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June 11th, 2008
On the 18th of March the new Rörstrand Museum was officially
opened by Princess Victoria. The museum was designed by White Arkitekter
AB and the music for the permanent exhibition was composed by Michael
Ellgren.
During the opening ceremony Michael and Pierre Ellgren performed a
slightly humoristic piece of music played entirely on porcelain.
Amanda Jenssen's debut album "Killing My Darlings" was released
on the 7th of May. It went straight in at the number one spot on the
Swedish albums chart and it didn't take long before it reached platinum
status. One of the songs is called "Come On" and was written
by Linda Sundblad together with Marit Bergman.
Linda has also been busy writing songs with Darin and Måns Zelmerlöv.
On the download only bonus track version of Kleerup's self-titled
debut album on iTunes you will find a track called "History"
with Linda Sundblad on vocals. The song is not available on the CD
release.
Henrik Edenhed has been rewarded with a gold album for his work on
Oh Laura's album "A Song Inside My Head, A Demon In My Bed".
Henrik produced and mixed the album and also co-wrote several tracks.
As a member of Staireo, Sebastian Forslund is currently busy recording
their next album which is planned to be released in Japan later this
year. Their last album, "Multi De La Tjossa", was released
there in November 2007.
Sebastian has also produced the new album by Pihlis, "Framgång
Förlåter Allt" (Svedjebruk).
Michael Ellgren has, occasionally with contributions from Sebastian
Forslund and Jonathan Hummelman, completed work on two albums, "Chillout
Interior" and "Chillout Lounge", for Swedish AUX AB/Adept.
Michael is currently working on a new album for Universal Publishing
Production Music/Match Music called "Chillout Lounge Design".
At the same time he is also producing music for the next series of
Rachel's Favourite Food - "Food From The Sun". Michael has
written the music for all of the previous series of the show which
have been hugely successful on BBC1 and UKTV among others.
More info: www.rachelsfavouritefood.com
During the spring David Andersson has been touring with Swedish rock
band Soilwork, visiting places like Japan, Australia and Malaysia.
The tour ended on the Saturday before last with a successful gig in
Madrid, Spain, where they opened for Metallica in front of a crowd
of 50.000!
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Amanda Jenssen - Killing My Darlings

Oh Laura - A Song Inside My Head...

Staireo - Multi De La Tjossa |
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February 17th, 2008
As previously reported Linda Sundblad has been busy writing songs
for her forthcoming second album, but she has also written songs for
other artists. "Speak 'N Spell", the first single from Elin
Lanto's forthcoming album, was written by Linda and Johan Bobäck.
Elin Lanto's new label is Catchy Tunes. She is predicted to become
the next big music export from Sweden.
Linda has also written material for the debut album of Amanda Jensen
who finished second in the latest edition of the Swedish version of
"Idol".
Henrik Edehed attended this year's Grammis awards together with his
brother in arms, Ollie Olson. Their work with Oh Laura resulted in
the band being nominated in the best newcomer category. Henrik has
also recently done mixing work for Jordin Sparks, the winner of "American
Idol".
Henrik and Ollie run MixInc together since 2005. Check out their web
site:
www.mixinc.se
David Andersson from the band Edenhead has recently returned from
the USA where he's been discussing the launch of the band's debut
album with the Shrapnel record label. We'll let you know as soon as
a release date has been set.
Michael Ellgren is currently recording new material for two upcoming
chill out albums.
For a couple of years now, Michael has written music for the "Rachel's
Favourite Food" TV series. Four seasons have been produced so
far, three of which are available to purchase on DVD from the show's
web site:
www.rachelsfavouritefood.com
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Elin Lanto - Speak 'N Spell

Rachel's Favourite Food DVDs |
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