Johannes Björk, by Johannes Björk

Johannes Björk

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1.	En Dag Av Allt 03:56	buy track
2.	Saltholmen 02:14	buy track
3.	Alice & Julia (Som Människor) 05:34	buy track
4.	Borgerlig Skymning 01:57	buy track
5.	Tornseglare 02:45	buy track
6.	Asterisker 04:07	buy track
7.	Fluffiga Små Moln 02:12	buy track
8.	Névrose Eccléastique 04:46	buy track
9.	Solnamotets Harar 02:41	buy track

about

Johannes Björk is a musician and literary critic based in Gothenburg. His music combines drones, pop melodies and field recordings to produce refined sketches rather than fully formed songs – resembling slowly refurnished interiors, rather than scenes with a clearly discernible subject. Originally released in a mini-edition of 12 copies for a show in Stockholm earlier on in the year, it is now presented in an expanded LP form with two tracks added in, and another two re-recorded. Accompanied in parts by renowned and emerging Swedish writers – such as Siri Ahmed Backström, Johan Jönson and Johanna Sköldbäck Martell – the music offers an electro-acoustic shelter, which houses both luminous and gloomy textures. Whilst the album shares an atmosphere with the emerging years of the Gothenburg scene to some extent, the songwriting bears witness to a production that treats lo-fi elements as integrated parts of the soundscape, though not in a way that overpowers the recording. For his debut solo album, Johannes carves out a landscape where pulsating drones form the background for the perfect melody, where field recordings and noise co-exist with harmonical dyads, and the feeling of an assuasive epiphany flow out of an ever-looming tragedy.

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released November 30, 2023

Recorded at Paletten, June 2022 - May 2023

A1: Lyrics, voice, field recording - Johanna Sköldbäck Martell; Synth, bass, drum machine, cello - Johannes Björk

A2: Synths, cymbal - Johannes Björk

A3: Saxophone - Erik Gustafsson; Harmonium - L.T. Fisk; Bass - Johannes Björk

A4: Synth - Johannes Björk

B1: Lyrics, voice - Siri Ahmed Backström; Synth, piano, bass - Johannes Björk

B2: Lyrics, voice - Johan Jönson; Synth, bass - Johannes Björk

B3: Accordion, cello, guitar, bass, samples - Johannes Björk

B4: Field recording, synth - Johannes Björk

B5: Lyric, voice, piano, synth, cello - Johannes Björk

Cover art - Erik Gustafsson
Layout - Andreas Christakis
Mastering - Mikey Young

Thanks also to Jens Ahlberg, Johan Hagler, Johan Samuelsson, Julius Pierstorff, Niels Nankler and Tom Gibbs.

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Premonitions: Underground Cassette Network 1989-90

Mar 2024
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Nov 2023
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