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Jan Johansson har följt mig genom hela min uppväxt, och jag är nu inne i min kanske hundrade jazz på svenska/ryska-period.

Det är niz.

Jan Johansson
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I must admit I had a hard time imagining the usefulness of the wipe function for clearing all your scrobbled tracks. That is, up until my tracks played started approaching 30.000 and suddenly the music that I'm listening to right now isn't even reflected in my profile. It's hard when you have a threshold of 150 listens just for an artist to make it into the top 50.

So, in the interest of accuracy, I've decided to wipe it all and start with a clean slate. Music preferences echange all the time, and I'm saving my top 50 to a text document for future reference. Just to chronicle the whole thing, I'll post it here as well:

The top 50 artists played between the 26th of November 2005 and the 24th of January 2008 are, in order:

Bohren & der Club of Gore
Low
Hawksley Workman
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Elliott Smith
16 Horsepower
Tindersticks
The Black Heart Procession
Tom Waits
Pinetop Seven
Johnny Cash
Clara Rockmore
Codeine
Byla
Under Byen
Woven Hand
Alice in Chains
Isis
Queen
The Tiger Lillies
The Vanity Set
Grinderman
Maximilian Hecker
Jan Johansson
Regina Spektor
Sigur Rós
God Is an Astronaut
King Crimson
Dirty Three
Mogwai
Rasputina
Joanna Newsom
Karate
The Album Leaf
Leonard Cohen
65daysofstatic
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Blue Öyster Cult
Soundgarden
Galaxie 500
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Julee Cruise
Hägga
Lilium
The Samuel Jackson Five
Maia Hirasawa
Antony and the Johnsons
Morphine
The Magnetic Fields
Okkervil River

A pretty nice list of artists if I say so myself.

(с) 2005 ACT, vocal jazz Viktoria Tolstoy - My Swedish Heart


Ясный и прозрачный альбом респектабельного вокального джаза. Базис записи (а там целый фундамент!), архитектонику музыкальной конструкции – я интерпретировал и опознал не сразу. «Органичная, близкая мне музыка»... Чувство Deja Vu появилось сразу же на паре первых треков: «Моё!» – но «что именно?» моё.

Отсылка к близкому всегда фольклору (шведскому в данном случае)? Фортепьянные мотивы в духе «шведского русского» Jan Johansson?…

Лишь на третьем треке альбома догадался – конечно! Узнаваемый акустический басс Lars Danielsson'а!

Сверил по выходным данным – мало того, что Ларс непосредственный автор, открывающей карты 3-ей по счёту пьесы на диске From Above – он же и музыкант исполнитель. А в целом – его руками сделана сама запись музыки. Отточенные формы и наполнение акустических: баса, гитары, фортепьяно – всё это произведения Ларса. Ровно в том же 2005-ом он выпускал свой Libera Me – и перекинуть звуковой мостик между обеими пластинками – следует.

Dannys Dreaming - как дуэт Даниельсона и пианиста Jacob Karlzon
The Morning of You - c чуть прифанкованная басом, с нотками fusion гитары Ulf Wakenius'а
или меланхоличная, богатая рояльными клавишами Mayday

Каждая перечисленная (и не-) пьеса – полноценна без голоса. Тем не менее – это песни (если о джазовом пении вообще уместно думать, как о «песнях»).

Виктория Толстая – поёт оптимистично, мажорно интонируя по американским законам. Отстраиваясь чуть в сторону от минорных по-европейски, по-таривердиевски инструменталистов. Не сказал бы, что главная партия здесь та, титульная с обложки, женская. Скорее привычный шведский сплав, чередование ролей.

Минор, мажор. Музыканты, певица. Где иногда выносится на первый план имя вокалистки, в других случаях (а Толстая поёт на скандинавских пластинках, подписанных крупными именами в джазе) – фамилия инструменталиста, композитора.

Шведский метод перекрёстного опыления в джазе. Ну и сердце – оно тоже swedish.

Jaha efter fadäsen med Playlistan så kommer här veckans bästa låtar.


1 Leather Nun – Ensam I Natt
2 Electric Six– Nuclear War (On the dance Floor)
3 AC/DC – Soul Stripper
4 Doktor Kosmos – Haschtomte 0:30
5 Jan Johansson – Visa från Rättvik

Again, no idea who Pimm is, I just found it through Google.

