In 1982, a well-known Swedish band released a song about a walk in the summer rain. Swedish musical life at that time was divided into two groups. It was almost like a race between Blur-Oasis or Beatles-Rolling Stones. Tobias, singer, and songwriter of the band Emerald Park was still a kid at the time but grew up with this competition and tended to side with the Beatles or Blur.

In July this year, Tobias heard this song on the radio and had the idea for the lyrics to "We Wasted All Our Memories", which had already been recorded at the time. Tobias couldn’t hide the fact that the nostalgic lyrics that the band used to write really appealed to him.

"We Wasted All Our Memories" is the second joint single by Emerald Park, Danish Daycare and The Lonely Sasquatch. The tempo is faster this time, and the song seems almost danceable. Stars or Arcade Fire could be a reference. However, the emotional mood follows the previous song with its Nordic melancholy, which is characterized by a nostalgic hopelessness.

The song was recorded at A Place to Mourn by Mattias (The Lonely Sasquatch). The instruments were played by Mattias, Tobias, Daniel, and their mutual friend Linus Lindvall. Daniel (Danish Daycare) mixed the song and Carl Granberg did the mastering.

Emerald Park - We Wasted All Our Memories

Makin-A-Munson

In My Hand

Pirates

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As The Walls Close In

After their outstanding self-titled debut album (2011) and the breathtaking subsequent album “Choirs of Blessed Youth” (2014), the Swedish post punk / shoegaze band lead by Fernando Honoratio, true to their vision, continues to carve out its own unique musical path.

As a first glimpse of their new album “Oceans”, to be released in early May, the new song and video "Strangers in The Night" was revealed on March 10th. The song is produced and mixed by the band themselves and the accompanying video is made by Swedish director Jacob Frössén, who among other things created the acclaimed documentary films "En film om Olle Ljungström" and "Henric De La Cour" in Sweden.

As B-sides to the single, there are two remixes made by the Swedish synth producer Mister Monell, and by the dark pop/electro band New Canyons from Chicago who made the song ready for the dancefloor.

Strangers In The Night

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Forward, And / Or Dust

After their dreamlike-melancholic success album "The Search for Connection Contact And Community" in September 2011, THE SEARCH return with a new line-up and album. While the rather silent and melancholic tunes were dominating on the forerunner, the new album "Staying Alive In A Country Industrialized" builds the bridge to the early days of the Swedes.

Survive? In a world, permanently getting faster and more industrailized this doesn’t seem so easy. The woebegone experience to feel alone in a world dominated by humanity, the head and songwriter Razmig Tekeyan had to make. Not least due to this the last album came out so melancholic. More than three years passed by, since the forerunner "Saturnine Songs". Unplanned and pressed by the quest for meaning and losses, because all, exceot drummer Pelle, left the six-headed formation, to concentrate on other duties.

So much better is, that "Staying Alive In A Country Industrialized" forms the perfect sequel of The Search’s story in its content as well as in the music. The will to survive appears within the whole work, love, romance and subtle humour season the songs and the retro-sounds in a way similar to Wave- and Rock-classics such as The Cure or Joy Division replenish the lusty indie pop perfectly.

The Search stay themselves and have proven once more, how developable they are. The band is only a quartette, but the difference is barely sensible. Reduced to the basics, musically stronger and closer to their own roots and grown in life with a lot of own experiences. Two albums within less than one year give the power as well as the upcoming tour, on which The Search will play in germany more often as before.

Staying Alive In A Country Industrialized

This Bird Doesn't Sing Anymore

We Fell Asleep In Each Other's Arms And Never Woke Up Again

I Could Never Get Close To You

Losing Touch

Diving Into Another Person

Looking For The Flesh And The Blood

Amanda, What Have You Done?

Staring Into a Screen

The Crawling Eye

Pt.III

Breakdown

To the Crunch

Can't Walk Thru This Alone

PT.II

Electricity Don't Lose Me

In Your Face

PT.I

Laura

Gossip Girls

Into The Action

Home

'Danish Daycare' is the solo project by Daniel Jonsson from Malmo, who has achieved quite a lot during his musical career besides being a solo performer.

Between 2001-2005 Daniel played Keyboards for 'Eyedrop', a group originating from Malmo. In 2002 the first album "You And Me Vs. The Machine" was released and Eyedrop made themselves quite well known in southern Sweden. Unfortunately the band split up in 2005 and the members drifted apart. At that time Daniel already had some new ideas, taking place in a small recording studio in his apartment in Malmo. The solo project Danish Daycare was born.

Some 3-4 songs were recorded before Daniel joined yet another band from Malmo: Emerald Park - now as guitarist and keyboarder. Already during the work with Emerald Park, Daniel worked parallel on the record of his own songs, in all simplicity and by small means in his apartment studio, which now was named Danish Daycare Studio.

Danish Daycare produced more and more songs, eventually 10 tracks on the debut album were recorded and contracted to Smaragd Records.

afmusic, already working with Emerald Park, started cooperating with Danish Daycare and on September 9, 2009, the first single "A Purpose To My Sins" will be released on this german netlabel. The ten different songs on Danish Daycare's "A Story Of Hurt" describe the inner feelings of a 34 year old Malmo citizen; love and betrayal, tenderness and pain, friendship and reflections upon life in general.

Amongst many others, influences from The Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode and Doves - which all played an important role in Daniels musical life time - can clearly be heard. In 2008 Emerald Park's album "For Tomorrow" was released, but in 2009 Daniel put all his energy and soul to complete the Danish Daycare debut album.

Dead To Them

She Said A Lot

Never Change Never Fade

A Purpose To My Sins

With the help of producer Carl Granberg and musician from Malmö and Lund Tobias Borelius from Emerald Park (Malmö, Sweden) has recorded a solo album with Swedish lyrics. “Du känner mig för väl, farväl” ("You know me too well, goodbye") is a musical tapas table - small pithy and tasty songs spiced with humor, love, earnest and cynicism.

The musical theme of the record is the old analog synthesizers, the Nord Lead and the acoustic guitar. Where Emerald Park sometimes goes against the great and lengthy, Tobias solo songs is short and intimate. The sound is influenced by Swedish artists such as Familjen, Adolphsson & Falk, Kent and Olle Ljungström. But the goal during the recording process has always been to keep that "home-in" feeling that existed in demo recordings.

Du känner mig för väl, farväl

Bokslut

Arkitekten

Sprickor

afmusic is celebrating its 10-Year Anniversary with the CD compilation “Join the Dark Side, We Have the Music!”. The 14-track album, to be released on November 2, includes songs from the label’s main artists Principe Valiente, Golden Apes, The Search, (((S))) and The Silence Industry, as well as unheard and rare material from bands the label has worked with in the past years.

afmusic can look back at more than 150 digital releases and a successfully established strategy to offer a large part of the repertoire as a net label under a free license. Next to those, there have been more than 100 CD or Vinyl releases in the Dark Wave-, Gothic-, Post Punk- and Independent-Genre.

But this compilation is much more than looking back, it’s also a preview of things to come.

With previously unreleased tracks from Golden Apes (“Voykova” is taken from their upcoming album “Kasbek” to be released in March 2019), Emerald Park, Principe Valiente, The Silence Industry, Shearer and Supreme Soul this compilation takes the listener to the future of www.aenaos-records.com.

We're Gonna Have A Good Time

House Of Pleasures

Repsol's Dirty Dreams

Electromagnetic(New)Wave

(I) Believe

Voykova

Timeless And Elegant

The Cave

Buried

Oceans

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