Archive for the ‘SoLBLoMMa’ Category
Our favourite Swedish crackpot returns with ‘Dårarna’
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Nordic Music Scene #16 – News and Reviews from across Scandinavia and the Nordic Countries
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In the Midsummer night
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Tags: Dårarna, midsummer, solblomma
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Dårarna is here!
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Tags: Dårarna, Ingmar Bergman, singel, solblomma
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Soon Dårarna is coming!
Monday, May 20th, 2019
Tags: coming soon, singel, solblomma
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Solblomma and Pussy Riot
Sunday, March 24th, 2019
SOLBLOMMA is one of 40 Swedish artists who sing in support of PUSSY RIOT: “Putin will teach you to love the motherland”.
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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
Tags: airport, Charles de Gaulle, GB, review, solblomma, tv, UK
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The Terminal mix is here!
Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Tags: Charles de Gaulle, Johan Vävare, remix, solblomma, solblomma charles de gaulle the terminal, the terminal
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Enjoy Fresh Summer Sounds – Phoenix Magazine Playlist June 2018
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
We are glad to see Solblomma on the Phoenix Magazine Spotify Playlist for June 2018.
7. SoLBLoMMa
Charles de Gaulle
“My old friend Neil Mason is a man who knows about music, he founded and edits the excellent Electronic Sound Magazine and has written for NME, Melody Maker and many others. When Neil raves about a new act, I always pay attention and am always rewarded. SoLBLoMMa (Swedish, by total coincidence) is a case in point. Like an immortal Instagram Pippi Långstrump, SoLBLoMMa has been sitting alone in Charles de Gaulle for a hundred years, just waiting for you to join her for coffee and fika, and she is so terribly lonely. ‘Charles de Gaulle’ is surreal and dream-like, but poignant and heartfelt at the same time. A four-minute masterpiece from an alternative universe.“
Words: Oisin Lunny
Article:www.phoenixmag.co.uk
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SoLBLoMMa in POPMUZIK
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
“Solblomma måste ändå vara Sveriges charmigaste artist.
Med sin egensinniga stil och röst, samt hennes enorma kärlek till tåg är det svårt att inte bli charmad av hennes låtar och videor. För ett tag sedan släppte sångerskan singeln Charles de Gaulle, där hon sjunger om att hon är ensam och strandsatt på den stora flygplatsen Charles de Gaulle – lite som Tom Hanks-karaktär i filmen The Terminal.”
Charles de Gaulle Popmuzik May 2018
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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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Mastering the new Single. When the tulips bloom – it comes!
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
Tags: björn engelmann, cutting room, Johan Vävare, single, solblomma
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The Girl Under The New Moon
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
You’ll be hard pressed to find a more oddball, quirky character in the music business than Stockholm-based SoLBloMMa (Sunflower in English, and her real name). The philosophy graduate is a multi-tasker; she’s also a puppet master, a clown, a designer of online IQ games and a railway geek to rival Pete Waterman. Vocally it’s possible to detect something of Cyndi Lauper, Clare Grogan (Altered Images), Polly Scattergood and even a stoned Björk, as one critic dubbed her.
In a long career she’s been signed to EMI (she now has her own label), had chart success under a different name but has also busked her way around Europe, scored a Portuguese TV series, worked with leading jazz pianists and saxophonists and dabbled in everything from trip hop to death metal, gaining a cult following along the way. Her direction momentarily is increasingly electronic. Her public persona is a brave one to wear in a country where overt individuality frequently encourages a condescending response.
She writes quite thoughtful songs, sometimes with a slant on unrequited love but she’ll tackle any subject. This latest single is one of the few she’s recorded in her native language – most are in English – and a well known folk song there.
The next one – ‘Charles de Gaulle’, scheduled for release on 30th March, is completely different as she reprises the role of Tom Hanks in ‘The Terminal’. In typical SoLBloMMa style the supporting video was filmed not at the Paris airport but at Stockholm Arlanda and Prague airports.
By David Bentley
Tags: California, david bentley, Flickan under nymånen, folksong, solblomma
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Solblomma sings “Flickan under Nymånen”
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Tags: Bo Bergman, folksongs, KiN, solblomma, swedish folksong, Ture Rangström, visa
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