I've found "my" radio station....

I have been looking all over for a web radio with a totally international mix... haven't found it, and then it was at the Swedish National Radio all along.... SR Sverige is this lovely channels name.
I listened far to long last night with a big smile on my lips and in my heart.

This is how they present themselves:

"SR Sverige is a digital radio channel with hit music from the whole wide world.

On our channel you can hear tunes from Lebanon, Mali, the USA, Scotland, Iraq, France, Brazil, Cuba, Siberia, Madagascar, India and Sweden, all in the space of half an hour! Sick of the run of the mill monotonous pop music from your usual station? Then SR Sverige is the place for you!"

And yes... that fits right into my musical taste... look at this playlist for example...

• Tomatito "Al Mariyya"
• Chiara Civello "Here Is Everything"
• DV8 "Kera Tera Mul"
• Ray Charles "Georgia On My Mind"
• Think Of One "Sable D'Or"
• Shantel "Bucovina (Haaksman & Haaksman Soca Bogle Mix)"
• Cesaria Evora "Monte Cara"
• Rachid Taha "En Retard"
• Markscheider Kunst "Kvasa Kvasa"
• Malouma "Char´Aa"
• Shoukichi Kina/ Champloose "Celebration Reggae"
• Dusminguet "San Cristóbal"
• Karen Matheson "Early Morning Grey

All these played in the same hour... Yay!!!!

Totally awesome video

I found this video: Breathe Me by Sia at the Naive Knitting Blog. So beautiful and creative...

"The Gathering" - Väsen

Next band I want to present to you is Väsen - a Swedish folk music band. I heard the band members play in various constellations at the Korrö Folk Music Festival. It was a rare treat ;-)
Bart has written an extensive fan page about them - scroll it down and you'll get to know them a bit... Do look it up!!
The songs on "The Gathering" CD is from their first record "Väsen" and more traditional in style than the later ones... Here is a video from the Nordic Roots Festival of later date.

Dualdisc Debacle - CD 2 "Today" - playlist

• 01 Lonely Sometimes - Waterdeep - Sink or Swim
• 02 Obsession - Delirious - Deeper Disc 2
• 03 Undo Me - Jennifer Knapp - Kansas
• 04 Those Who Trust - Waterdeep - Enter the Worship Circle
• 05 Today - Iona - Iona Live: Heaven's Bright Sun Disc 1
• 06 Du är mitt ljus - Bengt Johansson - fästpunkt
• 07 Surrender - Marcus James - Come Now Is The Time To Worship
• 08 How Can I Keep From Singing - Eva Cassidy - Eva by Heart
• 09 Today (As for me and my house) - Kathryn Scott - Satisfy
• 10 Improv - 100 Portraits and Waterdeep - Enter the Worship Circle
• 11 The Danse - Kemper Crabb - The Vigil
• 12 Today (Hebrews 3 and 4) - Waterdeep - Enter the Worship Circle
• 13 Shackles (praise You) - Mary Mary - Thankful
• 14 Be Thou My Vision - Van Morrison - Hymns to the Silence Disc 2
• 15 T-Hule Beannachd (The Blessing) - The Electrics - Visions and Dreams
• 16 Gammal Fäbodpsalm - Carola - Störst Av Allt

Why it's called Today??? Read the playlist again ;-)

Picked up the Covers

from print shop today!! (I have no printer yet myself...). I am so pleased with the glossy paper!! I had planned to use jewelcases but.... that would put up postage by the double :-O so I made cases from Jorma Oksanens excellent origami instructions!! And lo and behold... the CDs are on their way now!!

DualDiscDebacle - Cover Art is now off for print....

I'm not completely happy but I have to stop here ... time to send it out!!! It is supposed to be folded in the middle. I wanted to have more ethnic elements in it but still it has a Medieval arch, an African harper and a Swedish, Dalecarlian couple and flowers. I'm missing the jiddish, balcanic, ucrainian, arabic, spanish and brazilian touch though.... (a lot that is LOL).


