Listen to the new album!

You can now listen to our album at Spotify! 
Listen, enjoy and share! And buy it if you like it, it´s always special to have a real copy. Of the first unik edition! :)

And you are welcome to tell me what you think of it. Did you find a favourite song? Any other thougths?

Here are some photos and a videoclip from our releaseparty,which was so much fun! You can see many more at our Facebookpage. Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. (not so strange btw., with so many charming people we know, and people from the age of 7 to 77 in the audience)  We had four bands playing for support, fully booked at the tables with friends and foreigners, and a lot stayed for partying afterwards, which made it all perfect.

One of our favourite live songs: I´m running:

We played two sets, with all the songs from the album.

Diana was arranging and hosting this party, fabulessly.

Bamboo and christmas decorations in combination.... quite eclectic, as are we! 

Label!

 

 Our drummer Anders (left) took a lot of nice photos, check out our Facebook page 

State and Kristina, friends and music collegues.

Later dancing: Me and my collegue Mia

And its hard to believe: Just some weeks ago, we were struggeling like crazy in the studio, me and Cezary. All weekends, every night, late nights. Cezary did an enourmous job this last year, since we started recording in mars... making the recordings better in so many ways, caring about every detail, tons of megabytes changed between us the last 8 months, and we have been learning this together.. I could not have done this without him.Or without support from our families.

These songs have been with me and the band for a long time now, we have worked with them, experimenting, changing arragments, changing settings, and as new people have been playing them, so have the caracter of each song changed over time. Even if we still love playing them, it sure is a releif to release them and let them fly, like birds ready to leave the nest too long...This is the end of a five year process of writing songs, establishing a band, getting and playing gigs; from mine and Dianas very first open stage gig at Jazzå to this release, and I could write a book about the journey. But the goal was always getting out these songs, and have fun along the way. I hope and believe you will feel the energy and love put into the music when you listen.

I leave it like this, and hope you will help us spread the music! :) And if you want to support us for sometimes making more music in the future, buy the album! Streaming services dont pay more than nickles to indipendent musicians. And dont forget to like our Facebook page.  We have gotten a lot of new friends there lately, especielly from Poland, and we are very happy for that :)

Merry Christmas to you all! 

Simone Says: The album: Release 7th of December!

Now the album is now being printed, and will arrive to us this week. So now you can book it here and get it next week! :)

The album comes in an eco package, with a booklet with more info, photos, and all the lyrics. So I really think you should buy it if you like what you´ve heard so far!  Here is some more information, this is page 3 from the cover:

If you live in Sweden or Norway, just write an email with your adress to simonesaysband@gmail.com and we fix it directly. The price is 140 SEK/NOK (included postage)
If you live outside of Sweden or Norway, you book it here for 16 Euro (included postage). Use the "Buy it" button at the upper right corener.

And: If you live in Gothenburg, you are welcome to our release party at Kontiki (Slottskogen) the 7th of December! Do join our Facebook event :)  A lot of guest artists, old band members on stage, we will play all the songs from the album, and DJ and dancing afterwards, it is going to be fun! We just have to celebrate that we finally are there.

It feels almost incredible.

Now the album is being mixed

On Sunday we finally sent all files for mixing!! Me and Cezary have been working really hard lately, and also the band, having a gig the same week and all... And our families, all a bit exhausted. And it feels like a big burden has been lifted off my shoulders. Finally I leave this to somebody else! Then we have to think about printing, artwork and a dussins of other things. But now I will have some days off being with my family, my children has not seen their mother much lately. I so hope it will turn out fine after the mixing and mastering. And we have to fix a release party with our friends, because we deserve it! Soon five years has passed since I made a decicion on writing songs, and soon four after me and Diana started, later Stefan and one year ago Cezary, who has done so much for this record. And I hope people will feel it and get it.

Here is a picture from our nice gig at Tuve library. It was really great to see/listen to SEVEN, and a priviledge to play afterwards.

FN dagen-

Vi spelar på Tuve Bibliotek snart. Är mycket glad för att få vara med på detta, det känns ultimat på så många plan. FN dagen, kvinnors rättigheter, Tuve. Där jag bor, det jag brinner för, på en speciell dag, just den här hösten. Mer info om SEVEN på www.sevenwomen.se

Nu ska vi bara hinna öva oppi all inspelning och redigering och mixning och fotning.... Tidsoptimisten i mig trode skivan skulle vara klar då vi bokade in spelningarna i höst ;) Men det blir bra och jag hoppas många kommer på detta stärka arrangemang.

English: The United nations day we will play at this event at library in Tuve. Seven is a documentary theatre about womens rights all over the world. It is the perfect arrangement, hope a lot of people will be attending.

A nice evening

We had a really nice evening at Marieholm during the concert of The Novelty band:

Imorgon på Marieholm

Vi spelar på mysiga restaurangbåten Marieholm (vid Lilla Bommen) imorgon! Klockan 19 börjar konserten med The Novelty Band http://www.noveltyband.com/, som spelar klassisk jazz från -20 talet, och vi har fått turen att komma och gästspela där en halvtimma mellan 20.30-21. En regning höstkväll med middag och vin och jazzmusik på mysiga Marieholm, det kan inte bli fel :)

Ser fram emot giget. Vi skall spela de låtarna vi inte spelade på Kyrkbytorget, så då har Anders varit med på hela setet. Och sen ska vi  äta mat, lyssna på musik, och ta ett glas vin efteråt. Så lyxigt att släppa släpa på grejer, så man får passa på även om det är mitt i veckan. Det gillar vi, på aftergig efter en annan spelning, på Grekisk Kolgrill och bar i vintras: 

 

The gig at Kyrkbytorget

Here is "Dont be a Stranger" from the gig (at Kyrkbytorget, Lundby Kulturmånad, Temadag miljö)

A nice day, hot and sunny and a lot of people joining in the different activities, concerning environment. We are happy we could be a part of it! And it was so nice to have a (great) drummer on this gig, and great friends joining us, filming etc. Thanx!

Now we continuing working on the album. At Sunday me and Cezary recorded piano at my home. I just got my old piano (my grandmothers) moved here from Norway, a really great piano from the 30-ies:

 
Another gig coming up next week, at a jazzclub at the boat Marieholm. We will play during the breaks of a concert with the jazzband The Novelty Band. Looking forward!