After a couple of EPs, it’s now time for a debut album. The album has been titled “Som att börja gå nedför i en stillastående rulltrappa” and will be released on October 24. The first taste was the song “Med ett liv i behåll? ” which was released on August 29th, Now on Friday, September 26th, single number two will be released called “Sen skulle jag följt hennes egna råd “.
A small Swedish phrasebook:
Det enda bl.a. = The only i.a
Som att börja gå nedför i en stillastående rulltrappa = Like starting to go down a stationary escalator
Med ett liv i behåll? = With one life preserved?
Sen skulle jag följt hennes egna råd = Then I should have followed her own advice
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Det enda bl.a. plays restfully cumbersome instrumental music that sounds a bit like jazz, but without so many long solos.
Artist: Det enda bl.a.
Single: Sen skulle jag följt hennes egna råd
Release date: September 26
Label: Adrian Recordings
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/42wdIyQi9Xy0Cy98IpdMNF?si=0k3eusmtQPS-8wNbMmJamQ
Tidal: https://tidal.com/album/448899232/u
Bandcamp: https://detendabla.bandcamp.com/track/sen-skulle-jag-f-ljt-hennes-egna-r-d
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“How a melody relates to harmony is part of the good things in life.”
– John Bjerkert – Det enda bl.a.
With one foot in indie pop and the Scanian prog soil and the other in jazz, as well as some inherited unconscious Swedish folk music, Det enda bl.a. creates a completely unique intersection of something you think you recognize but then forget. After a couple of EPs, it’s now time for a debut album. The album has been titled “Som att börja gå nedför i en stillastående rulltrappa” and will be released on October 24. The first taste was the song “Med ett liv i behåll? ” which was released on August 29th, Now on Friday, September 26th, single number two will be released called “Sen skulle jag följt hennes egna råd “.
Behind the project Det enda bl.a. is John Bjerkert. In the band, songwriter John plays drums and piano, Conny Fridh bass, Isak Ringnér guitar and Andreas Sjögren saxophones, keyboards and percussion.
Det enda bl.a. is a pure solo project completely dependent on the participation of others.
“Det enda bl.a. is a very private project that was created by me going down to the basement and staying there for a while. It’s formalized whims and the same song in different versions. Writing music, or for that matter creating in general, I think is about staying in the flying thoughts, joining them together and then backing off. Complete focus on details becomes a nice unthought-out whole.”
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It was always the same thought on the way down to the basement:
-Why do I want to change everything, when I have time to think at all?
Press photo: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/djcshem8qap19wpkbgjzc/Debla_MAXALMNORELL_KLAR-st-rre.jpeg?rlkey=jxryrlfq1m4n49nc9a4yt8z3z&dl=0
Photo: Max Alm Norell
