I’ve finally moved back into my apartment again. I still don’t have a bathroom and no running water so toilet and shower visits are taken care of in a barrack in the yard, and water I’m fetching from a tap in the stairway (only cold water). Annoying of course, but still nice to once again live where all my stuff are. Mum and dad where so very nice and came up for a day and helped me clean away all building dust and organize everything again.

The fact that I haven’t lived at home is off course the biggest reason to why I haven’t been writing here lately, combined with lot’s to do and the last days splendid weather!

We’ve had to really nice gigs with Fabulous Five since the last time I wrote here, one at Jazzclub Fasching in Stockholm and one at the Culture House in Trelleborg. The Fasching gig was recorded by Swedish Radio P2 and will be broadcasted sometime this autumn. It was a nice evening with a big audience and I think it was our best gig so far! I’m looking forward to hear the recording, I hope it reflects how it felt in a good way, you never know when it comes to recordings.

The gig in Trelleborg was also very nice. We went there the same day, which resulted in seven and a half hours in the car and arrival an hour before the gig. Despite the long trip the gig was really sweet. At first we were a bit chocked by the acoustics, the sealing was very high and the room was pretty big; you probably can’t come closer to a concert in a bathhouse without actually being in a bathhouse. It felt like we dealt with it in a pretty good way though, even if our sound most probably was more diffuse and blurry than it usually is. Afterwards we were invited to a wonderful dinner and some beers at the home of Rasmus family, where we also spent the night. It became a really nice evening, like it always does with this gang. In addition we also had the company of our hosts, Rasmus parents, who offered great food, nice company and comfortable sleeping places! Thank you so much! The next day We didn’t need to be in Stockholm any certain time, so after breakfast we went to the ocean where Gustav were the true Viking of the band and took a swim. The trip continued on to Hässleholm where we dropped of Daniel, which in that moment moved back to Skåne (south of Sweden) for a while, and also out of the apartment him and me have shared this year. It was a bit sad, extra much considering that the band now will be split up for a year. Ludwig is moving to Los Angeles to study film music and I have applied for exchange studies in Vienna, even if I haven’t had any notification yet.

The day after our return to Stockholm I had my term examinations. I had lots of pains in my body after 1500 kilometers of car traveling in two days and had a really hard time focusing. This must have been my worst term exam ever, but I’ve done it anyway.

Now the summer has started, and I’m doing my best to take it as easy as possible, but I have some rests I have to start dealing with so I don’t have to think about that anymore. In a week Julia finally comes here, I really long for her! Now I’m gonna go sit on the balcony and wait until I get hungry, feels like a good summer activity!

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Mattias Andréasson, or dmaSOUL, have uploaded a great song that I’m playing on. The song is called Spend My Days and you find it at his myspace.

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What a round of La Liga! Messi once again copies Maradona, Van Nistelrooy is always in the right spot, Beckham shows once again what a fighter he is. Limp like that and still fight like crazy and deliver freekick after freekick and corner after corner with millimeter precision. Real Madrid takes it this year, they won’t loose against Mallorca at home.

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Mjölby Södra leads the 5th division, the return train is speeding up!

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Every gig so far have been canceled at my “summer job”. I’m starting to loose hope about my fixed summer income. We’ll see how it develops.

As the headline indicates, I’m not writing that much right now, this because I don’t live at home at the moment. They are in the process of demolishing and building in our apartment, re-piping and a new bathroom. I therefore don’t have that flexible computer hours. But, to summarize my situation: I’m back in Stockholm which feels alright, but I would rather be with Julia, but also fun of course. Here everything has started up in high tempo, lot’s of rehearsals and quite a few gigs coming up.

This morning I and Pål Svenre mixed the funk song in his studio, it turned at pretty well being written the day before the recording. You can listen to it here: The Day Before.
Can explain a little about the song as well: The purpose of the course was to record a song in an optional genre, but not to record everything in a single take, instead first do the foundation of the song and then put on the other stuff later. I chose to record drums, bass and guitar first. Then we have put on percussion, horns and organ.
Musicians are: Niklas Barnö trumpet, Me alto sax/baritone sax, Edvin Nahlin organ, Alexander Kronbrink guitar, Henrik Linder Bass, Aron Mellergård drums/percussion.

Feels like I have overstrained my right wrist, have really big pains there right now. Electric Bebop-gig tonight with lots of fast songs, hope my wrist lasts and that I can play it all, I’m not at all as prepared as I would like to be.

Tomorrow I’m recording with a guy named Patrick El-Hag, I hope it will be good. In the evening Dave Douglas plays at Fasching, I finally get to hear him live, his records are great!

Now I have to warm up before I leave for the gig, I’ll get back with new blog posts when I have some time at a computer!