Jan Garbarek - Molde Canticle

Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947 in Mysen, Norway) is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres. Garbarek was the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czeslaw Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. Effectively stateless till the age of seven (there is no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway) Garbarek grew up in Oslo. At 21, he married Vigdis. His daughter Anja Garbarek is also a musician. He has also played the bass saxophone.

Todays tune is a lovely piece of european jazz.



More info @ Garbarek at ECM

Anna Ternheim - Black Sunday Afternoon

Anna Ternheim (born May 31, 1978) is a Swedish singer-songwriter who performs in English. She released her debut album Somebody Outside in 2004. She has been awarded for Best Newcomer of the year,Best Female Artist and Best Lyricist.

"To Be Gone", "My Secret", "Girl Laying Down", "Today is A Good Day", and "Shoreline" (a Broder Daniel cover) remain her most popular songs.

I saw her performing at Popaganda a week ago and that was totally magic.

Todays tune "Black Sunday Afternoon" is taken from her latest album "Leaving On A Mayday". This performance was broadcasted on Nyhetsmorgon by TV4, a swedish tv channel.

Enjoy this wonderful piece.



The art work for the latest album is done by Helena Blomqvist.


More info @ Anna Ternheim Offical Website or Anna Ternheim at MySpace

James Yorkston - Martinmas Time

James Yorkston is a Scottish folk musician, born 1971.
Yorkston is primarily a singer-songwriter, although he also plays a variety of traditional songs. Yorkston started out as bassist for punk band Miraclehead, who morphed into the band Huckleberry who recorded a number of independently released records. In August 2009, James released his sixth album "Folk Songs".
This is an album of traditional songs, arranged and performed by James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players

The first single from the Folk Songs album is Martinmas Time.
The single (7") is backed by a non album track - Nottanum Town, the single is a limited edition of 300. Each with individual hand made sleeves.
Enjoy todays tune "Martinmas Time"




More info @ James Yorkstons Official website

Nick Drake - Day is Done

Nick Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician.

Todays tune 'Day is Done' from Nick Drake's legendary first album 'Five Leaves Left', 1969
With a wonderful voice like this, light and grave, this is one of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded.


When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

Enjoy!

Calle Real - Ábreme la puerta

This band is a salsa, timba sorta music, so its not my kind
but it was kinda groovy tunes that they had.

Calle Real its prenouced Caje´Reall.
Saturday night they visited Tyrol in Stockholm
infront of a very much dancinfg crowd.

They are very famous in France, usually they play
for a crowd of 30.000 peeps. Now thats something!

Calle Real is a Timba band from Sweden founded in 1999. Calle Real is now twelve guys who play modern timba with distinctive pop influences. Its well arranged and tightly played music for the club scene. Theres a definite heavy groove with a sound that differs from the masses.

Several of them have spent long periods in Cuba and have studied music, although no one in the band is actually Cuban except Rickard Valdés, who is the son of the legendary pianist Bebo Valdés and who is half Cuban. There are a variety of ethnic origins within the band, including Patricio Sobrado who has his origins in Chile and the trumpet player, Jacek Onuskiewicz and the trombone player, Cezary Tomaszewski originate in Poland, but all of them grew up in Sweden.

Ladys and Gents, may I present to U, CALLE REAL.

Enjoy!

Cheerio, Thetania

Florence Valentin - Såld Är Såld

Florence Valentin is a Swedish pop rock punk band and include members as Love Antell; August Berg; Daniel Kurba; Sebastian Ross; Magnus Jonsson; Jonny Calzone and Mats-Peter Krantz. Both text and music is written by the bands singer Love Antell.

Florence Valentin grounded in 2002 and got their breakthrough the year after with the tune "Allt dom bygger upp ska vi meja ner". Debut album "Johnny Drama" released 2004. Follow-up album "Pokerkväll i Vårby Gård", released in June 2007 and the latest album "Spring Ricco" in 25 Mars 2009.



Yesterday did these guys a great show on the main stage at the festival Popaganda.
Was never expecting that these guys should explode with such much energy on stage that they did, almost fall over my case and right through the monitor desk ;)
These guys really can rock and I enjoyed it.

Got their record last night and i rellay looking forward to listen thru it.
Todays tune is from that album and its one of my favourite so far, this tune really shaked the audience last night, was amazing to see it.

Tune of the day is "Såld Är Såld" and this video is taken form a gig at Storsjöyran in Östersund July 30, 2009, enjoy this Swedish piece.




More info @ Florence Valentins Offical Website Florence Valentin @ MySpace

Johnossi - Bobby

Johnossi is a rock duo from Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of songwriter, singer, guitarist John Engelbert and drummer, percussionist, singer Oskar "Ossi" Bonde. Their music has been on Tune of the day a couple of times before.
Yesterday did Johnossi enter the main stage at Popaganda festival.
As im use to with these guys that they really rock your shirt of live and yes they did it again, the only bad thing was that was set to early, would rather see these guys rock later on but the show was amazing. The guys are great to work with and a huge thanks to Joel, the backline tech who is always great to work with.

In 2009, Johnossi made their first appearances in Japan, supporting The Hives.
Soon Johnossi will enter the studio for a new album and it will be released during spring 2010. Todays tune "Bobby" is take from the latest album "All They Ever Wanted"

Enjoy!