CARMEN AND CARISSA BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF OUR STORIES AND YOURS. WE HAVE TOO MUCH IN OUR HEADS AND HEARTS AND GUTS FOR SPEECH AND TOUCH ALONE TO COMMUNICATE. WE BELIEVE IT IS BRAVE TO LOVE YOURSELF ENOUGH TO PUT A PIECE OF IT ON PAPER, OR IN A CAKE, OR A GARMENT, OR THROUGH A TRUMPET. WE WANT TO COMMUNICATE, TO LEARN ABOUT EACH OTHER AND OUR SELVES. WE ARE JUST PEOPLE, LOST AND ALONE AND FOUND AND SURROUNDED AND DEEPLY IN LOVE.
The Sweptaways are a HUGE a capella choir of good looking well-heeled Swedish ladies (myspace, or, if you read Swedish, blog), and that's about as much as I know about them. On their second album, The Sweptaways Show, the ladies are joined on each track by a different pop singer, including one or two familiar names, like JENS and Pelle Almqvist from The Hives (who kissed my hand at a show when I was 14), Robyn (!), and a whole lot of people I don't know.
You can listen to all the tracks for free and download them for $$ HERE.
The kitsh factor of this project may be off-putting for some. As for me, the sound of more than two voices together gives me chills and often makes my eyes sting like I'm on the brink of tears (not to mention I'm a little bit of a scandinav-o-phile (?)), so 30+ Swedish voices, (<3) Jens Lekman's (<3) included, definitely does it for me! >
Credit to Jonas Edvinsson for tweeting this video and making my week!
OH CARMEN. oh jens! this is great. also, I didn't know you liked Robyn, I listened to her in elementary school. yeah I was just that cool. Then all of the sudden she's all over Pitchfork. CRAZY!
yes let me know. also i found out that that show is 25$ at the door and 20$ ahead which seems crazy so any shit you can pull with GL is awesome. if not ill even pay for you too but it seem kinda crazy. also im a little drunk!@ lets talk on our B L O G.
OH CARMEN. oh jens! this is great. also, I didn't know you liked Robyn, I listened to her in elementary school. yeah I was just that cool. Then all of the sudden she's all over Pitchfork. CRAZY!
ReplyDeleteyes let me know. also i found out that that show is 25$ at the door and 20$ ahead which seems crazy so any shit you can pull with GL is awesome. if not ill even pay for you too but it seem kinda crazy. also im a little drunk!@ lets talk on our B L O G.
ReplyDeletecrazy in an expensive but ill still pay for you if you need it! not in a crazy lets not go way,
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