Since first breaking onto the alt-pop scene in 2007, Owl City has built a global following on the strength of his heart-on-sleeve songwriting and endlessly inventive sound. Along with earning a monumental hit with the diamond-certified “Fireflies”—a 2009 release that reached No. 1 in 26 countries—the Minnesota-bred artist otherwise known as Adam Young has made waves with smash singles like the double-platinum “Good Time” feat. Carly Rae Jepsen and brought his exuberant live set to sold-out shows around the world. With total album sales of over three million and single sales surpassing 20 million globally, Owl City has now delivered the highly anticipated new album Coco Moon: a wildly imaginative body of work revealing his deepened devotion to the strange magic of creativity.

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OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

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frid and frid studio was formed in 2008 by the two brothers karl and pär frid. they have since composed music and created various sounds together. even though they were brought up together they soon took different paths within the creative world of music. years later and with experiences richer they teamed up to bring their different knowledges together. 


pär, from the beginning a talented piano player took off to study composition in the gothenburg conservatory of music and then to the conservatoire national superieur de musique et danse de paris as well as the prestigious audio research institute ircam in paris.

he is today considered as one of the most promising and sought after contemporary composers of his generation in europe, with a personal style combining classical instruments with new technology. he has written music for all types of constellations within the classical area as well as creating various new media art works. in 2010 his ensemble work déjá-vu, over and over again was awarded with a swedish grammy award for best classical record together with the sonanza ensemble. for the moment he is working on several commissions for ensembles and constellations in europe and the united states.

karl studied classical music at the royal college of music in london, before making a u-turn. he then went to cuba to study afro-cuban music at the cnsea in havana. after this he also studied a year at skurups folkhögskola in the south of sweden before finishing his studies in afro-american music at the royal college of music in stockholm. since then he has mainly worked as a freelance musician, arranger and composer. his vast knowledge in music ranges from classical and jazz music to latin american and popular music.

he has played with groups and artists such as koop, calle real, sternfall, maia hirasawa, ahmadu jah highlife orchestra, hoffmaestro & chraa, vincent, bob hanson, eva dahlgren, louise hoffsten, pauline, jasmine kara, calixto oviedo, marit bergman, rasmus faber. 

written numerous of arrangements for different albums with pauline, hoffmaestro, eva bergendahl, louise hoffsten, jasmine kara, calle real, bob hanson, rasmus faber.


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