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Kakafon Records was established in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2010 but has it's home today is the small village Siljansnäs, in Dalecarlia.
Reflecting innovation as well as traditions the label releases words and sounds deriving from folk music. Sounds that have taken winding roads all around the world. Born, raised, visiting or at last settled down in the Swedish soil. Instrumental music, songs and poetry. Original, traditional, experimental.

 

Upcoming albums

Catalogue

We're sorry if you cannot find info in English for all the albums here. 
For a more updated list please visit the Swedish page.

KAKADA008
NINA ÅKERBLOM NIELSEN 
• NOBODY KNOWS THIS LITTLE ROSE

 

Emily Dickinson is a prominent figure in American literature. She lived during an era when it was not obvious that women could engage freely in artistic expression. She is described as an early feminist, with one foot in a tradition-heavy society and one foot in a world with
new perspectives. Nina's interpretations are based on the times Dickinson lived in and the music she most likely encountered. The church hymns, the organ, and the piano that she played, but also folk tunes played by the household servants. The poems are about faith
and doubt, about transience and eternal hope, about loneliness and longing.

Release 2023|20|10
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KAKAEP002 SOLO DEBUT! 
FREDY CLUE • VILL DU LEKA?

Vill du leka? is a true to self, honest debut journey into what it’s like to dare to listen inwardly. The nyckelharpa, beats and voices take the listener on a queer adventure to untangle oneself from the emotional thicket and blossom on the other side in one big non-binary freedom.
It all started with the simple question with the emphasis on the third word: Do you wanna play? A question often synonymous with childhood and which you so rarely ask yourself over the years.
Fredy Samuel asked themself the question and the answer was “YES!”. A yes that meant choosing the present, and suddenly they realized. “I’m
stuck in a feeling, in an identity, in a life situation that I don’t know how to
get out of.” Clue, Fredy Clue arose from this inner work and the music in the EP unfurled along this journey of discovering the new name. The EP is released hand in hand with the non-binary folk costume project Bäckadräkten, for which Fredy Samuel is the project manager. A project that draws attention to and celebrates the queer and allows it to have a place in a binary folk tradition and civil society. The EP is played live on stage together with Bäckadräkten and creates a performance about Fredy Samuel’s personal journey in search of identity.

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Release 2023|02|06
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KAKACD058 SOLO DEBUT! 
LIVET NORD • PAPERBIRD
She’s toured the world with a wide range of ensembles, appeared in a sizable number of dance and theater productions in addition to being featured on at least sixty albums. In 2015, she had the distinction of being “Artist of the Year” at Sweden’s Folk and World Music Gala. And now Livet Nord is dropping her first solo album, Paperbird, brimming with musical influences from all over the globe and backed up by prominent musicians. The compositions certainly reflect aspects from Livet’s eclectic musical background, her inquiring mind and penchant for accommodating various styles and expressions.  The melancholy polska ”Solace” is shoulder to shoulder with energetic minimalism, a lush landscape of strings, buoyant party music in, and a sparkling circus waltz with all the trimmings.

Other Kakafon albums with Livet Nord as musician are: Origo, Tre Trappor Upp, Rust, Krackel, 14 visor på fastande mage, Murardrömmar, Visor för frågvisa, Midvintervaka, Vintra Solstico, Fåglar med höjdskräck, Irrbloss, Dröm och Realitet

Release 2023|19|05
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KAKACD057 ALBUM DEBUT! 
ANNA-KARIN ANDERSSON • GRÄNSLAND
Gränsland is Anna-Karin Andersson’s epic debut solo album. With her music she takes the listener to another world, a world of clear and brilliant hardanger fiddle playing together with raw and heavy fiddle sounds. With big confidence and an amazing capability of playing with rythms and frasing, she combines traditional folk tunes with her own compositions. Threw the album Anna-Karin explores the borderland between Swedish and Norwegian folk music, between tradition and composition, and also the borderland within herself as an artist. The borderland is a cold and icy place, filled with mystery and old stories. If you listen really carefully you can hear the hardanger fiddle echoing between the mountains. Cold, clear and enchanting.

Release 2023|28|04
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KAKADA006 ALBUM DEBUT! 
GRÅ • SNETT LJUS
Back in the late winter of 2021, the duo GRÅ (“gray”), came together. The first seed was  sown when Johanna Björneke Wirgård played a few tunes she had tucked away for Petra Haraldson and that blossomed into this duo. Several more songs evolved until there was enough material for a full-length album. GRÅ takes the “in-between” perspective, observing the borderland of our comfort zones, and when longing refuses to relax its hold on us. GRÅ is about hindsight and keeping calm, but also about the passing of time: the gray hairs that are here to stay. Gray at its most soothing, but also at its most dismal. Snett ljus, which happens to be GRÅ’s debut album, gives us epic love stories, but also recounts the ordinary: things that simply happened that might not have gone well. When your efforts aren’t enough. About moving on and holding on.

Petra Haraldson is also playing at albums with Vapenlös and Unarmed.

Release 2023|21|04
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KAKACD056 ALBUMDEBUT! 
ANNA HEIKKINEN & LÄNGTANS KAPELL 
• OMENATANGO

A trip to Karelia in search of her roots. To her grandfather’s apple orchard, where he planted 200 apple trees with hope of the future. Later on came the Finnish Winter War and everything must be forsaken. Anna Heikkinen & Längtans Kapell brings a powerful presence and a delicate musical dialogue in a personal interpretation of the Finnish tango tradition on their debut album Omenatango.

You will also hear Ida Gillner on the albums Shtoltse lider and Altona.

Release 2023|03|16
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KAKADA004 (digitalt)
CAMILLA ÅSTRÖM & PETRA HARALDSON
• UNARMED - SONGS FROM THE POETRY OF  KARIN BOYE


Camilla Åström and Petra Haraldson have been inspired by Boye and her singular talent for expressing thoughts and emotions ever since they were young teens. Their interest in her art brought them together a decade ago, and ever since they have followed in Karin’s footsteps, composing music and touring with their project Vapenlös. Their debut album was released in 2020 as a tribute to the 120 th anniversary of Boye’s birth. Her poetry often addresses existential questions about the human condition. They are poems of amazement, fear, longing, courage, and defiance. Timeless in their melancholy, their passion, and their aspirations. And now the poems on the album have been translated by Linda Schenck, giving them and the songs a much bigger world in which to fly.

