To be done in Sthlm

Dinner with my parents
Visiting the countryside (I hope)
Visiting my grandparents on both sides

Hanging out with Marika, Mattias, Annelie, Clara, Ija, Isaac, Marcin, Lasse, Eric, Anders, James ...and maybe some new friends too...

Having 2 gigs
Booking at least 4 gigs to the summer
Working for oneFM - radiostation
Finding some new spots for a music-video
Finishing the structure for a new site I have been working on for a while now

Finding some new clothes?
Bringing some of my old-stuff back with me to Östersund?
Getting a new web-cam! No bambuser lately!!!
Ehhhh...
Coffe, loads of coffe and eating food in nice restaurants!!!!
Dance at mose-backe, hell yeah :P

Could be done in 10 days, right?

On the go

So, I have been kinda sleeping through January, and I begin to slowly wake up again. I started 2008 in the coffin, semi-dead, to much work, to much emotional ups and downs, spent the spring finishing my degree in systems design, spent the summer finishing Gardenia and the autumn to think about where to go and where to start.

I ended up with a macBook and loads of papers filled with plans. I have rebooted a couple of times now, and today I feel like high-ho-let's-go!

So, whaz-up?

You know I mentioned I had plans for a site for independent artists and promotion, and tonight I am actually filling it with content. It will take some time, and I do already have a bunch of partners and artists waiting to get started.

I'll be back with updates more regularly from now on =)

More...

Hm.

I have recorded my very first completely acoustic/analog song. A bit radio-pop-rock. I'll have a short break from my Sol Skugga concept this spring, to get lost in different genrés and broaden my skills a bit. But do not worry, I'll bring you some electro-pop-rock materials next winter as always.

Hupp, gotta work now! Stay busy! =)

I hit Swedish radio p4 Södermanland tomorrow 12.00

I'll add a phonenumber here that you should please please send an SMS to, so that I can stay in the newly added music chart for a maximum of 10 weeks, I never needed you so much as now!

Thanks for everything and I hope you'll be with me on this one!

Love/Sol

http://www.sr.se/sormland

Interview at a local magazine and words of wisdom

So, today I have done my first interview with a Swedish magazine 100%Östersund. It felt good, I enjoyed myself and I think I can get used to this ;) Seriously, I realized once again what a trip I've made since 2000 and I tried to draw attention to the persons who have supported me and my music. And actually, I think she understood me and what I try to achieve. It was a smart chick asking just the right questions. And I hope I did push the right buttons. And that I managed to NOT speak about certain things, even if I stumbled once, but I changed the subject kinda smooth...

Some things are not to be explained. Not by other fingertips than mine. And certainly not at this point in my so called career. Or life. Or whatever.

Truthful but not unwise.

Ooooh, and I will be able to shoot my Intuition movie in the most beautiful surrounding ever. Thanks to the artist Fredrik Wretman.

Happy happy me.

I'll get back to this later...


Ahm, I just had to copy this from my friend Emma =)




Goodnight, see ya at bambuser :P

Gardenia released

New Gardenia album released!

I paint musical landscapes with lust, passion, sorrow and love and invite you to a Garden where you will find only truth.

Listen to my new album Gardenia at www.solskugga.com, free preview untill Christmus. Free download of the entire album (for members only) from the 24th of December!

Also... there's a few signed copies available, so if you like my folk-lore, new wave, electronica kinda rock, get your hands on it now and let our fingertips meet...



www.solskugga.com

With all love/Sol

A break and Christmas holliday

You might have noticed that I have not been blogging so much this month. I am publishing my memoirs at www.solskugga.com and promoting my new album Gardenia - so I don't really have time to write here that much. I'll be back on the new year, but till then please visit www.solskugga.com for updates, news, some poems etc, and I am struggling to translate those writings for you...