My weekly chart league table for 2006 is as follows:

1. Magyar Posse (6 times at the top of a weekly chart)
2. Pink Floyd (4)
3. Camel (3)
=4. Birchville Cat Motel, Caul, Eivør Pálsdóttir, Iron Maiden, Sigur Rós, The Gathering, Thomas Dybdahl (2 times)
=5. Anathema, Atrium Carceri, Coph Nia, Herbst9, Inade, Jan Johansson, Jääportit, José González, Kammarheit, King Crimson, Lustmord, Mari Boine, N64, Nadja, Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar, Otyg, Porcupine Tree, raison d'être, Slayer, Skepticism, Thule, When Day Descends, Zoar (1 time)

That probably wasn't worth doing, but oh well.

1 Hawksley Workman 365
2 Bohren & der Club of Gore 337
3 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 292
4 16 Horsepower 247
5 Tindersticks 225
6 Codeine 224
7 Clara Rockmore 214
8 Woven Hand 212
8 Pinetop Seven 212
10 Low 210
11 The Black Heart Procession 209
12 Queen 197
13 Tom Waits 195
14 Alice in Chains 194
15 Elliott Smith 187
16 Johnny Cash 179
17 Maximilian Hecker 172
18 The Vanity Set 170
19 Under Byen 167
20 Regina Spektor 164
21 Dirty Three 156
22 Joanna Newsom 150
23 The Tiger Lillies 146
24 Mogwai 139
25 Rasputina 138
26 Isis 133
27 Byla 130
28 Maia Hirasawa 127
29 Gamine 125
30 Antony and the Johnsons 124
31 Jan Johansson 123
32 Hägga 120
33 Soundgarden 116
34 The Album Leaf 115
35 Team Sleep 114
35 Okkervil River 114
35 Jackie-O Motherfucker 114
38 Sigur Rós 113
39 The Merkin Dream 112
39 Morphine 112
41 God Is an Astronaut 109
41 Fugazi 109
43 Julee Cruise 108
44 King Crimson 107
45 Galaxie 500 106
46 Phish 100
47 The Samuel Jackson Five 98
47 Gregor Samsa 98
49 Gogol Bordello 96
49 Richard Hawley 96



I'm not going to comment on all the artists, but I'll write a few words about my top 10.

Well I finally reached the magic 20.000. Well, what's so magical about it I don't know, but it's a nice and even amount to set as a checkpoint for future reference.

My insane obsession with Hawksley Workman last spring really set him apart from the rest of the field. To boost, he's an artist I discovered through this very site. Above all, it's the variety of his catalogue that blows me away. How he seamlessly blends genres like a madman and it all comes together fantastically. Oh, and he sings like a god.

The gloomy majesty of Bohren & der Club of Gore claims the runner-up position. Another artist discovered thgouh Last.fm, I've never heard anything as soothing, yet haunting at the same time. Doom jazz is the shit.

Nick Cave claims third place along with his Bad Seeds, but if this list would've spanned more than just a year he would be so far up on top it wouldn't even be funny. I've been a fan of him for over ten years by now, and his music still kicks my ass on a regular basis.

16 Horsepower is kicking it at fourth place, and deservedly so. David Eugene Edwards music practically knocked me out the first time I heard it and it's still some of the best stuff I've ever heard. I tend to favor Horsepower over Woven Hand, but not by much as is evidenced by Woven occupying eighth place on this list aswell.

Tindersticks awakened my love for chamber pop and I'm almost surprised that they're not placed higher than fifth. There are times when I practically don't listen to anything but Tindersticks. Stuart Staples is easily one of the best singers ever in my book.

And then there's codeine at number six. I wasn't even aware that I've listened to them as much as I have. That's probably because I almost only listen to Codeine when I'm horribly depressed. Which is pretty understandable since the defining quality of Codeine is how well their music fit as a soundtrack to all sorts of depression. In other words, the Codeine ratio is an indicator of how depressed I've been. And I had a really rough spring. Nuff said.

Clara Rockmore hypnotized me with her theremin voodoo earlier this year and has made it all the way up to number seven. An incredible virtuoso that has sadly been forgotten and overlooked. Some of the best and the creepiest (it's theremin music, after all) I've ever heard.

My love for chamber pop lead to my discovering Pinetop Seven a whole bunch of years ago. I had forgotten about them until late 2005, where I had a pleasant reunion with them. It's really good shit, and an almost tragically overlooked band. There's not nearly enough love for Pinetop Seven out there.

