Blood Music - Sing A Song Fighter

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3...according to our Phil on Sun 19 Nov, 2006.

We like Static Caravan here..... lovely folks... lovely music... We have this new CD in by Blood Music who I think had one of those limited cork sleeve jobbies out some time back. This is some Swedish dude making pleasant enough folk music which reminds me of a more folky less twee Darren Hayman. A couple of the tracks are like Casiotone For The Painfully Alone but happier.....Bedroom pop for the masses..... Am not enormously keen on this myself but after 3 more listens it's starting to make a bit more sense...... we shall see!!

"On one of the numerous occasions I spent in the hospital last year. I was discussing music with an older man in the bed next to me. He was very interested in everything I said. He said, he’d lost track of what was happening ”out there”. New bands come and go every week, and he had no idea how to separate them from one another. ”I mean, at the end of the day, no one stands a chance to John Lennon”, he said.
Since the TV was in the very centre of the room, there was a lot of watching going on, and every time there was a music video on, he wanted my opinion. Did I like this? What genre was this? He wanted me to come up with new names and musical terms (the weirder the better) so I tried to answer him the best I could, including the question what kind of music I was making myself. We had some incredible word games there in our stiff white beds. And when it was time for him to leave the hospital, he suddenly grabbed me and said:
-By the way, you know you’re not a singer songwriter, huh?
-No? I said
-You are a sing a song fighter!

I liked that."

The quote above is from last year when Karl-Jonas Winqvist, on ordinary days one of the vocalists and songwriters in the Swedish critically acclaimed pop group First Floor Power, was thinking of a title for his album with his solo project Blood Music. The work with the record started already in 2003, but due to several serious brain operations, the road to the finished album was shaky to say the least. But now finally it is here and we are happy to present this unique collection of new songs. These are songs that don’t look in any other way and seem to lack apparent sources of inspiration. They are all permeated though, by Karl-Jonas Winqvist’s characteristic and ingenious narrative voice. These are also pop songs, in which the guitar has stepped aside a bit, and now share the space together with balalaikas, accordions, saxophones and strings.

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