Trummor & Orgel - Worlds collide (video)

PSL has the premiere of the new Trummor & Orgel video "Worlds collide": http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2011/10/19/videopremiar-trummor-och-orgel-worlds-collide/

New Trummor & Orgel in September

Look for Swedish organ/drum duo Trummor & Orgel to release their new album "Out of bounds" on September 21.

Klubbland #24: Trummor & Orgel w/Ebbot

A new episode of Klubbland is up today featuring Ebbot Lundberg of The Soundtrack of Our Lives performing with Trummor & Orgel. Highlights: a cover of "London dungeon" by The Misfits. Another bonus: a Union Carbide Productions cover. Check it: http://klubbland.se/2011/03/04/24-trummor-orgel-med-ebbot/

2010 Swedish Grammis, the list

Here you go, the (almost) full list of nominees for the 2010 Swedish Grammis:

Album:
A Camp - Colonia
Agnes - Dace love pop - The love love love edition
Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
Caroline af Ugglas - Så gör jag det igen
Erik Hassle - Hassle
Kent - Röd
Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
Mando Diao - Give me fire!
Takida - The darker instinct
Thåström - Kärlek är för dom

Folk music/ballad:
Cajsastina Åkerström - Sånger om dej och mej
Esbjörn Hazelius - Blunda och du ska få se
Miriam Aida - Letras ao Brasil
Olle Adolphson - Tystnaden smyger som en katt... 1956-2004
Sofia Jannok - Åssogáttis - By the embers
Sofia Karlsson - Den allra båsta (1999-2009)
Sofia Karlsson - Söder om kärleken
Stefan Sundström - Ingenting har hänt
Taken By Trees - East of Eden
Väsen - Väsen Street

Hard rock:
Candlemass - Death magic doom
Crucified Barbara - 'Til death do us party
Dead By April - Dead By April
Hammerfall - No sacrifice, no victory
Hardcore Superstar - Beg for it
Lillasyster - Det här är inte musik, det här är kärlek
Mustasch - Mustasch
Raised Fist - Veil of ignorance
Renegade Five - Undergrounded universe
Wolf - Ravenous

Jazz:
Alice Babs - As time goes by
Bengt Berger - Beches brew
Georg Wadenius/Arild Jensen - Jul på Svenska
Jan Lundgren Trio - European standards
Jeanette Lindström - Attitude and orbit control
Jonas Kullhammar Quartet - The half naked truth
Lina Nyberg - The snow
Lisa Ekdahl - Give me that slow knowing smile
Magnus Lindgren - Batucada jazz
Trummor & Orgel - Visions

Club/Hip-hop:
Andreas Tilliander - Show
J-Son - Never half stepping
Ken Ring - Hip hop
Lorentz & M Sakarias - Vi mot världen
Mange Schmidt - Odenplan Stockholm 1988
Maskinen - Boys II men
Mohammed Ali - Processen
Näääk - Näääk vem?
Promoe - Kråksången
Swingfly - God bless the IRS

Composer:
Amanda Jenssen & Pär Wiksten - Happyland
Anna Järvinen - Man var bland molnen
Christian Walz - The corner
Deportees - Under the pavement - the beach
El Perro Del Mar - Love is not pop
Joakim Berg & Martin Sköld (Kent) - Röd
Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
Nina Persson, Niclas Frisk, Nathan Larsson (A Camp) - Colonia
Salem Al Fakir - Astronaut
Thåström - Kärlek är för dom

Female artist:
Agnes - Dace love pop - The love love love edition
Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
Anna Järvinen - Man var bland molnen
Caroline af Ugglas - Så gör jag det igen
Jenny Wilson - Hardships!
Laleh - Me and Simon
Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
Miss Li - Dancing the whole way home
Pernilla Andersson - Ashbury apples
Sarah Dawn Finer - Moving on

Male artist:
Christian Walz - The corner
Erik Hassle - Hassle
Freddie Wadling - The dark flower (Den mörka blomman)
John Me - I am John
Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
Markus Krunegård - Lev som en gris dö som en hund
Olle Ljungström - Sju
Salem Al Fakir - Astronaut
Thåström - Kärlek är för dom
Tingsek - Restless soul

Newcomer:
Adiam Dymott - Adiam Dymott
Dead By April - Dead By April
Erik Hassle - Hassle
John Me - I am John
Jonathan Johansson - En hand i himlen
Larz Kristerz - Hem till dig
Lorentz & M.Sakarias - Vi mot världen
Maskinen - Boys II men
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Name The Pet - Name the Pet

Pop:
A Camp - Colonia
Asha Ali - Hurricane
BWO - Big science
Calaisa - Grafton Street
El Perro Del Mar - Love is not pop
Fibes, Oh Fibes! - 1987
Jill Johnson - Music row II
Melody Club - Goodbye to romance
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Peter Bjorn And John - Living thing

Producer:
A Camp - Colonia
Amanda Jenssen & Pär Wiksten - Happyland
Bloodshy & Avant (Miike Snow) - Miike Snow
El Perro Del Mar & Rasmus Hägg - Love is not pop
Goran Kajfes (Magnus Carlson & The Moon Ray Quintet) - Magnus Carlson & The Moon Ray Quintet
Jenny Wilson - Hardships!
Kent & Joshua - Röd
Laleh - Me and Simon
Salem Al Fakir - Astronaut
Thomas Rusiak (Adiam Dymott) - Adiam Dymott