About the swedish album HERE!
Camilla is also playing at albums with Kaja and Visor för frågvisa.

Release 2022|10|26
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KAKACD54 ALBUM DEBUT! 
RUBINSZTEIN/KARLSSON • VÄRMLAND

Rubinsztein/Karlsson is a duo driven by a desire to make people dance! They want to feel the tension in a room when the heat is rising and the sound of fiddles ploughs through a simmering dance floor. With natural rawness and warm sensitivity they’re doing a deep dive into the traditional music from Värmland and the Norwegian border.
On the 20th of January 2023 they are releasing their debut album Värmland with Kakafon records. A collection of 14 carefully picked tunes that oscillate between melancholy and euphoria, an uninhibited
declaration of love to traditional music.

Release 2023|01|20
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KAKAEP001 
Maja Heurling och Ola Sandström • IRRBLOSS - Songs from the poetry of Signe Aurell (English version)

In 2019 songwriters Maja Heurling and Ola Sandström released their music compositions to the forgotten poetry of emigrant and social activist Signe Aurell. After the success with the album Irrbloss in Swedish, the sequel EP in English is released with four of the songs translated into English. As a Swedish emigrant in, Signe Aurell hoped for a brighter future in America just like nearly 250,000 other young women who traveled solo across the Atlantic in
the early 1900s. The original book of poetry was self-published by Signe Aurell in
Minneapolis in 1919. “When I first got the poems, it was as if a treasure landed in
my lap. I immediately felt a strong connection with Signe and her passionate way
of writing. I felt that she deserved recognition within Sweden’s poetic tradition”
says Maja Heurling.

Ohter albums from Kakafon with Maja Heurling & Ola Sandström: Irrbloss (Swedish version, 2019)
Other albums from Kakafon with Ola Sandström: Eldklotter

Release 2022|09|16
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KAKACD053
NINA ÅKERBLOM NIELSEN • TID
 

How should we really relate to time, which inexorably rushes forward and leaves deep traces in all of us? From the youth's longing expectation, through disappointment and sadness, to - at best - reorientation and hope for the future. With the album Tid, singer, pianist and composer Nina Åkerblom Nielsen wants to touch the listener with songs from all walks of life, as well as the seasons.
Nina describes herself as cross-genre, but with a great fondness for folk music and early music. After a master's degree in singing at the Royal Academy of Music and tours around the world with various baroque ensembles, she decided to invest wholeheartedly in her own composing. In 2018 came the album Some Solitary Wander, which was played several times on Scottish Celtic Music Radio. Gradually, the work with Time also became a mourning process. In the middle of the recording period, Nina's life partner, singer and saxophonist Peter Hjalmarsson, died after several years of fighting cancer. The song Written on my heart is dedicated to him, but also their first son who died in the womb in the final stages of pregnancy. On the album's last track The song Nina sees in front of her how she and the two children find a new way forward, with music as a healing force.
SINGLES: Lätta Steg Septembersång

Release 2022|09|30
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KAKACD052 ALBUM DEBUT!
DINA GRUNDBERG • JAG LJUGER MEST OM ALLT

Dina Grundberg's debut album "I lie mostly about everything" contains Swedish songs that carry both detail and edge, with a strong jazz influence. The personal everyday stories are paired with a playful wind section and a swinging comp. You will hear songs that tell you how to write a love ad when you are not good at anything at all, how to handle your neighbor that has a tooth ache or how to get revenge on your ex-boyfriend. With a strong voice and whimsical lyrics in Swedish, Dina Grundberg and her musicians find a unique expression that takes us back in time, but at the same time is giving us a taste of tomorrow's jazz music.

Release 2022|09|09
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KAKACD050 ALBUM DEBUT!
TRIO ROP • MELLAN OSS

With power and tenderness, playfulness and gravity, Trio Rop creates a unique vocal soundscape where the story is in focus. Their debut album Mellan oss (Between us) tells a tale of heartbreak, profound grief, recovery and the life that happens in between, between us.
Through a burning desire to tell stories from everyday life and all things that feel incomprehensibly big, Trio Rop grounds itself in traditional storytelling and swedish folksong. This tradition was historically used as a way of sharing and remembering stories and events. In this spirit, Trio Rop seeks to make visible the stories they themselves miss in the swedish folk tradition. The tales of the outsiders, of queer love and the power of friendship. With their innovative compositions, vocalists Elin Buxfeldt, Petrix Hessel and Sofia Källman take us to a tranquil place full of shimmering light and beautiful shadows. On the album, the trio is joined by six other voices. 
Between us, everything and nothing exists. Between us, the future is built. Between us is  siblinghood, is grief, is love, cries, whispers. It all lives between us.

Release 2022|05|20
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KAKACD051 ALBUM DEBUTE!
MURRE ERIKSSON • TÄNK OM...
 

The obstinate and willful singer songwriter and folk rock artist Murre Eriksson from the deep spruce forests in Småland, Sweden, brings the listeners on an emotional rollercoaster. Her lyrics are artful and her melodies adapt to happiness and grief, big life changes and the tiny every day moments. Murre grew up in the little village of Torsås, 40 km west of Växjö. Since the age of 14, she's played her music in all kind of places. She studied songwriting at the "Visskolan" in Västervik (well known for its musical tradition and well known folk festival) from 2014 to16, and then decided to stay there. In the village Västervik at the Baltic Sea. In her debut album, “Tänk Oom…” (“What If…”) Murre's acoustic songs are transferred into a folk rock environment. There, lyrics and honest singing co-exist with dirty electric guitars accompanied by a fully grown band of musicians, but also, songs focused on subdued notes and feelings. Music and lyrics remain with the listeners.

Release 2022|05|20
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KAKACD047 
KAJA & TETRA • MIDVINTERVAKA - VINTRA SOLSTICO
10 years anniversary!!