Love/Sol

I'm beeing feautured on USA radio!

the R.A.D.A.R. Report :: Channel 43 :: XM Satellite Radio

Jackson United Trigger Happy California
Tat Road To Paradise United Kingdom
Ann Lee This Is What You Need Italy
Jason Adamo Miracle North Carolina
Stephen Jay Self Avoiding Random Walk California
Cockpit Shot In Hell California
Ravelyn Another Masquerade Texas
Midatlantic Writing In The Sand Massachusetts
Evergrey Soaked Sweden
Talking About Commas Kids, Jobs, Women & Gods Rhode Island
Sol Skugga Ghost Sweden
Half Acre Day Carpool Washington

Radar report

popcuts.com

Tonight I have found a smart new site, I just have to make some buzz about it =)

So here's how it works. You buy a song from me, and then, for every new sale I make on that special item, you get 40% of the money. Like an investment program, where you can actually make money by supporting me. Spread to your friends and let's earn some money together ;)

Another review and something funny

Here's another review of Swimming without webbed toes.

Just a funny thing.

I have now met two guys both involved working with my first album. I think god made a decision to make a joke about the title of my first album, and he succeeded =) They both have webbed toes...

I'm now on my way to the train to Gränsfors and Thomas. Will record fiddle, some guitars and things on my last songs, then it's finished =)

Staffan Österlind in interview tonight

Visit http://radiosfh.org tonight at 20.00 and pay attention to my lead guitarist and co-producer Staffan Österlind. When you're at it, visit him at myspace.com/staffanosterlind and check him out. He's an amazing musician and person in many ways...

If you stick around you might hear some Sol Skugga tunes in that interview as well ;)

Med ögon känsliga för grönt

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Me and Mattias having a home-jam-session =)

Massive problem with the new Myspace music player

We all know that myspace hasn't been the most brilliant page to edit with html and css. As an artist, it lacks lot's of functions that for example reverbnation has developed. Over time though, every serious band have built a myspace promo page, cause everybody know of myspace and go there to find new music. The major thing with myspace, for me and for thousands of other bands, have been the ability in the player to count the numbers of listeners dropping by, and to give you nice statistics over how popular you are. Some have worked pretty hard to get those numbers up, including me.

Last week, we heard through media that the new, flashy super cool myspace app should be released - lifting myspace as a music comunity and reaching up to iTunes and amason standards. Great, I thought. I might put some more energy into my myspace once it's out there.

What I have some days later, is a player that doesn't work at all, it displays wrong songs, some of them won't play, the counter is reset to the sum of my recently added songs, which means ALL my statics over listeners the past 2 years are gone. That makes a different from 18000 plays to almost 100000 for me. I am about to release my new album pretty soon and that different makes a different when approaching radio channels etc. Myspace forums are crowded with angry and disappointed bands such as me - but no reply from myspace crew.

There's always bugs, beta-releases etc in the cyber world, but hey, myspace is one of the biggest communities in this world atm, shouldn't they be able to change a player without loosing their users trust?

I really hope they fix this bug, and hope for their sake that they atleast saved a backup of earlier information or I'll write them down without mercy.

/Sunny

Wickmanska gården

Live at Wickmanska gården the night of culture 08 in Lund. On stage Fredrik Courcambeck-Wahlqvist on Acoustic Guitar | Fiddle and Martin Ekdahl
Fiddle and Sol.

It's very live, sadly the recording volume were to high, so there's distortion in the video-clips from this eveing. I've tried to edit the sound quality so use your imagination a bit and you are almost there =)

Oh. And it's live. *smiles*

To see more from the show, visit: http://solskugga.blip.tv

O ett litet paket

Ni är många som genom tid och rum kunnat ta åt er av dessa ord, även om dagens paket går till min käre Birk-ur pojk-ur. Snart ses vi och skuttar över helvetesgapet några vändor =)

Pjesent

Impressive work and inspiration

Hardcore saturday ;)

Life in a nutshell?

Monday, Tuesday...Wednesday...

;)

And a last one

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Umm..

Båtlåt Spiksmedjan 08 with Thomas von Wachenfeldt and Hans-Erik Hall

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We had a couple of sweet sweet gigs this summer in Gränsfors, a small community close to Sundsvall. I'll be back there in the end of Oktober. And also I will upload 4 more songs from this evening, as soon as my internet accepts it =) 

Trasig skor with Thomas Von Wachenfeldt and Hans-Erik Hall

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And another ;)