Det enda bl.a. plays restfully cumbersome instrumental music that sounds a bit like jazz, but without so many long solos. Today they release their debut album – Som att börja gå nedför i en stillastående rulltrappa
“How a melody relates to harmony is part of the good things in life.”
– John Bjerkert – Det enda bl.a.
10/10
“Det är som hela skivan, det känns som att känslan låtarna målar upp är så självklara och igenkänningsbara, men när man börjar sätta ord på det så glider det undan. Det Enda Bl.a. gör det vi alla längtar efter, de sätter ljud på känsla som inte kan sättas i ord eller bild. Vi kanske inte borde bli så förvånade, med låttitlar som “Jag känner mig som utomhus”. Vad betyder det ens? Så lyssnar vi på den och grips av känslan, ja men exakt så! Men när låten tar slut blir det ogripbart igen.”
– HYMN
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, on Friday, September 26th, single number two was released called “Sen skulle jag följt hennes egna råd ”.
Artist: Det enda bl.a.
Album: Som att börja gå nedför i en stillastående rulltrappa
Release date: October 24
Label: Adrian Recordings
Get the vinyl here: https://adrian-recordings.myshopify.com/products/det-enda-bl-a-som-att-b-rja-g-nedf-r-i-en-stillast-ende-rulltrappa
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6fkpZ0JsGGdaWYFFNiEblb?si=cprcEfZWRxmM9W5jNK4uTg
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/se/album/som-att-b%C3%B6rja-g%C3%A5-nedf%C3%B6r-i-en-stillast%C3%A5ende-rulltrappa/1828194539
Bandcamp: https://detendabla.bandcamp.com/album/som-att-b-rja-g-nedf-r-i-en-stillast-ende-rulltrappa
Album cover: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k4da8fjjrhjuilog4vv20/AR495_DEBLA-3600×3600.jpg?rlkey=afnz84t7j1tqn3ya5gmoxdfly&dl=0
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.”
For me, music has always been more something that is close rather than far away. Of course, I have listened to and played a lot of stuff here and there, but what has inspired me and influenced me the most are the people I have played with. Their thoughts about music and their joy and seriousness in their interest. People like Pontus Wickman, David Fridlund, Emil Jensen and Richard Schicke.
And more concretely, I am strongly influenced by a memory of Allan Holdsworth‘s music. Not that I particularly like it, but more of how I felt when I first heard his music.
Then I like Panda da Panda a lot and listened to him constantly during the period I was writing these songs.
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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?
