fantasirika produktionsteknik hörs i Sverige.
– En dag bara hittade henne på nätet – en oemotståndlig blandning av Goldfrapp, Pippi Långstrump och Albert Einstein, konstaterar Johan Vävare. Jag var ju bara tvungen att ta kontakt! Jag menar hur många artister bygger IQ-tester som hobby?
Om sitt studioarbete med The Terminal Mix berättar Vävare:
– Jag ville ta fram bagladyn i låten. Tomheten. Tiden som står still. Den tokiga, ensamma damen som går runt i terminalen och pratar för sig själv…”the aeroplane will come and get me”. Hennes drömmar om att få flyga iväg någon annanstans… någon gång… kanske…
Den svenska synthpionjären Johan Vävare etablerade sig på 80- och 90-talet som något av “en svensk Brian Eno” och hans innovativa produktionsbidrag till klassiska inspelningar med bl.a Ratata och Mauro Scocco, Reeperbahn och Olle Ljungström, Thomas Di Leva, Lädernunnan / The Leather Nun, Lustans Lakejer, Lars Demian (Demian D), Stonefunkers, Eggstone, Tom Wolger’s Mockba Music, Caroline af Ugglas, Fréda, Ubangi med Orup and Cia Berg, Martin Rössell, Lars Cleveman och Kitchen & The Plastic Spoon, samt även Bo Kaspers Orkester, Traste Lindéns Kvintett och Marie Bergman, har placerat honom i en helt egen kategori på den svenska musikscenen.
Samarbetet med SoLBLoMMa har för övrigt nu även resulterat i att den svenska artisten medverkar som sångerska i Vävares asiatiska produktioner.
Det engelska livsstilsmagasinet Phoenix hyllade i våras poppärlan Charles de Gaulle som såväl innerligt gripande som surrealistisk och drömsk – ”a four-minute masterpiece from an alternative universe.” SoLBLoMMa har tidigare i år uppmärksammats även av andra engelska musikbloggar (toomanyblogs, Gig Soup etc) och i maj presenterade den stora engelska bloggen God Is In The TV som ”a unique performer with a unique vocal”.
Charles de Gaulle (The Terminal Mix by Johan Vävare) släpps idag worldwide på samtliga stora digitala plattformar (Spotify, Tidal, iTunes, Apple Music,Google Play etc).
”A four-minute masterpiece from an alternative universe”
PHOENIX Magazine (UK)
”A unique performer with a unique vocal”
God Is In The TV (UK)
”Sveriges charmigaste artist”
Popmuzik.se
SoLBLoMMa Charles de Gaulle (The Terminal Mix by Johan Vävare) ISRC: SE3DA1801701 Skivbolag: COMEDIA Distribution: Phonofile / The Orchard Releasedatum: 14 september
Tags: airport, Charles de Gaulle, Comedia, Johan Vävare, Paris, solblomma
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SoLBLoMMa by V. Hauser
Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Tags: Charles de Gaulle, Johan Vävare, singer, solblomma, Thomas di leva
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Midsommar-räknartävling!
Thursday, June 28th, 2018
Tags: come count the sheep, contest, tävling
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A Masterpiece from an Alternative Universe
Sunday, June 10th, 2018
Tags: Charles de Gaulle, Phoenix magazine, popmusik, solblomma
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SoLBLoMMa in God is In The TV
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
SoLBLoMMa – Charles de Gaulle
Featured in the first Nordic Music Scene (March) Stockholm-based SoLBLoMMa, a unique performer with a unique vocal (although recently I detected a similarity with her compatriot Robyn) and a nice line in alternative sad ballads, returns with ‘Charles de Gaulle’.
In it she uses the metaphor of the loneliness of the huge airport terminal for the “every man is an island” solitude of personal life in the social media-dominated 21st Century, asking anyone who passes by to “come and sit here next to me”…I’ve been here for a century” in a similar way indeed to what Tim Booth did on ‘Sit Down’. Ok, so it does not have the hymn-like qualities of that classic song but this idiosyncratic polymath has a long experience of many musical genres, a cult-like following and assuredly something to say.
Once famously described by a critic as “Think Depeche Mode booted out the back of a transit on a cold, dark winter’s night, think Lykke Li taken by the dark side, think Kylie with Winehouse’s problems, think Emilíana Torrini on 45, Björk dating Goldie … oh, hang on… well, then we begin to see something remotely resembling SoLBLoMMa” she’s well worth a listen although her inherent quirkiness is not quite so apparent on this track.
GOD IS IN THE TV Musik Blog UK
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Charles de Gaulle (Tax Free) – Video!
Saturday, April 28th, 2018
Tags: airplane, airport, arlanda, Charles de Gaulle, solblomma, Václav Havel
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Solblomma NEW song!
Friday, April 13th, 2018
Charles de Gaulle is the first international single in a year from Swedish pop princess SoLBLoMMa (a “one of a kind artist”, if there ever was one!) and follows last year´s single Still Happy, that spread her name to English bloggers (toomanyblogs, Gigsoup, God Is In The TV a.o.). The track will next month be released in a handful of exclusive remixes – for instance one by the Swedish music maverick Johan Vävare who moved to Thailand more than 20 years ago, and hasn’t been heard of since. A music video accompanying the single will soon be released.