For a decade, the show “Midvintervaka” has warmed light-thirsty, frozen winter souls, from the North to the South. The ensembles Kaja and Tetra now celebrate its ten year anniversary with the jubilee album “Vintra Solstico”! Welcome into the warmth, to a bountiful Christmas table laden with scents, tastes and sounds from the North, the Middle East, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Maria Stellas – Vocals and percussion, Ingrid Brännström – Vocals and percussion,  Sanna Källman – Vocals, cello and percussion,  Anna Ottertun – Vocals and percussion, Livet Nord – Violinquinton, mandolin and vocals, Camilla Åström – Accordion and vocals, Jenny Kristoffersson – Contrabass, percussion and vocals, Guest musician: Sten Källman – Haiti drums 

Release 2021|11|26
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KAKACD049 
JOAKIM SCHMIDT • ÖGONBINDEL

In Joakim Schmidt's mysterious world, beauty dances with the black and reality is not always as it seems. Death munches on coconut balls, a crow tells its story to a vegetarian bartender and in the woods the elves immerse themselves in French poetry. After early years as a troubadour without a band and then seventeen years with the legendary Bastukvintetten  (The Sauna Quintet) who sang Vladimir Vysotsky's songs in Swedish, Joakim has now found his own tone, a mixture of deep seriousness and redemptive laughter. The lyrics are written with a strong love for language and all the possibilities of art. Joakim is a Gothenburger whose inspiration comes from Filipstad, Stockholm, Karlstad, Hissmofors, Baltimore and Montreal, to name a few places. He now lives at Orust in Bohuslän, where the calmness and silence have allowed the chaos and concentration to live in a mutually enriching relationship. Ögonbindel is Joakim's debut album with his own material.

Release 2021|10|08
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KAKACD048 | KAKALP008
HELENA DAVIDSSON • ALDRIG LIKA KONSTIG OCH ENSAM IGEN

Helena Davidsson's sophomore album, "Aldrig lika konstig och ensam igen", presents an empathetic encounter between Swedish singer songwriter tradition and improvisational jazz. Helena's songs portray the wing strokes of bats and swallows, the rolling of the seas, and the deep longing to be set free. Departing from Swedish singer songwriter tradition, and developing and deepening the music through the musicians individual expressions, the album communicates a strong sense of presence. “Helena initiated every session by reading the lyrics out loud. We all took our personal experience of the words with us into our performance”, says Henrik Cederblom who produced, mixed and performs on the album. All music is written by singer and composer Sofia Pettersson, except for the track "Svala fladdermus", composed by multi musician Olle Linder.

Release 2021|09|10
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KAKACD046
EIWOR KJELLBERG BAND • STAND OUT
 

Eiwor Kjellberg is a national fiddler from Järvsö and her third album Stand Out is music from Hälsingland's bluest forests and deep ponds, dense poweful interplay, dancing sweaty and with a nerve of fine fragility so the neck hair slowly rises. In Markus Räsänen's arrangement of Song for Dacha, we are taken on a dizzying journey through Ukraine and in some parts the vast landscape can really be seen. In Ian Carr's arrangement of the Cykelhandlarens dotter, it feels like we are on a bike ride where the bike finally gets wings. In Emil Skogh's arrangement of Polarpolskan, attitude is the word! In Maya and Siggi's beautiful brudpolska, the great love glows, so incredibly heartfelt and with a magical interplay.

Release 2021|07|30
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KAKACD045 | KAKALP006 SOLO DEBUT!
ANNA EKBORG • SOLO
 

Anna Ekborg is one of the younger generation of folk musicians who in recent years has established herself on the Swedish folk music scene, both as a solo artist and as an ensemble musician in the Grammis-nominated string trio Northern Resonance. Anna grew up in Falun and the Rättvik polskas are what are closest to her heart. Through great mentors such as Ellika Frisell, Mikael Marin, Hadrian Prett and Per Gudmundson and through old archive recordings, Anna carries with her an incredible treasure of Swedish tunes and now in 2021 she released her first solo album with the repertoire she has collected over the years. With a longing to find new influences and to explore the limits of music together with a curiosity and inspiration from previous generations of fiddlers, Anna puts her personal stamp on the music she carries with her. With an awareness in her playing, she invites the audience to an expressive and deeply rooted violin playing with a great personality where the songs grow with each passing.

Release 2021|07|16
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KAKACD044
FIA EKBERG • BANGATAN

Life lived from Bangatan, Majorna- Göteborg, is the inspiration for singer/songwriter Fia Ekberg’s first full-length album. This album is filled with personal tales about loving, growing older and existing, about having the courage to search for love again, the urge to live at a painfully full extent. About being a parent - feeling small and powerless. Being so angry that you want to fight, and still long for reconciliation and belonging. Bangatan is deliciuos pop and heartbreaking folky songs with a touch of blues, spoken word and cabaret- all dressed in crispy guitars and delicate synth sounds. With poignant presence and naked lyrics Fia Ekberg tells her story. This is everyday realism and magnificent longing that falls together- freely, without safety nets.

Release 2021|03|26
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KAKACD042  DEBUTE ALBUM!
VANJA MODIGH • VOCAL TRADITION
“There are songs that move you, songs that remain with you and songs that just have to be sung.” The vocal trio Vanja Modigh has collected some of these songs on their debut album Vocal Tradition: powerful, heartfelt and sensitive songs with roots in different folk traditions. Vanja Modigh imaginatively explores the potential of the voice with intertwining harmonies, distinctive ornaments, innovative rhythms, quarter tones and a beautiful timbre. With magical arrangements and wide range of singing styles, they sing right into the listener’s heart.

Release 2021|02|26
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KAKADA002 (digital) DEBUTE ALBUM!
CHARLIE FROSTENSON BROLUND • DRÖM OCH REALITET (Dream and Reality)

Charlie Frostenson Brolund (they/them) is a Swedish composer, poet and musician. After graduating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm it led them to pursue their interest in interdisciplinary art forms such as combining spoken-word with various forms of soundscapes. In their music and poetry they aim to explore the experiences of what makes us human; being a lover, a friend and a parent. Dröm och Realitet [Dream and Reality] is an intimate and rare poetic journey. Charlie Frostenson-Brolund combines reading their poetry to the backdrop of a wide array of invited guest musicians and their acoustic arrangements. The album guides us through the wondrous challenges of parenthood, love and friendship. Illustration and album cover by the artist Hanna Stenman.

