Fjarill
Fjarill ( Swedish: fjäril = Butterfly) is a Founded in 2004, Swedish Folk - Pop - band . It consists of the Swedish pianist and singer Aino Löwenmark , who also takes on most of the vocal parts , and the South African violinist Hanmari Spiegel , who is also responsible for the background vocals and some solo vocal parts . The texts are sung in Swedish and Afrikaans and printed including German translations in the booklets of the studio albums.
history
| Fjarill | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Folk - Pop |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | www.fjarill.de |
| Founding members | |
Singing, piano
|
Aino Löwenmark |
Violin , vocals |
Hanmari mirror |
| Current occupation | |
Singing, piano
|
Aino Löwenmark |
Violin , vocals |
Hanmari mirror |
The band was founded in 2004 in Hamburg . Both women sang in choirs in their youth. In Hamburg they first made music in other formations and finally got to know each other in a recording studio. In 2006 the band was discovered by Michy Reincke . Her first album, Stark , was released in 2006 on Michy Reincke's label RINTINTIN MUSIK and was an unexpectedly great success. Two years later the album Pilgrim and the Christmas EP God Jul were released . Their third album, Livet, followed in 2010 . On July 2nd, 2011 Fjarill received the German RUTH World Music Prize. Since many fans told the band that they sounded very different live than on the studio albums, Fjarill recorded a live album in the Hamburg Mozart Hall in 2012. The album "Live in Hamburg" was released by Edel on Content Records . With the studio album Tiden new style elements and unusual tempos have come into the music. Jürgen Spiegel , Aino Löwenmark's husband, and Omar Rodriguez Calvo (both members of the Tingvall Trio ) played on the album and accompanied Fjarill on parts of the tour in early 2014. In the same year, Fjarill released a songbook with the help of Clemens Garbe. It contains sheet music for piano, violins and vocal parts of 25 songs. The songbook was self-published and can only be obtained from the duo's website. In May 2014, together with their long-time friend and manager Hasko Witte, they organized a flash mob with the song "Ukuthula" (English: peace) in the Mercado shopping center in Hamburg. Over 100 singers from different Hamburg choirs took part. The flash mob was filmed and has been on YouTube ever since. The sixth album Stilla Tyd (released in December 2016) comes from the concert program of the "Leisen Zeit", which has been played for several years, and includes new and older own pieces as well as traditional ones from both countries of origin. This album was released on the specially founded label "Butter & Fly Records" distributed by Indigo. In 2018 Fjarill played four concerts for the first time in South Africa , the home of Hanmari Spiegel. They combined the concerts with workshops for children and young people in townships in Cape Town, Pretoria and Underberg. On April 6th, 2018 they released their seventh album "Kom Hem" (also Butter & Fly Records), which was a pure concept album for the first time. Every song deals with the topic of home. The single "Hypnos" (also as a video) was previously released to represent the album. In 2019 the eighth album "Midsommar" followed.
The band members currently live in Hamburg.
Discography
- 2006: Strong
- 2008: Pilgrim
- 2008: God Jul (EP)
- 2010: Livet
- 2012: Live in Hamburg
- 2013: tides
- 2016: Stilla Tyd
- 2018: Kom Hem
- 2019: Midsommar
Awards
Web links
- Official website
- Reviews on nordische-musik.de
- Fjarill at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Fjarill: Music for Midsummer Night in the Factory
- ↑ Interview with Aino Löwenmark about his own music style and influences . www.rdl.de. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- ↑ some about the band history . www.rintintinmusik.de. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ↑ Interview by Radio Dreyeckland Freiburg with Aino Löwenmark about the album 'Tiden' and the 2014 tour . www.rdl.de. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- ↑ Fjarillmusic: UKUTHULA Flashmob in the Mercado, Hamburg - Altona. June 4, 2014, accessed July 19, 2018 .