for best singer/singwriter Album 2016 at the Manifest Awards (Swedish independent Awards)

Singer/songwriter:
Årets vinnare har genom åren byggt upp ett oerhört livsverk av urstarka, briljanta album, där han med sitt senaste verk utmanar och utvecklar sitt egna omisskänneliga uttryck till fulländning.  En låtskrivare som utmanat ett traditionellt uttryck genom att hålla fast vid sina egna rötter i den alternativa musikscenen. Berättelserna framförs av en röst med sådan obeveklig tyngd, närvaro och auktoritet att det inte finns några andra ord att beskriva det med än världsklass. En uppvisning av en mästare och en av de mest säregna singer/songwriter-begåvningarna av sin generation. Vinnaren är:

Christian Kjellvander – A Village: Natural Light (Startracks)

I big deal to us. 1.000.000 on a track from 2001 (From the Northern Blues Album)!!

“Wow!

So my song All Lovers Hell just passed one million streams on Spotify! That’s 1.000 000!
I have never had a million of anything, ever, so this is a really big deal for me.

I remember when i wrote All Lovers Hell, I instantly knew It had something. Something that could grab hold of the listener and share the feeling of ”this has happened to me too”. It’s straight forward but still has just enough mystery to it not to get too obvious.
I like songs that you can put your own persona into.
I usually say when people ask me what it’s about, that it doesn’t matter. What matters is what you, as a listener, think it’s about. What’s it about for you?

It has now been listened to over a million times. Thank you! I appreciate it.

Kristofer”

All Lovers Hell on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sI4vBd4dpJVypfsgFTVoo

03 feb – Lund, Mejeriet
04 feb – Kalmar, söderport, Popidyll
21 april – Varberg, Varbergs Teatern

22.02.17 Hamburg – Hafenklang

23.02.17 Berlin – Privatclub

24.02.17 Bielefeld – Falkendom

25.02.17 Aachen – Raststätte

26.02.17 Münster – Fachwerk

01.03.17 CH-Zürich – Bogen F

02.03.17 CH-St.Gallen – Grabenhalle

03.03.17 AT-Vöcklabruck – OKH

04.03.17 Schorndorf – Manufaktur

05.03.17 München – Milla

06.03.16 Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal

07.03.16 Fürth – Kofferfabrik

08.03.17 Mainz – Schon Schön

09.03.17 Düsseldorf – Kassette

10.03.17 Bremen – KITO

11.03.17 Dresden – Beatpol

They are back from tour and made their tourmerch available online

tigerlou.tictail.com

In time for their two shows (Pustervik/Göteborg Dec 9th and Debaser Medis Dec 14th) there is some merch available. Also on mailorder for You foreigners. www.firesidemerch.tictail.com

Debut solo Album by Jakob Nyström (former singer of Isolation Years). Music is both stripped down and solo but also tracks with some of Umeå finest musicians.

Fans of The War On Drugs, Wilco, Go-Betweens should likely to be fans of Algesten
A1 – Never Leaving
A2 – Holding On
A3 – Lord I Know It’s Childish
A4 – I Flew
A5 – Troubles
B1 – Stranded
B2 – Only Child
B3 – Lazyblade
B4 – Rushing Water
B5 – Open Wound