Release 2020|10|30
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KAKADA001 (digital) DEBUTE ALBUM!
VAPENLÖS - CAMILLA ÅSTRÖM & PETRA HARALDSON TOLKAR KARIN BOYE

New interpretations of the world famous swedish poet Karin Boye! This is a uneversary album and a gift to her on her 120th birthday the 26nd of October.
More info wil be up soon!

Listen to Camilla also at Kaja and Visor för frågvisa.

Release 2020|10|26
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KAKACD041 / KAKALP005 / Digital
JONATHAN HILLI • SÅNGER ATT BRINNA TILL

Jonathan Hilli has been described as a song artist of the future and was awarded the Manifesto Prize for his debut album Jordsånger (2018). Now he releases the second album Sånger att brinna till with ten wild songs and breakout art in musical form. The material for Sånger att brinna till was created as a diversion during periods of upheaval and renewal. When bubbles bursted, at the last sortie on a theater stage, studies ended, after the album debut, a new country ... Breaking characters out of feelings of emptiness, comfort songs on the move towards renewal. Sånger att brinna till are punk tango, velvet drapery chanson, musette accordion, silent film avant-garde. It's cello hard rock, world music rhythms, undertones, saxophone joy, neat string arrangements, rockabilly trash drums and the death contempt bar.

Release: Digital 2020|10|23
CD and LP was released in January 2021.


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KAKACD040 DEBUTE ALBUM!
MEJRAM • MEJRAM

“The bridge between Gothenburg and Nashville is called Mejram! American roots music and swedish folk merge when this group now releases their debut album - a carefully wrapped folk-pop package filled with personal stories dressed in strings, bows, clavier, percussion och rich harmony singing. After three years in the shadows the band now emerges into the sun with what makes Mejram Mejram - four skilled young musicians, two languages, an infinite amount of feelings and great creativity. During many hours in moderately rickety rooms, with yellow curtains and terrible ventilation, ten songs have slowly and carefully been created, to later be recorded by Henrik Cederblom in Studio Epidemin (Gothenburg, Sweden). The orchestration is wide and consists of many kinds of stringed and bowed instruments, piano, drums, percussion and not least steady singing harmonies. With personal stories filled with anger, happiness, sorrow, hope and relief, Mejram leads the listener through life's peaks and valleys in a compact crawl-up-in-a-comfortable-armchair-format of 41 minutes.”

Release 2019|08|11
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KAKACD039 DEBUTE ALBUM!
Maja Heurling and Ola Sandström • IRRBLOSS

For three years, songwriters Maja Heurling and Ola Sandström have set music to the forgotten poetry of Signe Aurell. The project started when Maja Heurling was asked by Marcus Cederström, a Swedish American folklorist conducting research on Aurell in Sweden, if Maja wanted to take a look at Aurell’s poems. “A treasure landed in my lap. I immediately felt a strong connection with Signe and her passionate way of writing. I felt that she deserved recognition within Sweden’s poetic tradition” says Maja. In 1913, at the age of 24, Aurell left home for Minnesota, USA, hoping for a brighter future in America, just like nearly 250 000 other young women who traveled solo across the Atlantic in the early 1900s. She became a member of the Industrial
Workers of the World
(IWW) and wrote labor poetry, worked to unionize Swedish immigrant women, and advocated for the release of Joe Hill, the Swedish-born American labor activist. The poetry of Aurell has a distinct deftness to it. Now – one hundred years after the publication of the collection Irrbloss (Will-o-the-Wisp) by Signe herself in Minnesota – that deftness has been translated to music on this album.

Other albums from Kakafon med Ola: Eldklotter

Release 2019|18|09
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KAKACD038
NAVARRA • I LJUSNINGEN

Navarra is folk music with a nerve of city pulse and a longing for morning light. It’s energy-laden folk groove and a gentle comfort on a rainy day. They are known as innovators of their genre and as a fiery live act, creating an almost magical atmosphere between band and audience. I ljusningen (At dawn) is the band’s third and much-awaited album. It gives us folk music with Navarra’s unmistakable energy and joyous interplay but there are also songs that really stretch the concept of folk music. A sister from Somalia, music from the deep forests of Värmland, telephone salesmen and a longing great as the moon all have a natural place when Navarra’s music takes shape. Lyrics with a deep and personal imagery are given color and form in accurate compositions. Arvid Kästel's groovy folk music piano and Erika Risinger's virtuoso violin playing rest firmly on a creative and confident drum play by Carl Johan Groth. Sofia Kunze's warm voice naturally weaves into the whole with nerve and expressiveness. At dawn, just as the sun breaks through the veil of night, we find Navarra's magical world.

Other albums with Navarra: Nya Fönster och Om natten.

Release 2019|13|09
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KAKACD037 DEBUTE ALBUM!
ANNE KALMERING & STAHLHAMMER KLEZMER CLASSIC
VAYTER


Anne Kalmering’s voice resembles no other. Her warm, humorous and soulful interpretations of songs in Yiddish and Ladino have made her a central figure of the unique Jewish-Swedish cultural heritage. Together with critically acclaimed Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic, she now releases their debute album Vayter. Stahlhammer Klezmer Classic has its roots in Stahlhammer Klezmer Orchestra, which existed in Krasnik, Poland from 1920 to 1939 with violinist Semmy Stahlhammers grandfather, uncles and friends. Semmy continues the family tradition with new members.
The album Vayter shows the width of the klezmer music – Jewish folk music meets chamber music and cabaret in suggestive and playful arrangements. The music is reminiscent of a culture that was close to being destroyed, but still lives on. Vayter means “ahead, forward” in Yiddish – and is a tribute to all those who has walked this path with their songs and music.

Release 2019|30|08

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KAKACD036
ELLINOR & LEONOR • ÅRSRINGAR

With the unusual combination of five-string cello and fiddle, Ellinor & Leonor vitalise and give new life to Swedish folk music. In “Årsringar”, the duo present traditional tunes from South Dalarna in stylish and lilting arrangements enriched with improvisation and influences from chamber and world music. The duo have chosen to call their second album Årsringar (Growth Rings) in celebration of significant Swedish folk musicians that have gone before. Retaining a respect for the traditional, the duo relishes in the spontaneity of artistic freedom to playfully develop and express the material through different genres. Thanks to Leonor’s way of playing her five-string cello, the melody wanders between the two instruments, leaving room for improvisation. Ellinor and Leonor are also much appreciated dance musicians which can be heard in the lively triplets of Hins Anders polska, the energy filled hagervals “Karusellen”, as well as in their rendition of majestic polonaises and melancholic polskas.

