Day 457
Jane and John: from London comes this cool duo that started during the pandemic. They have released three songs so far. The latest two are brand new, “Here at Last” and “Boing Boing”. They are fun electronic pop, influenced by Helen Love I’d say. Or if you liked Supercute, that’s a good comparison too. This is great. Fun, addictive pop!
Famous Mammals: we head to Oakland, California, now to discover this combo of lo-fi pop. They released a self-titled EP last month and it is still available. It comes with 10 songs of bedroom pop goodness, an amateur-ish vibe that can easily win over your heart (and ears).
Amor Butano: now I am checking the Madrid based label Jeanne D’Arc and I discover a few things. The first one is a cassette titled “Benimaclet” by the Valencia band Amor Butano. The tape, which is still available, has 4 songs of fun straight up wavey synthpop. Good summer music.
Perdón: the next one I wanted to tell you about from Jeanne D’Arc is the band Perdón from Murcia, Spain. They have a tape also. It is called “Te Invito a mi Fiesta” and it is an 8-song album. This one is much more an indiepop record. With male/female vocals, fun melodies, catchy choruses, you know, all the stuff we like! The band is formed by Arturo, Irene and Leyre, and of course I will keep an eye on them!
Dismal Plight: our friend Gustav from the fantastic Salt Lake Alley has another project that you should know about. That’s how I want to end the week! Presenting you the two songs he has on Soundcloud as they are really good, especially “A Man Who’s Already Drowning” which I think is terrific! The other song is good too, “I Want to Take You There” but it is much less indiepop, more of a post punk song. So give them a listen, they won’t disappoint.
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After I wrote about the Swedish band Violett my friend David shared with me yet another wonderful demo tape from Sweden, Alexis’ “…In Sun” from 1995.
I looked for more info on Discogs but it is not listed there. But I can tell you a few details about this Swedish band and maybe you can help me fill in the rest.
The tape released by Clown Productions, the same as Violett (!), had 5 songs, “Afternoon Tea”, “Barbie”, “Sunny Side Up”, “Meadow” and “Sunbeams”. As mentioned it was released in 1995 and that same year was when the band recorded and mixed the songs at Studio Mary in Ystad. Oh! Ystad again!
Right, so there is a connection between both bands! So in Alexis all songs are by Daniel Permbo while the music is by Mårten Cervin (with the exception of “Sunbeams” which is by Cervin and Dan Lindgren). Okay, these three are the same band members as in Violett! The Violett tape is also from 1995. Why did they have two different bands?!
This is truly a mystery to me. On the sleeve of the tape we find what each of them played on this tape.
M. Cervin: lead and backing vocals, guitars
D. Lindgren: bass, backing vocals on “Barbie” and grand piano on “Sunbeams:
D. Permbo: drums and percussion
All of them are credited for keyboards, handclaps and fingersnaps. The design of the sleeve is credited to the band and the oil painting for the sleeve to Daniel Permbo.
In my post about Violett I mentioned some of the stuff I found about the band members, but I’ll add them here just in case!
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 Wallander! Even cooler he used a Sambassadeur song as background music for the video. Class.
No more information. But now we know two bands by this trio. Will we find more about them soon? A third band? A fourth? This is quite interesting!
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Alexis – Meadow
