Makaki Music – A Swedish Independent Record Label
Nordic and Scandinavian Americana / Roots
Makaki Music shares the premiere of the video for Sofia Talvik’s Christmas single ‘This Mess We’re In,’ a fittingly dark seasonal song for a pandemic year.
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Sofia Talvik is back with her annual Christmas single. This is a free download.
Go and listen / download it here:
Read more about the release directly from Sofia Talvik on her artist page here:
As an added bonus this year Sofia Talvik also added a stripped down one guitar and vocals version, which is also part of a digital EP called “Notes For Christmas” with acoustic versions of her two latest Christmas singles as well as a traditional Swedish Christmas song performed in Swedish and German.
Get the bonus EP here:
The Swedish-German duo Hansan released their debut album “Nattflykt” in May 2020. The album has been critically acclaimed in both Swedish and European media.
“Det är Jul” is a stand-alone single, a Christmas song that really reflects the anything but perfect 2020. A dark and lonely Christmas, a Christmas where you crawl out of your skin due to quarantine and social distancing.
“Det är Jul” is nothing like the merry and romantic Christmas songs we normally hear, but with Hansan’s special sound with lush layers of cello and vocals that catches your attention every time you hear them, this is still a given newcomer to all of this year’s Christmas playlists.
Or as Hansan themselves put it, “It’s Christmas, can’t we just live in peace?”.
Hansan’s debut album “Nattflykt” is now available on all streaming platforms and as digital and physical copy on https://hansan.bandcamp.com
Makaki Music is proud to present a new video from Swedish / German folk duo Hansan.
The video for the song “Fjärilsvärld” is a collaboration between Hansan and Tanz-Zentrale Leipzig.
Choreography and dance direction Lisa Hofmann. Dancers: Luzi Madrid Villanueva, Cecilia Nesler, Fine Saelzter, Franzi Becker, Hanna Jacobi, Isabella Grundei, Lara Wunch. Dancers filmed by: Lisa Hofman, Emma Kleiner, Konstantin Tsakalidis, Lara Wunch.
Makaki Music announces the release of Paws of a Bear – Unplugged, an acoustic reworking of Sofia Talvik’s eighth album recorded during the pandemic, when her tours fell silent and fans asked for the songs stripped back to voice and guitar.
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On June 29th acclaimed Swedish artist Sofia Talvik is presenting an unplugged version of “Paws of a Bear” which was released to critical acclaim last Fall.
”Paws of a Bear, finds Talvik taking a more Americana-flavored approach – influenced by Jason Isbell, Valerie June and others” – Billboard.com
“This album is solid gold from start to finish” – Americana Highways
”Talvik’s voice is a thing of thing of singular beauty.” – Goldmine Magazine
When all her shows were canceled due to Corona, Sofia starting doing online concerts – and her fans started asking if there would be any recordings of them available. So on June 29th an unplugged version of Paws of a Bear, with 10 of the original tracks, plus two bonus tracks – all onetakes, with vocals and guitar – will be available on all digital platforms as well as a limited edition of CDs
Hansan is a Swedish / German folk duo with roots in Folk and Jazz. Hansan blends lush haunting vocals with layers of intricate cello arrangements. “Du Du Du” is the first single released from the upcoming debut album.
Hansan captures the Swedish melancholy like few others. Although all the songs on the debut album “Nattflykt” are self-composed, they make you think of everything from Jazz to old traditional folk songs. Hansan draw inspiration from the raging seas and the Swedish magical forests, but also covers more difficult subjects such as the me-too movement (Hej Då) and immigration (Sjung Min Lilla Näktergal).
First single Du Du Du, a song about break-up and independence, is released January 19th.
To make a whole album varied and exciting with just vocals and cello as the only components, Hansan has experimented with mould-breaking arrangements and chord changes that pick elements from both classical chamber music to jazzy grooves. A fifth string on the cello increases the depth of the soundscape and gives it an extra character of bass, and the different layers convey the feeling of an entire orchestra.
Modern yet traditional, light yet heavy – Hansan makes their own niche in Nordic Folk Music.
Makaki Music shares Sofia Talvik’s single ‘Broken’ (Steel Guitars in Heaven), a heartfelt tribute to her late pedal steel player and friend Tim Fleming — a rare musical kinship remembered in song.
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Makaki Music shares a new Sofia Talvik song written about the pandemic and live-tracked with her pedal steel player Tim Fleming — premiered by American Songwriter Magazine as live music moved indoors.
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Makaki Music shares Sofia Talvik’s video for ‘Pharaohs and Friends,’ filmed in White Sands, New Mexico and premiered by Glide Magazine — intimate folk with shades of Joni Mitchell.
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