All images are from my keeping (paintings and such). I do like the bold colours!!! The biggest hazzle was to make the song titles and artists fit in - readable AND looking nice. I had to settle for readable. Well, well.

Yay!!!

CD 2 called "Today" are all in 5 copies burned today!!! Just need to listen through all CDs due to some burning mishaps... don't want you to get bad copies ;-)

Albumart soon done, hope to get it printed and CDs out in mail in the next couple of days!!!

"The Gathering" - Sabbath Hela Veckan

Sabbath Hela Veckan (Sabbath All The Week) is one of the most represented bands on this compilation. I discovered them this summer when preparing for Korrö Folk Music Festival and fell in love!!! When I heard them live they were even better...

This Klezmer Orchestra is Stockholm based and their members comes from Sweden, USA and Finland.
They started 1989 and consists of Lauri Antila (contrabass), Peter Bothén (clarinets and saxophones), Andreas Hedwall (trombones and song), James Friedman (violins and song), Nils Personne (saxophones and piano) och Niklas Sundén (accordion)

Here is a rewiew of their first cd Klez. They mostly play instrumental music but the vocal songs are great and sung with a lot of drama... hopefully I will be able to put up the lyrics here soon.

(Image is from their website)

"The Gathering" - Thoughts

This compilation mostly contains artists I have a live personal experience of and some other that I love. You'll find music from different places and of various ethnicity. (More about this and the artists in another post.)

But it is also an imaginary gathering, a very special one since it is a fusion of many cultures, still somehow they all are family.

You can follow the evening...

people arriving and being welcomed,
children having fun when the party begins
and develops into a wedding
and wild happy dancing...
the storyteller tells his tales,
there is love
and also a fight...
and when the morning comes
someone is sitting alone
looking back at this fabulous gathering.

I must confess though, even though it is a very happy feast there is a streak of melancholy through it all... I guess it appeals to my Scandinavian heart...

Dualdisc Debacle - CD 1 "The Gathering" - playlist

1. Freilechs von der coupe - Sabbath Hela Veckan - Honga
2. Spanish rhapsody - Robert Wells - Rhapsody in rock
3. Aumba - World Wide Orange -The Grounds Of Mystery
4. Triliseste - Orientexpressen - Balkanica
   
5. Brudmarsch från Äppelbo - Alban Faust - Bordunmusik från Dalsland
6. Genom Eld Och Vatten - Sarek - Melodifestivalen 2003 Deltävling 3 i Luleå
7. Nordsjö Brudmarsh - World Wide Orange - The Grounds Of Mystery
8. Marie's Wedding (with The Chieftains) - Van Morrison - Irish Heartbeat
9. Laguetek - Tony Mouzayek - Maktub II: La Danza de los Siete Velos
10. Vals efter Jan-Olof Olsson - Väsen - Väsen
11. Koleda na Bozic - Ensemble Oni Wytars and Ensemble Unicorn - On the Way to Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrim)
12. Saltarello (Italia 14c Medieval song) - Anonymous - Unknown
13. Wild Dance - Ruslana (Ukraine) - Eurovision Song Contest 2004 - Istanbul Disc 2
14. Mabruk - Gisele Bomentre - Maktub II: La Danza de los Siete Velos
15. Hora De La Goicea - Orientexpressen - Balkanica
    
16. Youske furt avec - Sabbath Hela Veckan - Honga
17. Kucevacko Kolo - Orientexpressen - Balkanica
    
18. Mashke - Sabbath Hela Veckan - Honga
19. Om Hon Vill Det Själv - Nordman - Nordman
20. Hibernia - Michael W. Smith - Freedom
21. Zidney's zweite bulgar - Sabbath Hela Veckan - Honga
22. Trollrikepolska - Väsen - Väsen
23. Erinerrungen - Sabbath Hela Veckan - Honga

Hi and welcome

to my new project blog. I will use it when I have some or other project I want to publish. The reason for starting it is this eminent cd-swap.

I am a little late, having burned the 5 CD's for CD 1 and working on CD 2 Playlist...

I plan to post the playlists here, the albumart, my thoughts about the songs and more about the musicians...