Swedesplease – The Swedish Music Blog

I’d hate Swedesplease to be typecast as a Swedish indie pop blog. I’m open to writing about just about anything. In fact I would feature much more jazz if the artists and labels were open to it. But jazz seems to be about the last genre to fully embrace mp3 blogs. Luckily Gothenburg based jazz singer Patrick Rydman took a chance and sent a couple songs from his debut record I Will Do It. Maybe he didn’t realize I’m a big fan of Kurt Elling, Patricia Barber and the Green Mill (Al Capone’s speakeasy – now jazz club extraordinaire) here in Chicago.

Check out that Blue Note-esque cover art above and the breezy song “Heartache On The Side” below. You can buy the new record here.

A Heartache On The Side

It’s been over a year since The Stoner released The New Pink. That’s a good chunk of time on the internet where everything is so rapid/vapid.

But I’d like to slow things down with these songs from The Stoner.

The Stoner is a jazz group from Stockholm and not a heavy handed psychedelic group of, well, stoners. If I’m not mistaken I hear shades of Pink Panther in that first song below and perhaps that explains the title of the record. It’s like they took that noir jazz from the film and ran it through a blender adding odd time signatures, strange percussion and an out of tune organ. It’s a pretty marvelous effect, if you ask me. Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.

Naima Spelar Orgel

Bonus track:

Silent Superman