And coming in at tenth is Low. For a long time they were on top of my list when I had a period of slowcore obsession. I don't listen to them as much nowadays, but they're still a fantastic band.

So that's it for the 20.000 checkpoint I guess. We'll see how it looks the next time I can be arsed to summarize things. Until then.

The Music Chain III has doubled the normally possible artists connections (which is 200) and reached over 400 artists now. Of course we are still bound with the hardcoded limit in our connections page. But we just continued including artists in our list of current connections.

Not only that; all connections were tagged with music chain, so if you listen to our globag tag music chain, you will get the pure music chain, as opposed to the group radio, which will include everything our members listen.

Take a look at our list and see if you are eligible (see group info on group page) to join. Let's just extend this music chain even wider. This group is a guaranteed way to generate a unique, extremely ecclectic and also in the long run rather obscure radio, with our global tag, the music chain. Come join us! :)

UPDATED list of current connections, 19/10/2006:

This is the current list of the chains' connections, in alphabetical order. So, you can easily check if one of your top 10'ers is among them and join. Take a look:

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
16 Horsepower
A Silver Mt. Zion
Abdullah Ibrahim
Adam Green
Add N to (X)
Aerosmith
AFI
After Forever
a-ha
Alter Bridge
Ambeon
Anathema
Anekdoten
Angélique Kidjo
Angelo Badalamenti
Animal Collective
Annie Lennox
Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse
Anthrax
Aphex Twin
Apocalyptica
Arch Enemy
Arctic Monkeys
Arkin Allen
Audioslave
Auf der Maur
Autechre
Bad Company
Badly Drawn Boy
Bamberger Symphoniker
Basement Jaxx
Beck
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Billy Joel
Billy Talent
Blackmore's Night
Blind Guardian
Bo Kaspers Orkester
Boney M.
Boston
Boyzone
Buddy Guy
Built to Spill
Bullet For My Valentine
Busdriver
Cake
Callisto
Capcom Sound Team
Carl Orff
Cat Power
Charles Mingus
Chevelle
Chicago
Children of Bodom
CKY
Claire Voyant
Clannad
CoH
Coil
Collide
Conjure One
Cream
Current 93
D.N.Angel
Daniel Amos
Danko Jones
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
David Sylvian
Dead Artist Syndrome
Dead Kennedys
Death Cab for Cutie
Deep Blue Something
Deep Forest
Deep Purple
Deerhoof
Deftones
Delerium
Demon Hunter
Demons & Wizards
Die Ärzte
Dir en grey
Disturbed
DJ Mystik
Doves
DragonForce
Edguy
Eels
Einstürzende Neubauten
Electric Light Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley
Emiliana Torrini
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra
Enigma
Ensemble Accentus
Ensemble Unicorn
Entwine
Enya
Eric Clapton
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Esthero
Eve 6
Explosions in the Sky
Faith and the Muse
Fatboy Slim
Fear Factory
Feist
Felix Mendelssohn
final fantasy vii: advent children
final fantasy x
Finntroll
Fiona Apple
Five for Fighting
Fleetwood Mac
Flogging Molly
Flёur
Foetus
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush
Frank Zappa
Franz Ferdinand
Frou Frou
Fuat Saka
Gackt
Garbage
Garth Brooks
Genesis
George Harrison
Ghost of the Robot
Glenn Miller
Goldfrapp
Gomez
Gorillaz
Göksel Baktagir
Grateful Dead
Gravitation
Green Day
grim fandango ost
Guided by Voices
Halou
Hans Zimmer
Hanson
Happy Rhodes
Harry Gregson-Williams
HIM
Hideyuki Fukasawa
HIM
Hole
Hooverphonic
In Flames
Incubus
Infadels
Inkuyo
Jacek Kaczmarski
Jack Johnson
Jack Off Jill
Jahcoustix
Jamie Cullum
Jamie Lidell
Jamiroquai
Jan Johansson
Jason Mraz
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jeremy Soule