Release 2019|17|05
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KAKACD035 SOLODEBUT!
HENRIK CEDERBLOM • ZOBOP

Henrik Cederblom has played guitar behind a number of great Swedish artists such as Freddie Wadling, Daniel Lemma, Sofia Karlsson and Timo Räisänen, among others. He is also known for his work with the Swedish award winning band Den Fule. Zobop is his solo debute where he has written a collection of songs that focuses on melody and groove. An urban world music that draws its inspiration from dance in different forms. Zobop brings us new meeting points: Here are influences from style icons such as Zappa and Jeff Beck, Bill Frisell and Tony Allen, but basically the music is written as folk music for electric guitar, bass, beats, drums and saxophone. “I have always loved how fiddlers play together in Swedish and Norwegian folk traditions, and I also really enjoy playing for a dancing crowd” says Henrik, “so I wanted to focus on rhythm, melody and interplay.” Zobop is a meeting between those elements and improvisation – individual as well as collective. The soul of a tune, how it orchestrates the beat, the different worlds created by the melodies and interplay – this is what makes Zobop an entirely unique place to be.

Release 2019|17|05
You can also listen to Henric (and Sten Källman) on the album Contrebande with Den Fule.
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KAKACD034
IDA&LOUISE • SHTOLTSE LIDER / PROUD POEMS

A hundred years ago, the Yiddish Culture was blooming, and there was a great movement of women poets who were driven by powerful, artistic visions. In the years after the second World War their works were forgotten, but thanks to feminist groups in the 1980’s, the works were rediscovered and translated into English. A new generation of readers could now enjoy the poetry around the world. In Shtoltse lider (Proud Poems), the duo Ida&Louise gives new life to this treasure of poetry. The duo has interpreted poems by five of the yiddish writers, by composing new music to the lyrics. “We want to build a bridge between a hidden cultural heritage and innovative female artists from the past and the future. Between languages and cultures, poetry and music“, says Ida&Louise. In their compositional work, Ida&Louise has found their inspiration deep within the lyrics, and their ambition is to create a close and moving connection between music and texts. On this album, the duo adds voice harmonies, glockenspiel, whispering and cello to their own, symbiotic sound, as well as an old recording by the poet Rokhl Korn, reciting her own poem. The poems can be read in Yiddish and English in the booklet of the CD.

Release 2019|08|03

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KAKACD033 / KAKALP004
KAJA • ORIGO (CD och LP)

Origo is a celebration of life and death, the journey and eternity.
Kaja, the trio that just stepped into its teens, unleashes their distinctly personal approach once again to embrace a broad emotional range with a creative mélange of  influences.They still have their roots in Klezmer and other Eastern European folk music, but they’ve branched out and their latest album even features influences from pop, Afro and electronica. In addition to violin, accordion and double bass, the trio also treats us to cutting-edge guest performances on scissors (!), synth bass, percussion, kalimba, grand piano, live electronica and saxophones. A 12-minute long suite nestles with a deadly waltz, a dramatic unplanned road trip, vibrant Afro beats, and a trolley trip in. All with the cinematic chamber music sound of Kaja.

Release 2019|01|03
Other albums with Kaja: Krackel, Rust, Tre Trappor Upp och Midvintervaka.

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KAKACD032       MANIFEST AWARD 2019!
JONATHAN HILLI • Jordsånger (Eart Songs)

Jordsånger is Jonathan Hillis debute album. A melancholic and poetic journey combining singer/songwriting with avantgarde, classical chambermusic, European and Swedish folkmusic. Short atmospheric almost cinematic poems accompanied by guitar and strings. Most of the album is recorded live in the producers home, an 18th century building, to keep the organic feeling of the room and to allow improvisation and vulnerability.

Release 2018|05|10
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KAKALP003
GUNNAR KÄLLSTRÖM & De praktiska husgeråden med Matti Ollikainen • Så in i väggen

Singer/Songwriter Gunnar Källström's new album Så in i väggen is a tribute to naive art. Nine basic songs becomes questions of how to survive a total breakdown. The band is painting with few lines. One take, no book, just play in the moment!

Release 2018|05|10
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KAKACD031
KARL HELDAL • VI GÅR PÅ GULT

With his third album, the Norwegian artist Karl Heldal has sought refuge among Swedish song friends. Karl Heldal has written a collection of poems that are framed by a strongly engaging pathos. The songs are comments and reflections on the time we live in here and now. It is about the way we choose to treat our fellow human beings. According to Karl, every human being is an infinite asset that is equally valuable wherever he is. It is our responsibility and our great joy to ensure that we all feel good and have a place in society that we thrive in and where it feels meaningful to work. The good thing is that these contemporary reflections find their basis in a personal, critically existentialist search. Instead of stacked moral cakes, Heldal builds his universe of equal parts faith, hope and doubt. The musical arrangements are carefully crafted to highlight and illuminate the text, exemplarily simple and effective.

Release 2018|02|15
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KAKACD030
AMERIKARESAN • Sanningen Om Big Joe - En riktig rövarhistoria

Sanningen on Big Joe (The Truth About Big Joe) is the second album from Amerikaresan for children, about the Swedish emigration. The songwriter, Marcus Svensson, is a wellknown Swedish blues musician who has toured and recorded in the roots community for the last 20 years. Sanningen om Big Joe is a swinging story about Gustaf's and Emma's adventurous life in America. The songs are in Swedish and mostly written in a rootsy and rough style. This is an exciting and entertaining album – not just for kids but for everyone.

Release 2017|10|11
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KAKACD029 / KAKALP002
SARA PARKMAN & SAMANTHA OHLANDERS • MATRIARKERNA (CD och LP!)

The matriarchy has for over 500 years been an important part of the Scandinavian herding system - but pretty excluded in the history books. With the record Matriarkerna the praised folk music duo Sara Parkman & Samantha Ohlanders takes back their traditions. Parkman and Ohlanders have invited their idols, heroines and some of Swedens biggest folk musicians to play with them on the record. The meeting between generations and discussions on the topic roots and traditions is the solid foundation on which the production stands.
Sara and Samantha are two of Swedens most interesting musicians on the folk scene today. With their feministic and anti-nationalistic folk music they have opened up for a bigger understanding of what folk music is and can be.