SoLBLoMMa is colourful with an exceptional personal expression. Quirky, original and totally alone in her uniqueness in Sweden. The English music journalist Neil Mason (former NME) has described her like this in the Electronic Magazine: “Think Depeche Mode booted out the back of a transit on a cold, dark winter’s night, think Lykke Li taken by the darkside, think Kylie with Winehouse’s problems, think Emilliana Torrini on 45, Bjork dating Goldie… oh, hang on… well, then we begin to see something remotely resembling Solblomma. With eyes you could stand teacups on, she’s got something of the Cheryl Cole about her… only with a Katie Price makeover… at night… with doll’s clothes. Sounds original, check, looks original, check. You could file comfortably under the current 80s electro revival and no one would bat an eyelid.” 
Tags: Charles de Gaulle, Johan Vävare, pop princess, solblomma, the terminal
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Sol-IQ Kids is here – also an APP created by Solblomma!
Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
This is a unique and innovative APP for testing/training logic thinking created by the swedish pop-singer and artist Solblomma. Her ”patented” dolls and trains are used to create a very special game feeling.
Tags: games, puzzles for kids, Sol-IQ
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Sol-IQ is here – an APP created by Solblomma!
Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
This is a unique and innovative APP for testing/training logic thinking created by the swedish pop-singer and artist Solblomma. Her ”patented” dolls and trains are used to create a very special game feeling.
Tags: apps, intelligence, IQ-game, IQ-tests, Sol-IQ, Sol-IQ Kids, solblomma
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Cozy Tour with Miriam
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Tags: miriam, solblomma, tour, travel
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Solblomma playing at East West, Örebro!
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Tags: live at heart, örebro, solblomma
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Solblomma Scandic Elvy
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Tags: live at heart, örebro, solblomma
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SoLBLoMMa, Miriam and The SHEEP-army in Gävle Gasklocka
Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
Tags: army, festival, gävle gas, Gefle, indie, live, miriam, sheep
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SoLBLoMMa New Single – Still Happy
Thursday, April 13th, 2017
COMEDIA presents:
After last year’s releases of both a new album and the retrospective collection “Zombic Bombs & Dr. Pouts” on her own label Blomkraft, SoLBLoMMa takes on to the future with new partners. At the beginning of the year she was contracted by COMEDIA, today she releases the single “Still happy” where SoLBLoMMa – who recently returned home from a business trip to Los Angeles – presents itself with new exciting sounds and a partially new electronic sound.
SoLBLoMMa is unique and colorful with an exceptional personal expression. Quirky, original and totally alone in its uniqueness in Music Sweden. The English music journalist Neil Mason (former NME) has described her like this in the Electronic Magazine.
“Think Depeche Mode booted out the back of a transit on a cold, dark winter’s night, think Lykke Li taken by the darkside, think Kylie with Winehouse’s problems, think Emilliana Torrini on 45, Bjork dating Goldie… oh, hang on… well, then we begin to see something remotely resembling Solblomma. With eyes you could stand teacups on, she’s got something of the Cheryl Cole about her… only with a Katie Price makeover… at night… with doll’s clothes. Sounds original, check, looks original, check. You could file comfortably under the current 80s electro revival and no one would bat an eyelid.”
Still Happy is produced by Håkan Folkesson and shortly this single release is followed up with an EP containing remixes by Eddie Cabrera, Carl-Q modulator and Berlin-based Evolu.
SoLBLoMMa is Still Happy – now begins the next chapter!
COMEDIA presenterar:
Efter att förra året ha släppt såväl ett nytt album som den retrospektiva samlingen Zombic Bombs & Dr. Pouts på egna etiketten Blomkraft tar SoLBLoMMa i vår sikte på framtiden med nya samarbetspartners. I början av året kontrakterades hon av COMEDIA, som idag släpper singeln Still Happy där SoLBLoMMa – som nyligen återvände hem från en arbetsresa till Los Angeles – presenterar sig med nya spännande klanger och ett delvis helt nytt elektroniskt sound.
SoLBLoMMa är en unikt färgstark fågel med ett exceptionellt personligt uttryck. Udda, originell och helt ensam om sin särart i Musiksverige. Den engelska musikjournalisten Neil Mason (tidigare New Musical Express) har beskrivit henne så här i Electronic Magazine.
”Föreställ dig att Depeche Mode blir utsparkade ur turnébussen en kall, mörk vinternatt, samtidigt som Lykke Li blir tagen av den mörka sidan. Tänk dig Kylie med Winehouse-problem, Emiliana Torrini spelad på 45 varv och Kate Bush uppträdandes påtänd under Björks dejt med Goldie…Ja – då får vi något som kan liknas vid Solblomma. Med ögon man kan ställa tekoppar på finns det något av Cheryl Cole över henne … men med en nattlig Katie Price-makeover … med dockkläder. Det låter originellt. Check. Det ser originellt ut. Check. Man skulle med lätthet kunna ordna in musiken under den rådande trenden av 80-talsinfluerad elektronica med postpunksinslag och ingen skulle höja på ögonbrynen.”
Still Happy är producerad av Håkan Folkesson och inom kort följs det här singelsläppet upp med en EP innehållande remixer av bl.a Eddie Cabrera, Carl-q-Lator och Berlin-baserad EvOLu.
SoLBLoMMa är Still Happy – nu börjar nästa kapitel!
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