Rock:
[Ingenting] - Tomhet, idel tomhet
Bob Hund - Folkmusik för folk som inte kan bete sig som folk
Deportees - Under the pavement - the beach
Dundertåget - Skaffa ny frisyr
Europe - Last look at Eden
Florence Valentin - Spring Ricco
Kent - Röd
Mando Diao - Give me fire!
Takida - The darker instinct
The Bear Quartet - 89

Lyrics:
Amanda Jenssen - Happyland
Anna Järvinen - Man var bland molnen
Caroline af Ugglas - Så gör jag det igen
El Perro Del Mar - Love is not pop
Joakim Berg (Kent) - Röd
Laleh - Me and Simon
Lars Winnerbäck - Tänk om jag ångrar mig och sen ångrar mig igen
Louise Hoffsten/Peter Lemarc - På andra siden vättern
Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
Thåström - Kärlek är för dom

For the full list in a hard-to-read format, go here: http://www.grammis.se/

Trummor & Orgel back with new album, website

Swedish self-explanatory duo Trummor & Orgel will release their third album "Visions" on November 18 and also have a new website to match: http://www.trummororgel.com/
There will be a record release show at Södra Bar in Stockholm the night of the release.

New Trummor & Orgel in the works

Trummor & Orgel will begin recording a brand new full-length album this week. No word on an exact release date, but don't expect anything before fall.

Örnsberg
Redlinespotting
Perfectly Charming Records

Magnus Carlson sure is whoring himself out these days; I don't know how else to explain his various appearances on records such as Trummor & Orgel's "Cannonball sessions" and now this. Whatever happened to less is more? At least Magnus' voice raises the level here as opposed to that other example (let us never speak of it again). His contribution to "Weekend lights" is a highlight on this decent, but ultimately forgettable record. Örnsberg (aka artist Johan Ragnarsson) strikes me as a slightly less-indie The Tough Alliance: similar mid-fi techno, but without the art-school hangups and West Coast vibe. He's got good songwriting instincts and an okay voice, but he lacks character and attitude and that's something TTA has in spades (for better or worse). Too cool, too reserved and just way too Stockholm.
- Avi Roig

MP3: Trummor & Orgel - Somebody stole my thunder

I actually dig the new Trummor & Orgel disc "Thunderball sessions" quite a bit, shame that the single is the weakest moment. I'm not sure if it's the wrong key or what, but Magnus Carlson's velvet croon comes across as strangely sterile here. I'm surprised, especially considering the way he's able to make even the most rote Weeping Willows material sound Important, but anyhow, let's emphasize the positive, shall we? Concentrate on the instruments, not the vocals. The self-explanatory duo is in full-on Esquivel meets James Bond territory here, creating a soundtrack for a spy movie that doesn't exist, so I suppose they need at least one pop number. "Secret mission", "Under cover", "Spy Island"... song titles that mirror the instrumentation as being very, very obvious, but also very well done. Of course it's cheesy, it's supposed to be, but they jam it out hard.

Trummor & Orgel - Somebody stole my thunder (ft. Magnus Carlson)

Sirius playlist week #8

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. Emmon - Secrets & lies
02. TALK 1
03. Marions - Another hour
04. Mimikry - Alderland
05. Culkin - Glow
06. TALK 2
07. Ironville - Roses
08. Silver - The white logic
09. Powersolo - Pirates of the oblivion
10. The Scrags - TV messed up mind
11. TALK 3
12. Kusowsky - Dansa
13. Paper - To her
14. Marit Bergman - Bang bang
15. Trummor & Orgel - Main theme
16. Affordable Hybrid - If you've got a problem with me
17. TALK 4
18. The Fine Arts Showcase - London, my town
19. Hebosagil - The last one
20. Dyno - Don't speak love
21. Knugen Faller - Lugna favoriter
22. TALK 5
23. Jesper Norda - We have the guts

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Look for a new EP from Trummor & Orgel sometime around late October. Maybe this is the release with Magnus Carlson (Weeping Willows) singing Georgie Fame's "Somebody stole my thunder"?

Magnus Carlson of Weeping Willows has been busy this summer recording various duets including a track with Freddie Wadling entitled "Isolation" and a song with Örnsberg called "Weekend lights". Listen to the latter here: http://www.myspace.com/ornsberg
Magnus also contributed guest vocals to a Trummor & Orgel track, their cover of Georgie Fame's "Somebody stole my thunder".

Look for a new EP from Trummor & Orgel this fall. There's no confirmed date as it's still being mixed, but expect it around September/October.

Ebbott Lundberg from The Soundtrack of Our Lives makes a guest appearance on two songs from the new Trummor & Orgel album "Reflections from a watery world" out today on Cosmos Records. Listen to both at myspace along with two other tracks: http://www.myspace.com/trummorochorgel

Trummor & Orgel
s/t
Cosmos Records

Skeptics believe. An organ and a drum played by the Ljunggren brothers combine to form a sound that at times is like a throwback to the electronic craziness of the Mario videogame-induced '80s, but is actually a lesson in basic jazz. It's funny how Ebbot Lundberg from Soundtrack of Our Lives is used to promote this duo's album like crazy on Trummor & Orgel's own website ever since they started touring together. I guess targeting a wider market works nowadays even if it is the wrong market.
The organ's comping effectively creates a smooth jazz feel that wouldn't normally be expected from the instrument, the symbol of church hymns and funeral marches. I only wish there'd be more of these kinds of creative acts out there. It works perfectly: Without needing a full jazz band, one might expect the style to be minimalist but it is anything but.
- Jennifer Ma