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
Joe Satriani
Johann Sebastian Bach
John Mayer
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
Julee Cruise
Kaizers Orchestra
Kamelot
Kansas
Karate
Kate Bush
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Kent
Killing Joke
Killswitch Engage
King Crimson
King's Noyse
Kings of Convenience
King's X
Kirsty MacColl
Klaus Badelt
KMFDM
K'naan
Korpiklaani
Kory & The Fireflies
Kreator
Kyo
La Kinky Beat
Lacuna Coil
Ladytron
Laibach
Lampshade
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Lars Winnerbäck
Le Mystère des voix Bulgares
Led Zeppelin
Less Than Jake
Linkin Park
Lordi
Lords of Acid
Louise Attaque
Ludwig van Beethoven
Madonna
Mano Negra
Mansun
Marianne Faithfull
Marillion
Marilyn Manson
Markos Vamvakaris
Martin Zobel
Massive Attack
Masterplan
Mazzy Star
mega man
Megadeth
Megaherz
Melt-Banana
Melvins
Mercan Dede
Mew
Michael Jackson
Miles Davis
Millencolin
Mink DeVille
Mogwai
Mokoma
Morcheeba
Moxy Früvous
My Bloody Valentine
Nato
Nelly Furtado
Nevermore
New Order
Niels W. Gade
Nightwish
Nils Lofgren
Nina Simone
Nirvana
NOFX
Nouvelle Vague
Nový Svêt
Nujabes
Nurse With Wound
of Montreal
ohGr
Olive
Opeth
Orbital
Orbital
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
ORIGA
Orient Expressions
OSI
Over the Rhine
Pain
Panic! At the Disco
Pantera
Paradise Lost
Patrick Wolf
Peaches
Pearl Jam
Peeping Tom
Peter Gabriel
Phish
Piana
Pixies
Pizzicato Five
PJ Harvey
Poets of the Fall
Polysics
Portishead
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Primus
Prince
Project 86
Queen
Queensrÿche
Ramones
REO Speedwagon
Rob Zombie
Robbie Williams
Robin Trower
Roger Waters
Röyksopp
Rufus Wainwright
Ruins
Ruudolf
Ry Cooder
Saez
Safri Duo
Sagopa Kajmer
Santana
Sarah McLachlan
Semisonic
Sepultura
Sheryl Crow
Siam Shade
Sister Hazel
Sixpence None the Richer
Ska-P
Slayer
Slowblow
Slowdive
Sonata Arctica
Sonic Team
Sorrow
Soundgarden
Spock's Beard
Staple
Starsailor
Status Quo
Stereolab
Steve Miller Band
Stratovarius
Styx
Sublime
Sufjan Stevens
Super Mario
Supertramp
Svenska Akademien
T.M.Revolution
Tahiti 80
T-Bone Burnett
Tehosekoitin
Terami Hirsch
The Alan Parsons Project
The Anix
The Ark
The Beach Boys
The Beautiful South
The Black Heart Procession
The Black Mages
The BossHoss
The Byrds
The Choir
The Clash
The Concretes
The Cranberries
The Distillers
The Doors
The Fall
The Fantasticks
The Folger Consort
The For Carnation
The Future Sound of London
The Get Up Kids
The Ink Spots
The Killers
The Knife
The Legendary Pink Dots
The Locust
The Police
The Prodigy
The Rasmus
The Sisters of Mercy
The Smiths
The Streets
The Strokes
The Zutons
Thea Gilmore
Theatre of Tragedy
Therion
Thievery Corporation
This Heat
Thom Yorke
Tom Waits
Tracy Chapman
Trigon
Turbostaat
Turisas
Tyskarna Från Lund
U2
Ulrik Cold & Kristian Buhl-Mortensen
Underworld
Uriah Heep
Urma
Van der Graaf Generator
Van Morrison
VAST
Weezer
Within Temptation
Xandria
X-Ecutioners
Yann Tiersen
Yanni
Yoko Kanno ft. The Seatbelts
Ленинград
ポルノグラフィティ
下村陽子
光田康典
坂本真綾
松枝賀子 & 江口貴勅
桜庭統
梶浦由記
浜渦正志
緒方恵美
鷺巣詩郎

(407 connections total)

* Den svenske pianisten Jan Johansson står øvst på lista mi over jazzmusikarar for tida. Platene hans med Georg Riedel er herlege melankolske duettar ein gjerne nyter seint på kvelden.

* Den amerikanske pianisten Chick Corea er ein annan favoritt her heime. Særleg spelar eg "What game shall we play today" når eg kjenner meg glad og optimistisk.

* Doug Munro er ganske ukjend, men spelar gitar ganske fint, og innanfor ein jazzsjanger eg set pris på.

* Keith Jarrett dukkar òg opp i spelelistene no og då. Då særleg ting han gjer saman med Jan Garbarek.

* Charles Mingus frekventerer diverre heller sjeldan. Men flink var gubben.

Jazz er elles kjekt live.