Release 2017|03|11
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KAKACD028
TOBIAS EREHED • HISTORIER

Swedish poetry written and performed by the extraordinary poet, singer and stand-up comedian Tobias Erehed.


Release 2017|18|05
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KAKACD027
PIREUS • REBETIKA PÅ SVENSKA

Greek rebetika in Swedish with some of Swedens most prominent greek musicians!


Release 2016/28/10
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KAKACD026
MAJORNAS 3DJE ROTE • VÄLKOMMEN HEM

Info in english will be up soon.



Release 2016/29/09
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KAKACD025 • Album debute!
SWING TARTURO • OPERATION VISION

With rebellious swing, roaring blues, playful improvisation and hopeful lyrics about a solidary and equal world Swing Tarturo generously delivers both seriousness and joy. Their unique contemporary swing is sharp, fresh, experimental and surprising.
The band has brought to life and renewed the traditional and almost entirely stagnated jazz of the 1920s. Swing Tarturo’s music sounds like an old crank gramophone or a crazy, derailed cabaret from the 1930s spiced up with a handful of punk. Their repertoire has in the recent years developed towards an emphasis on the compositions in the same tradition by the band's singer Julia Stokes and on the album Operation vision the old classics have been phased out with the exception of one song. The 1936 song Strange fruit with it’s anti-racism protest being still very relevant. The fusion between the bold and honest lyrics about equality, empathy and the anxiety of everyday life, and the inventive and often humorous music creates an exciting and striking collection of songs.

Release 2016|13|05
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KAKACD024 • Albumdebut!
FLOCKEN • ALTONA

Swedish band FLOCKEN’s debut album Altona is the result of four years of intense touring and musical experimentation between four musicians with four distinct personalities; a mutually enriching give-and-take process characterized by openness, spontaneity and intense stage presence. Since 2011, they have toured Europe extensively, performing at all kinds of venues, from the streets to established stages and acclaimed clubs. At the core of Flocken’s music, you find klezmer as well as Swedish and Balkan folk music. Composers Ida Gillner and Fredrik Brändström have also swirled in some tango, Bulgarian folk music and jazz. The result is a powerful and dynamic debut album alive with encounters between musicians, genres and artistic expressions, treating listeners to free improvisation, strict arrangements, tradition and new territory.

Release 2016|13|04
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KAKACD023 • DIGITAL RELEASE!
LUCAS STARK
• It's Strike In Paradise - The Songs Of Joe Hill


Joe Hill emigrated from Sweden to the USA at the beginning of the 20th century, and with his poems and songs came to be one of the most important voices of the early American labour rights movement. Lucas Stark has chosen thirteen of Hill’s most satirical, cutting, and urgent songs for this new album. Together in the studio with help from some of Sweden’s most well known musicians, Stark has recast Hill’s songs into new arrangements with a dash of inspiration from blues, jazz, country, rock, waltz, and ”Swedish folkpark tradition.

Also listen to the album in Swedish: KAKACD003!

Release 2015|19|11
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KAKACD022
MARIA LINDSTRÖM • LITE FÖR BRA

Swedish singer/songwriter with influenses from blues, swing, cabaret, reggae, and more.



Release 2015-11-20
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KAKACD021
GUNNAR KÄLLSTRÖM & DE PRAKTISKA HUSGERÅDEN
• VINTERGÄCK


Swedish singer/songwriter with influenses from jazz, folkmusic and storytelling. His band is formed by some of swedens most loved musicans.

Release 2014-12-01
Other Kakafon albums with Gunnar Källström: Fåglar med höjdskräck, Allt skägg är hö and 14 visor på fastande mage.
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KAKACD020
MIDNATTSORKESTERN
• ÖVER STADENS TAK - Sånger av David Löfberg


In 2009, eight musicians purchased a night ticket and stepped on the tram which would become Midnattsorkestern (The Midnight Orchestra). After five years and several tours the album Över stadens tak (Over The Rooftops) is released, containing thirteen new songs by David Löfberg. The music is a kind of mixed brew of chamber music and chanson, with additional influences from folk songs, tango and jazz. The resulting sound might be described as a beautifully over- grown genre palette, coloured by the featured musicians’ diverse backgrounds. Singer Elina Ryd
takes centre stage. With the classic four part voicing of the string quartet as foundation, supported by rhythmical accompaniment in bass and guitar, the narrating song creates a dialog with instrumental solo efforts. Everything originates from the tunes, and everything is about atmosphere. Sea and moon, evening and dawn, dream and longing, city and country road. A nocturnal landscape where the world is a giant sphere, and sea, space and melancholy infinite.

Release 2014|22|09
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KAKACD019
MARIANNE HOLMBOE & EMIL PERNBLAD • DE NOCHE

With poetic fervor and a virtuosic performance, Marianne Holmboe & Emil Pernblad infuse the heat of southern Spain with a light breeze of Nordic air. After many years of perfoming, numerous field trips and tours to Andalucía - the cradle of flamenco, these two prominent flamenco musicians present the groundbreaking album ”De Noche”. The lyrics of half of the songs originate from Emil's pen, and interestingly, the remaining half consists of poems written by Emil's grandmother Birgitta Örnstedt, who was also an internationally respected visual artist. Emils newly written music along with the poetry and a selection of Örnsteds paintings form a poetic and artistic entity. In addition to the duo's closely-knit vocals and guitar playing, several guest musicians are heard on the album, as well as the virtuoso rhythms of flamenco dancer Ann Sehlstedt 'La Pantera' s footwork.

