Weeping Willows
| Weeping Willows | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Rock , pop |
| founding | 1995 |
| Website | weepingwillows.nu |
| Founding members | |
| Magnus Carlson | |
| Ola Nyström | |
| Stefan Axelsen | |
| Hernestam is different | |
| Thomas Sundgren | |
| Mats Hedén | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Magnus Carlson |
guitar |
Ola Nyström |
Guitar, keyboard |
Niko skirts |
Drums |
Hernestam is different |
Weeping Willows is a Founded in 1995, Swedish pop-rock - group , whose albums in Sweden regularly top ten reach -rankings.
history
Singer Magnus Carlson and percussionist Thomas Sundgren played country music and rockabilly in a cover band in 1993 . The backing band Stefan Sundström , Apache, invited the two to work together and from this a real side project developed, which performed songs by Elvis Presley , Roy Orbison , Johnny Cash , Scott Walker , The Righteous Brothers and other singers of the time. When a band structure developed, it was named Weeping Willows after the weeping willow found in Cash's lyrics to Big River . Magnus Carlson and Thomas Sundgren stood by their side from then on: guitarist Ola Nyström, bassist Stefan Axelsen, drummer Anders Hernestam, keyboardist Mats Hedén and, after some time spent performing live, the second guitarist Niko Röhlcke. The 1997 debut album Broken Promise Land was produced by Rebecka Törnqvist sponsor and producer Pål Svenre at Atlantis Studio in Stockholm. He also played the piano on it. The fact that Per "Texas" Johansson also played clarinet, flute and saxophone and the trumpeter Peter Asplund is thanks to Svenre's first-rate connections to the Swedish music scene. In addition, Mikael Anderfjärd and Ole Holmquist (both trombone, the latter temporarily with James Last ), Håkan Nyqvist (hunting horn), Arsa Forsberg (cello), Hans Åkesson and Ulf Forsberg (both viola) as well as Josef Cabrales-Alin, Sarah Edin and Torbjörn Bernhardsson (all violin). The CD sold well in Sweden, Norway and Germany. Appearances at festivals and in TV shows cemented the band's popularity. In principle, the appearance wardrobe consisted of black suits and filled whiskey glasses as accessories. The follow-up album Endless Night (1999) adopted a more modern style and took Depeche Mode and Morrissey as models. This hit again with pop lovers, but was not found as successful by critics as its predecessor. In 2001 Magnus Carlson made his first solo debut . The band album number 3, Into the Light , was a bit more rocking . Producer Johan Forsman, who was previously responsible for pop rock bands like The Soundtrack of Our Lives , played a key role in this . It was released in Sweden in November 2001 and in the rest of Europe in early April 2002. It was not until 2004 that the album was continued with Presence . It took another three years for Fear & Love to appear. Then there was a really long break until 2014. On the album Tomorrow Became Today , which was released in March 2016, “the other” well-known Per Johansson, namely Per “Rusktrask” Johansson , played the saxophone. The current Weeping Willows Kern line-up is: Magnus Carlson (vocals), Ola Nyström (guitar), Niko Röhlcke (guitar, keyboard), Anders Hernestam (drums).
style
The Internet platform Allmusic describes the style as sentimental, whiny rock with a good portion of strings and wind instruments. The music is suitable for fans of Chris Isaak and the early kd lang , it said in Billboard magazine. The kulturnews reviewer also saw a stylistic relationship to Chris Isaak thanks to the singer sobbing and twang guitar . Regarding the epic-melancholic string arrangements, he added: "You play girl conquest music with a lot of gusto and smoothness, you balance close to tight dance kitsch and yet don't fall off." Christof Nikolai said on plattentests.de about Endless Night that the music is viewed critically as kitsch, getting involved in them is romantic, but definitely timeless melancholy. The intro saw no sinking into "excessive pathos and kitsch". The musical formula was defined as " Pulp plus Roy Orbison divided by Chris Isaak". In the pop lexicon of the SWR3 website it says that the sound of Into the Light has "moved towards modern rock and dance floor ", but is still "influenced by opulent arrangements from the 60s (see Walker Brothers , Phil Spector )" . Weeping Willows is, it goes on there, "stylistically somewhere between a-ha , Depeche Mode and Blancmange (see their song Blind Vision )." The band retained the "opulent, indulgent retro sound" on later albums.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 1997 | Broken Promise Land |
SE13 (24 weeks) SE |
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| 1999 | Endless nights |
SE2 (6 weeks) SE |
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| 2002 | Into the light |
SE1 (21 weeks) SE |
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| 2004 | Presence |
SE2 (13 weeks) SE |
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| 2005 | Singles Again |
SE6 (11 weeks) SE |
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| 2007 | Fear & Love |
SE2 (9 weeks) SE |
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| 2014 | The time has come |
SE2 (15 weeks) SE |
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| Christmas Time Has Come |
SE3 (29 weeks) SE |
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| 2015 | Broken Promise Land Revisited |
SE37 (3 weeks) SE |
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| 2016 | Tomorrow Became Today |
SE1 (16 weeks) SE |
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| 2017 | Snowflakes |
SE19 (6 weeks) SE |
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| 2019 | After Us |
SE1 (8 weeks) SE |
More albums
- 1998: Singles Collection (compilation)
- 2005: Live in Helsinki (video album)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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SE
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| 1997 | Broken Promise Land |
SE13 (23 weeks) SE |
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| 2001 | Touch me |
SE21 (19 weeks) SE |
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| 2004 | Stairs |
SE22 (5 weeks) SE |
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| 2005 | I'm gonna let love find me |
SE44 (1 week) SE |
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| 2007 | The Burden |
SE49 (4 weeks) SE |
More singles and EPs
- 1997: Eternal Flames
- 1997: Blue and Alone
- 1997: December Songs ( EP )
- 1998: (Music from the Motion Picture) Under Solen (EP, contains You're Everywhere with The Boppers)
- 1998: Alla Hjärtans Kväll ( charity single)
- 1999: True to You
- 1999: When You Are Asleep
- 2000: While I'm Still Strong
- 2002: Falling
- 2004: You Weren't Even Close
- 2004: Lost Love
- 2007: Shiver in the Morning Light
- 2014: (We're in) Different Places
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Lars Lovén: Weeping Willows. Artist Biography by Lars Lovén. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ^ A b c Christof Nikolai: Weeping Willows - Endless Night. Punk rock in minor. In: plattentests.de. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Weeping Willows - Broken Promise Land. In: discogs.com. Retrieved March 27, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b Weeping Willows. Historia. In: weepingwillows.nu. Retrieved March 28, 2016 (Swedish).
- ↑ Virgin Records (Ed.): Weeping Willows "Touch Me" . (undated [2002], laundry slip).
- ^ Weeping Willows - Tomorrow Became Today. In: discogs.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Thom Duffy: Sweden's Willows Branch out; Q'ing up for Awards . In: Billboard . The International Newsweekly of Music, Video and Home Entertainment. October 25, 1997, Home & Abroad, p. 64 .
- ↑ (mw) / culture news: Weeping Willows. Endless night. In: Meinekuenstler.de. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ intro.de: Weeping Willows. Endless night. (No longer available online.) In: intro.de. April 15, 2000, archived from the original on March 28, 2016 ; accessed on March 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biography: Weeping Willows. In: swr3.de. August 7, 2007, accessed March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ hankfurbisher [sic]: Weeping Willows - "Tomorrow Became Today". In: bestditches.com. March 12, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Chart discography Sweden
Web links
- Official website
- Weeping Willows at Allmusic (English)
- Weeping Willow at Discogs (English)