Simon Says (band)

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Simon Says
General information
Genre (s) Progressive rock
founding 1994
Website www.gepr.net/simon.html
Founding members
Stefan Renström
Singing, sitar
Daniel Fäldt
Current occupation
Guitar , vocals
 Jonas Hallberg
Matthias Jarlhed
former members
Keyboard
 John Lönnmyr
Drums
 Ola Johansson
Keyboard
 Nils Stenström
Keyboard
 Magnus Paulsson
singing
 Pnina Yavari Molin

Simon Says is a Swedish progressive rock band.

history

In the early 1990s, the journalist Stefan Renström (* 1965) worked as a bassist for the Stockholm progressive rock band Agg , from which Paatos later emerged. For personal reasons, Renström left Stockholm and the band in 1993 and settled in his hometown Falköping . There he founded the Simon Says project together with the young singer Daniel Fäldt (* 1975) at the end of 1994 . With alternating accompanying musicians, they recorded the first album, Ceinwen , which was successful in Sweden and which took up the classic progressive rock of the 1970s with retro-prog . At the time, Simon Says only played free concerts and the band broke up. Renström focused on his work in the space rock band The Moor ; Fäldt went to India for a long time and learned the sitar there . In 2002 Renström had written enough new material, brought Fäldt back from Benares and recorded the second album Paradise Square with new accompanying musicians , which was clearly based on the music of the early Genesis . This album led to several requests to participate in mammoth prog projects such as the setting of the Odyssey and the Kalevala (these recordings were later collected on the Siren Songs album ). After the album Tardigrade , which was released in 2008 and is widely regarded as the best album by Simon Says to date ("Record of the Month" by the music magazine Eclipsed and on the Babyblauen Seiten ), Fäldt went on a world tour again.

Discography

  • 1995: Ceinwen
  • 2002: Paradise Square
  • 2008: tardigrade
  • 2011: Siren Songs

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