Release 2014|08|09
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KAKACD018
MARCUS SVENSSON • AMERIKARESAN

Amerikaresan is a 10 songs long blues story for children about the Swedish emigration to America during the 1800s. The songwriter, Marcus Svensson, is a wellknown Swedish blues musician who has toured and recorded in the roots community for the last 15 years. Amerikaresan is an adventurous and swinging story where we follow the young emigrant Gustaf on his way to a better life in America. He leaves poverty and famine in Sweden behind and boards a ship to the land of oppurtunity – a dream he shared and still shares with people on the move all over the world. He reaches New York City but heads south on the Mississippi to his final destination in Louisiana. On his journey he meets railway workers, blues magicians, alligators and a
cajun princess. The songs are in Swedish and written in a rootsy and rough style. On most of the tracks Marcus uses his 1932 steel bodied National guitar. He gets good help from well known Swedish musicians and one of Sweden's most talented entertainers. Together they have created an exciting and entertaining record – not just for kids but for everyone.

Release 2014|08|09
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KAKACD017
MARIA PIHL & KG MALM · NU GÅR VI TILL FABRIKEN

Nu går vi till fabriken means Off To the Factory. Claes Pihl and Maria Pihl were set a challenge, to write and compose songs for a play about life in a small Swedish industrial town at the beginning of the last century. In the play, KG Malm acted and sang alongside Maria Pihl. The subject provoked both ideas and enthusiasm. Books were devoured, old workers interviewed and before anybody had the chance to put on the brakes, eleven songs were born. These songs show us different aspects of industrial town life, the close mindedness, the community spirit and social rifts. A central part of Swedish history is brought to life through the stories and fates of the people who populated these towns.

Release 2013|02|12
Other albums with K-G Malm: Murardrömmar
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KAKACD016 / KAKALP001
KAJA · TRE TRAPPOR UPP (CD and VINYL!)

Upstairs, ”three stories up”, you find dark nooks and crannies that open up on spacious ballrooms shimmering with light. Swaying waltzes merge into acoustic loops, improvisation, chilly sound-scapes and then into uncompromising, full-throttle folk. Nearly a decade together has honed Kaja into a genre of their own, an irresistible flowering of musical expressions. Rooted in Eastern European music, it finds nourishment in the borderlands between tradition and innovation. Following on their acclaimed album Rust, Kaja is poised to release their third album Tre Trappor Upp (Three Stories Up). Their new release displays further influences from American Folk music, acoustic club music and Indian ragas – all wrapped up in a full-bodied sound.  The results are a unique brand of daring and dazzling chamber folk, full of edgy
twists and turns.

Release 2013|18|11
Other albums with Kaja: Krackel, Rust och Midvintervaka. Kaja also plays in the group Gunnar Källström & Fridens Liljer.

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KAKACD015
NAVARRA · OM NATTEN

Navarra put its feet down in nordic traditional music with a great bang 2011 when they released their debut album "Nya fönster" ("New Windows”), which was critically acclaimed and nominated for several awards. No other band sounds quite like Navarra. They organically intermingle the character of traditional nordic music with the tone of pop and the freedom of jazz, and since the very beginning these four musicians have been notes for their irresistible energy and their genuinely original relationshop to Nordic folk music. In the album ”Om natten" (”At Night”) Navarra continues to explore its universe. How can a Jössehärs-polska become Gothenburg pop? What happens when a chorale melody encounters a distorted synthesizer and free-form drumming? Can traditional music become political disco? The answers to these, and many other questions, will be given in ”Om natten".

Release 2013|09|09
Other albums with Navarra: Nya Fönster.
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KAKACD014
DEN FULE · CONTREBANDE

The musical cosmopolitans Den Fule releases their fourth album, Contrebande, featuring guests such as Solo Cissokho, kora and vocals, and Adama Cissokho, vocals, from Senegal, and Canadian spoken word artist Sofia Baig. This eclectic and electrifying encounter between West African and Nordic folk music evolved into a truly original synthesis steeped in joie du vivre. Den Fule is a genre-bending band. Founded in the early 90s, their unique brand of folk fusion made them stand out members of the new folk scene. They have toured worldwide and have three albums to their name, the first of which, Lugumleik, won them a Swedish grammy.

Released 2013|12|08
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KAKACD013
GUNNAR KÄLLSTRÖM & FRIDENS LILJER · FÅGLAR MED HÖJDSKRÄCK

Swedish singer/songwriter with influenses from jazz, folkmusic and storytelling. His band is formed by some of swedens most loved musicans.

Released 2013|21|01
Other albums with Gunnar Källström: Vintergäck, Allt skägg är hö and 14 visor på fastande mage.
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KAKACD012
KAJA OCH TETRA · MIDVINTERVAKA

With saffron fragrant songs and cinnamon flavored tunes a vibrant Christmas brew is made of Caribbean, Scandinavian, English, Greek, Arabic, South American and East European music influences and traditional tunes. With the album "Midvintervaka" canvases Kaja & Tetra up a sumptuous Christmas dinner for everyone. It sounds ranging from Staffan Supervisor and Santa Lucia in Italian to the brand new midvinter tango and Haitian comfortable swinging Christmas music. Midvintervaka is created as a show by the two swedish folk/world music groups Kaja and Tetra. The musicians are also performing in a number of different Swedish groups and projects, such as New Tide Orquesta, Ale Möllen Band, Kultiration, Amanda and many other.

Released 2012|05|11
Other albums with musicians from Midvintervaka: Krackel, Rust and Tre Trappor Upp.
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KAKACD011  ·  Solo debute!
CAMILLA ÅSTRÖM OCH KOMPANJONERNA · VISOR FÖR FRÅGVISA

Visor för frågvisa ("songs for the curious") is an album for children and all other curious people. Music and lyrics are made by musician and composer Camilla Åström, who was greatly inspired  by her two nieces in the making of Visor för frågvisa.  The lyrics are filled with questions that might appear in the life of a small child. What does a cat eat? Hos long is a year? There are also songs about being proud of who you are, scary monsters, planning the best birthday party ever, or about the joy of riding the swing high up in the air!

Released 2012|23|04
Other albums with Camilla Åström: Krackel, Rust, Tre Trappor Upp and Midvintervaka.
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KAKACD010
GUNNAR KÄLLSTRÖM OCH DE PRAKTISKA HUSGERÅDEN
· ALLT SKÄGG ÄR HÖ


Swedish singer/songwriter with influenses from jazz, folkmusic and storytelling. His band is formed by some of swedens most loved musicans.

