I have just returned from my latest tour away from Sweden, this time back to the Pestilent Island that I grew up on. I took new tape loops act #tejploopare and shouty sweary electropunkers #loafofbeard with me.
Tejploopare is a straightforward enough act - I have 3 tape machines and process the audio from birds sounds, ice/water sounds and weather sounds all captured on #hammarö over the past year or so. I was lucky to find a small and light mixer on #tradera for about 250SEK which has a delay and repeat function that could be applied to 2 channels, which made for interesting sounds and gave me further ideas for expanding this act in the future. The sounds of nature could be bent into something that several people remarked upon as like effects in horror films. From beauty to fright! This was an idea that was in the back of my mind anyway, so nice that it happened and was appreciated.
Loaf of Beard are pretty much established now and I am feeling much more confident in my (mostly solo) stagecraft and getting folks involved in certain parts of the concert was pretty easy. And I remember all the words now.
As always I am very lucky that I have time and energy to do what I do and I have my wife, her mother, my dad, other people I stopped with (Andy and Tina, Josu) and all the promoters to thank for making these things happen. I am extremely lucky that I know promoters who trust me enough to take a gamble on what I do when I announce a new thing is available. Every promoter has said yes to <<I have this new thing, but I have no idea what it is yet, can you give me a gig?>>
I am massively grateful that people put their trust in me, as the majority of performers are.
The state of the German Railway infrastructure still frustrates, but until that state decides to fix all all the issues, then not much will change. But enough of that.
I got back to Värmland exactly the time I was expected to. And I am so glad to be back.
The next few months will see new music being worked on for my space pop act #arclid, my crap Swedish rapper #mcskooghall and #loafofbeard. I will also be doing a lot of visual art.
LoS
