Nicolai Dunger is one of those names you hear around, though one that never really building up a portfolio of fervent press attention. Not that this is for the want of trying - Play is his sixteenth album (although some sources list fewer). He's worked with Will Oldham, Mercury Rev and Calexico, and after a few years of genre excursions, this is his first 'pop' market record since 2004. For a back to basics approach, Dunger strips away all those references and accroutrements for a rootsy, largely acoustic in the round setting. As such, Dunger's immediate influences [...]
I cringed when I was asked to put together a list of my 10 favorite albums from the past decade. My shortlist had nearly four times that many. How could I possibly narrow it down? So instead of going through that torturous weeding out process, I decided to compile a list of ten records that I feel didn't get the attention they deserved.
Nicolai Dungers nya album som fått titeln Play släpps den 14 oktober och enligt pressreleasen är det hans första riktiga popalbum sedan Here's My Song… och ska vara "svängig, enkel och rootsig". På albumet, som är inspelat i Storsund i Norrboten och samproducerat med Staffan Andersson, finns det en duett med Nina Persson. De om något låter spännande.
Musicians Pay Tribute to Judee Sill, 70s artist you may not know about; but you should.
The railroad still enjoys a storied place in our society despite the fact that its heyday has long since passed. This can largely be attributed to its continued presence in popular culture, especially in film and music.
All photos by David Greenwald This was your Independence Day, Wally. (And Humphrey.) More : Camera Obscurist Nicolai Dunger - "Independence": mp3
Judee Sill was a singer/songwriter from Oakland, California. She was the artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, and during the 1970s, released two highly acclaimed studio albums on it. This music eventually caught the attention of such acts as Fleet Foxes, Warren Zevo, and Graham Nash, all of whom have recorded or performed her material, but not before Sill died November 23, 1979 due to a drug overdose. She was 35-years-old. November 23, 2009 will mark the 30th anniversary of Judee Sill's untimely passing. To commemorate the occasion, American Dust will look to honor [...]
Best. Norwegian vampire movie. Ever. And I am not even a vampire movie kind of guy...this was just a beautifully made movie. And that is about as much of a review as you will get from me. How about some music? I am feeling Scandinavian... * Nicolai Dunger - 'Soul Rush' MP3 * Dungen - 'Panda' MP3
A few weeks ago while in Austin, a group of us were discussing Bonnie "Prince" Billy's new LP Beware - a conversation that soon shifted to Will Oldham related side-projects. Among other titles discussed was Swedish singer/songwriter Nicolai Dunger's 2003 album Tranquil Isolation. While by no means his first rodeo, the LP served as my [...]
Det frågades i kommentarerna vad Van Morrison -covern i förra inlägget hette i original, och svaret kommer via mail från Simon : Jag har glatt kunnat konstatera att Nicolais tolkning är precis så bra som jag kom ihåg den. Låten heter i orginal "Irish Heartbeat" och finns på skivan "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart". En bortglömd pärla, även om ljudbilden från orginalet känns lite daterad (som så mycket annat av den musik som spelades in på 80-talet). Det är i sådana här lägen Spotify är lysande! Och den daterade ljudbilden får man ju hålla med om, [...]
För ett par veckor sedan fick jag ett mail från Sebastian som sett det här inlägget med ett Nicolai Dunger -klipp från Album i SVT, och som nu undrade om jag möjligen hade tillgång till ett annat klipp från samma program. En sådan trevlig vädjan kan man ju bara inte ignorera, så jag såg till att gräva fram klippet ur gömmorna. Utan vidare omsvep kommer därför nu Nära och Kära , en vacker Van Morrison -tolkning av Nicolai Dunger: Läs även andra bloggares [...]
Here are a couple old tracks from Swedish singer-songwriter Nicolai Dunger . He's a former professional soccer player that was discovered by a music producer while he sang on a balcony in his hometown. Shortly after being discovered he gave up soccer to pursue his passion for music. Early in his career Dunger drew comparisons to Nick Drake and Van Morrison. Download: MP3: Nicolai Dunger - Something In The Way MP3: Nicolai Dunger - Good Man Download: [...]
Christmas is coming and kids are having fun (so said the chorus of my fifth grade play " Shaping Up Santa ," for which I still know all the words and thankfully no longer have to wear the green elf costume). I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year because of the overabundance of really bad, synthy, jingly, repetitive Christmas music that bombards me at every pass. But tonight I was listening to my friend Dainon 's superb radio show out of Salt Lake City and he filled two and a half [...]
Swedish singer/songwriter Lesli has a new album called "Sleepwalkers lament" out this week and you can now preview a few tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lesliso ngs Reminds me a bit of old Nicolai Dunger or other similar 70s-style troubadours. Very warm and natural.
Strangely, the first Calexico song that really made an impression on me was their cover of Love's "Alone Again Or" from the 2004 covers EP, Convict Pool . Calexico - Alone Again Or I was fortunate enough to see Love before Arthur Lee passed away. What a show that was! In keeping with the bizarre world of NYC concert-going, David Fricke , Kurt Loder and Steven Van Zandt were standing next to me the entire time [...]
I keep meaning to tell you how good the new Nicolai Dunger album "Nicollide and the Carmic Retribution" is, but it keeps getting pushed aside. It's a difficult album to distill to a single track, not to mention that I'm still struggling to wrap my head around it (in a good way). So for now you'll just need to take my word for it and investigate on your own as today I'm posting the title track from what remains to be my favorite Nicolai Dunger album, "Soul rush" . It's a perfect piece [...]
Svenska skivsläpp som jag längtar efter, topp 3: 1. The Second Band - The Definite Form Med tanke på hur mycket jag lyssnat på The Second Band känns det smått osannolikt att skivan som nu släpps faktiskt är deras debutalbum. Deras tre EP:s har gått varma länge, och jag har faktiskt inte tröttnat på dem än. Jag har haft förmånen att få lyssna på tre av låtarna från nya skivan, och visst låter det hoppfullt! Två av dem finns nu på nätet: The Second [...]
Jag har egentligen aldrig orkat lyssna på Cornelis Vreeswijk. Tycker att han lätt blir lite sådär påfrestande putslustig. Och hyllningsplattor brukar ju sällan vara några musikaliska mästerverk. Så när några artister nu ska ge ut en nytolkning av skivan Poem, ballader och lite blues från 1970, så borde jag knappt lyfta på ögonbrynet. Men de smakprov från skivan som finns att lyssna på hos DN gör att jag snabbt ändrar mig, den här skivan vill jag faktiskt ha! Nina Ramsby och Annika Norlin som står bakom de båda [...]
Ok, so I am sure a lot of you are already familiar with Nicolai Dunger , the Swedish singer but if you aren't, here is a chance to get a few tracks from his, in my opinion, greatest record to date, Tranquil Isolation . This record was made in 2003 with Will Oldham aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy , and has some of Oldham's usual contributors on it, as well as Will doing quite a bit of backing vocals and accompaniment. This record has a really nice [...]
Welcome to the first installment of Oeuvreblogging , a new column in which - inspired by some of the fine folks doing the same thing for songs - I'll attempt to write about every album by my favorite bands, one at a time. I'm starting with Nicolai Dunger , whose catalog is perhaps too formidable, but future artists will include obvious ones such as Elliott Smith, Ryan Adams and some surprising lesser-knowns as well. Consider this the Rawkblog's very own All Music Guide [...]
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