Released 2012|10|04
Other albums With Gunnar Källström: Fåglar med höjdskräck and 14 visor på fastande mage.
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KAKACD009 · Album debute!
OLA SANDSTRÖM SJUNGER TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER
· ELDKLOTTER


The lyrics on this album are by Tomas Tranströmer, acclaimed as one of the most important Scandinavian writers of the 20th century. In 2002, when Sandström was studying at Mälardalen University College, Tomas Tranströmer rendered a visit to the university. During the welcoming ceremony, Sandström presented two of his compositions based on Tranströmer text. This went on very well and was well received by the poet and his wife Monica. This encouraged him to compose more works The album contains musical renditions, very simple and unadorned, which is one of the poet's signature that Sandström has retained in these performances, yet at the same time giving the lyrics a new life and appeal to new listeners. The album, a culmination of Ola Sandström 10-year work from 2002 to 2011, was released on February the 6th in 2012. It couldn't have come at a more opportune time as Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Released 2012|06|02
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KAKACD008
MARKUS HULTCRANTZ & THE JUST WOKE UPS · SONGS & STORIES

Storytelling has always been the top priority for singer/songwriter Markus Hultcrantz, in close relation with thorough compositions. This is, ofcourse also the case on the album Songs & Stories, his first with english lyrics. The powerful stories are deeply grounded in Markus' and the musical collective "The Just Woke Ups"' americana-inspired arrangements.

Released 2011|21/11
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KAKACD007
LOKE · 11/11

Loke is a swedish singer-songwriter with musical and lyrical influenses from punkrock and progressive music. He has been performing all over the country since 2003 at all kind of stages and venues. Due to his great pride in artistic indipendence and close relations to his fans, Loke goes by the nickname "Lord of the Underground-Singers" and although rarely seen in media Lokes got a big and faithful crowd all over Sweden. 11/11 is the third album of Loke where he has returned to his early influences like Swedish story telling tradition and punk. 11/11 is a unholy alliance between naked acoustic and intensively loud punkrock music.

Released 2011|07|11
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KAKACD006
KG MALM · MURARDRÖMMAR · Dubbel-CD

K-G Malm's double album ”Murardrömmar” concists of storys/ monologues in the swedish storytelling-tradition performed together with the musician Dan Viktor.

Released 2011|09|12
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KAKACD005
GOODLAND TRIO · Album debute!

In Goodland, a place to be found somewhere in Sweden, the three musicians Hanna Wiskari Griffiths, Jonathan Larsson and Oskar Reuter met in the fall of 2009. Sweet music, with roots in traditional Scandinavian music, was born! The members are known from many other bands and projects such as NID, Horn Please, Habbadám, Kultiration, Agrin, Björn Kleinhenz Trio, Downtown Ramblers, The Gentle Act Incident and Västanå Teater. Their debute album prese mainly original tunes composed by the members of the band, with a distinct nordic sound. Polskas, waltzes and schottises are played in arrangements that wavers between the traditional and the contemporary, with influences of pop and improvised music. "Music to get lost in. To loose yourself and float away through time, through forest, through life." (Henrik Wallgren)

Released 2011|08|22
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KAKACD004
NAVARRA · NYA FÖNSTER · Album debute!

With roots deep in Swedish soil, Navarra launches and gives new wings to Nordic folk music tradition. Courageously, earnestly, energetically and with an intimate appeal, pianist Arvid Kästel and lead singer Sofia Bergström perform new creations side by side with riksspelman and violinist Erika Risinger and Carl-Johan Groth on drums. Four strong personalities who have already made a name for themselves thanks to their focused live performances at festival stages around the country. Now, the band’s debut album is released.

Released 2011|09|05
Other albums with Navarra: Om natten.
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KAKACD003
LUCAS STARK SJUNGER JOE HILL · STREJK I PARADISET

Joe Hill emigrated from Sweden to the USA in the beginning of the 20th century. With his poems and songs he became one of the most important voices in the early years of the USA’s trade union movement. For the first time in almost 40 years his songs have now been given a holistic approach in Swedish. The singer Lucas Stark has selected thirteen of the most satirical, well-aimed and important songs which he has brought up to date and, in some cases, translated into Swedish for the first time. In the studio some of Sweden’s best-known musicians have helped him mould the
tunes in new arrangements with a whiff of blues, jazz, country,
rock and Viennese waltz.

Released 2010|08|11
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KAKACD002
KAJA · RUST

Klezmer and other Eastern European Folk music is the foundation, adding layers of film and contemporary music, Tango, Swedish folk tunes and improvisation. During starlit sparkling Swedish winter nights, to accompaniment of sea gull and squeaking Gothenburg trams, and on train rides between east and west, the music of the album Rust has been created. Together, the three musicians have sought a way to make the new compositions come alive through surprising arrangements as well as intimate interplay. The album contains both melancholic and playful melodies, richly ornamented and fully harmonized. All resting on grounded, groovy rhythms. The music finds its fuel in Eastern European Folk music traditions, but the experimental parts makes the genre Kaja´s very own. Rust is outspoken, deep-rooted, wide and meandering.

Released 2010|20|09
Other albums with Kaja: Krackel, Tre Trappor Upp och Midvintervaka. Kaja also plays in the group Gunnar Källström & Fridens Liljer.
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KAKACD001
GUNNAR KÄLLSTRÖM & FRIDENS LILJER
· 14 VISOR PÅ FASTANDE MAGE


Swedish singer/songwriter with influenses from jazz, folkmusic and storytelling. His band is formed by some of swedens most loved musicans.

Released 2010|23|08
Other albums with Gunnar Källström: Vintergäck, Allt skägg är hö and Fåglar med höjdskräck.
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FOMCD001
KAJA · KRACKEL Album debute!

Carefully wrought from two years of interplaying, Kajas first full-length album Krackel saw the light of day! There is magic, nerve and absolute presence when trio Kaja present their compositions with the musical language of Klezmer as the main ingredient.
The music expands beyond conventional limits when Livet Nord, Camilla Åström and Daniel Wejdin let their previous musical experiences become a natural part of Kaja´s sound. Influences of Tango, Jazz and Balkan Folk music is some of the components in this “new klezmer” of Kaja. This is young, innovative and absolutely fabulous music.

Released 2007|31|03
Other albums with Kaja: Tre Trappor Upp, Rust och Midvintervaka. Kaja also plays in the group Gunnar Källström & Fridens Liljer.
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