Day 432
Dayflower: the latest by our Leicester friends is a song called “Mockingbird”. It is a bit different to previous releases, this one is much more acoustic and introspective. From what I understand this song is not that new, that it was actually made by two of the members years ago in their bedroom for an album that never got released.
Nos Etés Trop Courts: not too long I was interviewing Gérôme and Jimmy about this short-lived project from Nantes and learning so many details. It was quite a surprise to hear a new song today, “Moon Scream”, from their fall 1993 demo tape. I wonder how many more nice songs will Jimmy unearth for his OVVK Archives Bandcamp page! It definitely seems the Nantes, Rennes and Brittany scene of the early 90s was quite exciting!
The Korova Milk Bar: remember the interview last week? Well, well, well… the band has released a limited 10″ vinyl on Blue-Very Label of Japan!! It is called “Rain Girls & Gentle Girls”, just like one of their best songs. It has 7 tracks and right now on the label’s Bandcamp you can preview the title track (which I shared on the interview) and “Goodby Flip-Flap Guitar”. I would recommend everyone getting it. I would if only the Japanese shipping costs to the US were more “normal”. Top stuff.
Nico Nico: it’s been a while since I heard a Peruvian jangle pop band. This is a nice discovery then! An 8-song album titled “El Azulito” and no other details. I look into their Facebook page to see if there’s any other info. Not really. I see a band of four people on a photo. My favourite song out of the 8 is “Tomás Valle”.
Marmalade: from the early 90s, from Denton, Texas. I have never heard this band and would be interesting to interview them and find out more. They released two cassette albums, “Promise You the Moon” (1992) and “In So Many Words (1993)” and then disappeared. Luckily 15 of their songs are now on Bandcamp. Jangly and poppy. It is also worth mentioning that they also go by A Band Called Marmalade because of a problem with a UK 60s-70s band called Marmalade.
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Now let’s head to Sweden. Again my friend David Chalé picked my curiosity as he posted a song by Violett called “Utsikt”.
I am aware of this Swedish band thanks to the compilation “A Chance to Shine. A Dorian Compilation” that came out in 1996 on Dorian Records, the label our friend Roger Gunnarsson ran when he was still in Halmstad.
On this compilation we find the song “Mitt Fel” which actually opens the CD. The only information we get on the booklet of the CD about the band is that the song is credited to M. Cervin and M. Wemrell. But we know few more things. We know that this song was also the opening track of a self-titled demo tape that was released in 1996.
This demo tape had four songs, “Mitt Fel”, “När Du Talar Till Mig”, “Trasig Ring” and “Utsikt”. all songs had being recorded and mixed at Studio Mary M in Ystad in the month of July of 1995. Wow, Ystad. The city of Wallander. I want to go one day. Did the band hailed from there then? Indeed. The contact info on the demo tape indicates they were from there!
Speaking of the band we know that ti was formed by Mårten Cervin, Dan Lindgren and Daniel Permbo. And when it came ot the songs we know that Daniel Permbo wrote “När Du Talar Till Mig”, “Trasig Ring” and “Utsikt”, while “Mitt Fel” is credited to Maria Wemrell. I wonder who she is. For the music, we see that all songs are credited to Mårten but “När Du Talar Till Mig” where the music is credited to Dan Lindgren.
The only other info on the demo tape is a credit for the photo on the sleeve which was taken by Martin Gustavsson. Ah! and the tape has a label, Clown Productions. The tape is CLOWN003.
I look for the band members then. I believe Mårten has been playing keyboards with a singer songwriter called Fredrik Larsson as of late. I don’t find any music related projects by Daniel Permbo but I think he has his own film/animation company called DejPej Film and has made this cool video about the city and Wallader! Even cooler he used a Sambassadeur song as background music for the video. Class.
I found a Maria Wemrell who is a post-doctoral fellow at Lund University. It is still Skåne. Could it be the same Maria?
I couldn’t find any other info about Violett’s music. But this was some nice background info. Hopefully we’ll learn more about the band in the near future! Hålla tummarna!
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Violett – Utsikt
