Day 153
Tampopo: 4 cool songs from this Copenhagen based band are now available on their Bandcamp on the “Poppy Felties for Everyone” EP. These songs are really cool as they are tributes to people we all know, our friend Heinz from Hamburg gets a song called “Heinz, Hamburg’s Not so Far Away”, then David from Madrid gets “Casio”, “La Merienda” is a song about the Spanish radio show and “Lynn Chan” is of course about Lynn who makes the lovely felties!
The Reds, Pinks & Purples: two more by the prolific Glenn Donaldson from San Francisco. The new jangly songs are called “New Light” and “Poems & Pictures”. They are great as usual.
Arrest! Charlie Tipper: the album “Red” should be out on September 21st on the Greek label Old Bad Habits! AT this moment we can preview two songs from the ex-Groove Farm, Beatnik Filmstars, Rorschach, Rosehips, and more legendary bands members. Yeah legendary in Bristol and everywhere else we love indiepop. The two songs for preview out of the 11 songs on the album are “Shelf” and “Don’t Leave Me Alone”.
Cor Blanc: another great release out now on Galaxy Train Records from Japan is a 7 song mini-album by a duo formed by Mireia and Sergi from Barcelona! It sounds really lovely, naive and dreamy pop. I wonder why I had never heard them before! They even have toured across Italy and Japan!
The Sastro: who are The Sastro? it seems that the 8 songs that are available on Anoa Records from Jakarta were recorded back in 2005. It must be a band from that great first wave of Indonesian indiepop. But I don’t remember them! But hey that’s not a bad thing, it is great that I am rediscovering them!
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“Fläskfarmen” (The Pork Farm) is a 1986 Swedish comedy film directed by Lars Molin . The roles include Ingvar Hirdwall , Bo Brundin and Knut Pettersen . The doctor at an asylum decides that it would be good for the patients if they could take care of a few pigs. This turns out so well that they start selling pigs to make money. The patients gets saner for every day that goes by and the staff start to behave rather strangely.
That’s a little synopsis I found on IMDB of the 1986 Swedish film that I am quite sure inspired the name of the Swedish band Fläskfarmen. Now the two songs the band released are pretty great. They are as far as I know the only proper release they put out. So let’s find out more about them!
The band was formed by:
Georga (Peter Öfverberg) on guitar and vocals
Saba (Lars Ekstrand( on guitar, vocals and harmonica
Soda (P-O Nilsson) on bass
Ricke (Rickard Jonsson) on drums
Lotta Björn and Ove on backing vocals
The band would release a 7″ in 1988 on the label PLC Records (PLC 806-01). Their release is the only one listed on this label so it might be a good guess to say that it was a self-release. We know too that the band produced the record with Peter Jingsätter who had been in bands like Blue Heaven, Face It and Modest Attraction.
The songs on the record were “Blundar & Ser” on the A side, written by Georga, and “Min Sång” on the B side written by Saba.
Something quite interesting is that the front cover has a photo of the famous Swedish football coach Sven-Göran Eriksson.
Georga and Lotta would later be in 2271, Seventh Wave and Tambumajoren. Soda would sing in one of the Danish popstar Mirah’s albums.
And that’s all I could find. Happily I just found a copy of the record for a decent price. But I definitely want to know more about them. The songs sound pretty good with boy/girl vocals and catchy melodies! Where in Sweden were they based? What are they up to these days? Did they record more songs? Any help would be great!
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Listen
Fläskfarmen – Blundar & Ser
