Album out March 13th on A Tenderversion Recording.
Solander is an inventive, Swedish trio making pop music
with a folky and a playful approach. Passing Mt. Satu, Solander’s
new album, was recorded and mixed in the compact darkness of Swedish winter by
Emil Isaksson at Studio Möllan in Malmö and released by the influential Swedish
label A Tenderversion Recording.
“It is the result of a collective creative process with the
songs reflecting our ever on-going travelling through a world of magical
mountains, deep woods and golden fields.” says Solander.
Solander’s playful songwriting results in an album
wherein the mood swings one song to another and keeps the listeners ear
guessing. However, everything is tightly bound together by the characteristic
voice and guitar picking of Fredrik Karlsson, the innovative playing of cellist
Anja Linna and the driven rhythm section handled by Mikael Persson! To vary
their sound, Solander adds touches of unconventional banjo playing,
metallophones, haunting organs, distorted hand-claps, a passionately played
piano and lots of other odd sounds spread throughout the album. Adding to
all of this there are also lyrics of sorrow, longing and desperation. A mix of
happiness and sadness that is best described by Solander themselves. ”The songs
we write may often sound a bit sad, but for some reason playing sad songs makes
us happy”.
Solander, originally a constellation of Gothenburg,
self released several EP’s and contributions to a few Swedish movies
Solander released their debut album Since We Are Pigeons in
2009. The album was received with open arms by press all over Europe and the US
and an extensive tour of Europe followed throughout the next year and a half.
By the end of that rigorous touring, the band solidified as a trio
and entered the studio in their newly adopted home
of Malmö to record the follow-up.
Passing Mt. Satu is Solander’s second album and
shows a more focused and determined band whose music is now finally getting
widely spread and distributed in the US.
In March 2012, Solander crosses the pond with Passing
Mt. Satu freshly released in the US (it’s already almost completely
sold out in Europe) to attend the SXSW with a two week long west coast tour to
follow.
As the title Passing Mt. Satu insinuates,
Solander wants their music to take you places, as if you’re traveling abroad
and catching disparate glimpes of a varied countryside. The name Solander
itself is also associated to the same feeling! Taken from the Swedish botanist
Daniel Solander who traveled the world in the 18th century in order to discover
and categorize new plants and animals, it’s a very fitting name for a band that
is eagerly searching for new elements to use in their music and new places to
explore.
SOLANDER IS
Fredrik Karlsson
Anja Linna
Mikael Persson
With the past/present/future help of:
Victoria Skoglund, Albin Johansson, Klas Sjöberg, Hannes Bylund, Susanna Lundgren, Jerker Kaj, Rebecka Kristiansson, Johannes Holmkvist, Carl Johan Lundgren, Marcus Sjöland, Johanna Tangnäs, Gustav Leandersson, Stefan Lingdell and Axel Sjöberg.
Victoria Skoglund, Albin Johansson, Klas Sjöberg, Hannes Bylund, Susanna Lundgren, Jerker Kaj, Rebecka Kristiansson, Johannes Holmkvist, Carl Johan Lundgren, Marcus Sjöland, Johanna Tangnäs, Gustav Leandersson, Stefan Lingdell and Axel Sjöberg.
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