In English
Swedish folk music in untraditional arrangements, with influences from American folk music and blues.
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The new album contains Malin´s Swedish interpretations of Gillian Welch, in arrangements influenced by Swedish, Celtic and American folk music.
Release January 27 2010 and is celebrated with a live consert at Berns in Stockholm.
Malin´s powerful stage presence and expressive singing together with her innovative interpretations of traditional material have attracted critical acclaim along with an audience that stretches far beyond the folk music scene. Since the release of the first album in her own name (Jag längtade / I longed) she has firmly established herself as one of Sweden’s most exciting young artists. The media has named Malin “Sweden’s next great folk singer” and placed her album in the best of 2007.
The live act unites Swedish, American and British folk music. Swedish interpretations of songs by Gillian Welch stand alongside playful and improvisational arrangements of Swedish classics by Bellman, Taube and Dan Andersson, as well as traditional material. Coloured by slide guitars, Anglo-Swedish fiddle and Celtic cittern the sound is earthy and fragile, intriguing and irresistible.
Malin has worked as a singer for many years and have performed on the biggest stages in Sweden and also toured in Europe and Asia. She has worked with everything from folk rock to early classical music and storytelling as well as music theatre. She is the soloist in Nils Lindberg´s Requiem, a fusion of folk, jazz and classical music and sings the blues with the great guitarist Clas Yngström.
Since the release of the album Jag längtade (October 2007) Malins has toured with her new live band that consists of:
Emma Reid – fiddle and backing vocals
A well established artist in Britain and Sweden who masters the traditional music from both countries. Emma is a truly natural fiddle player, with a deeply personal style and a real ability to speak through her fiddle. She performs with Robert Harbron, Methera, Roger Wilson and John McCusker to name but a few.
Esbjörn Hazelius – cittern, fiddle, guitar and backing vocals
A multi-instrumentalist who plays and sings music from both the Swedish and Celtic traditions and tours Sweden and Europe with several groups. His exquisite perceptive skills have made him the most sought after accompanist among Swedish folk singers.
http://www.myspace.com/esbjornhazelius
Olle Eriksson – double bass, mandolin and backing vocals
Olle have toured the world and received international acclaim for his work with Eric Bibb. He is also a member of “Tiny Island”. The eponymous record has attracted attention the world over.
Mattias Pérez – guitar, dobro and backing vocals.
Mattias is a highly appreciated musician and member of several groups, such as MP3 and Outhouse Allstars. He has also worked in Västanå Theatre and teaches at Academy of Music in Ingesund.
http://www.myspace.com/mattiasperez