Jens Lekman - The Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom

Jens Lekman - The Cherry Trees Are Still In BlossomAll my friends were playing in these bass guitar drum bands, speaks Jens Lekman, casting his mind back over twenty years to his first rudimentary experiments with sampling using his fathers old cassette recorder, and an instinct to create music that would set him far apart from his Swedish pop peers. Im going to sound like Scott Walker. But Im going to do it in my bedroom. Works of sweeping, maximalist, orchestral wonder sung in a sumptuous tenor,

the record will contain ten brand new songs from the group and also faeture performers from other jazz-influenced acts like DADARAY and umber session tribe

came out in 2007

which was released as a single in 1970 and later appeared on her 1972 album Young

He often calls these beats “Instrumental short stories” usually filled with not just beats & melodies but also a lot of ambient sounds & short random conversations

When GODTET started I wanted there to be no preconceptions

seventies and eighties

centres around a small creature who builds a burrow that's anxiously fortified in an attempt to protect against perceived attacks

Officially licensed and remastered from original tapes

Chicago-based Silas Short had a rough time growing up as a mixed-race child in the suburbs of Milwaukee but he found solace and inspiration in music through his older brother who played drums for the church gospel band

with each member pursuing their own interests

Singer Amy's debut album produced by guitarist Masaki Matsubara

The storm clears for a second to allow a celestial chord progression to emerge from the darkness before the heavens open and Sosna's snarling