Jens Lekman annoncerer de to albums The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom og The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom
Den svenske artist Jens Lekman vender i dag tilbage med en spændende nyhed: Secretly Canadian og Jens genudgiver hans to tidligere albums Oh So You’re So Silent Jens og Night Falls Over Kortedala, der begge ikke længere eksisterer i deres originale form. Hvert album bliver genudgivet med nye titler: Oh You’re So Silent Jens hedder nu The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom og er ude digitalt i dag, og Night Falls Over Kortedala hedder The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom og udkommer digitalt d. 4. maj. Begge albums udkommer fysisk d. 3. juni 2022.
Både The Cherry Trees… og The Linden Trees… beholder samme kerne i form af trackliste, ånd og materiale som på de originale udgivelser. Nogle sange kommer i nye versioner, mens mange af sangene forbliver som de var originalt. Begge albums indeholder nu også sjældne tracks, der ikke før er blevet udgivet.
“These new records are like portals that can lead you to the old records if you want,” siger Lekman. “I think that they can lead you to another time and place, where you could work with music in a different way.”
Lekman deler i dag en ny Jesper Norda & Kristian Berglund-instrueret video til en af fanfavoritterne ’Maple Leaves’, der blev udgivet første gang i 2004 og som nu er lavet i en ny version på The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom - som en ballade med fine strygere. Se videoen til ’Maple Leaves’ her.
Med romantiske, sjove og virkelige fortællinger fra livet i forstæderne i Göteborg, kommer Lekmans tidlige sange fra en anderledes tid og sted: en æra hvor internettet var ungt, grænseløst og forstyrrende, hvor samplekulturen vendte musikken på hovedet, og alt føltes muligt. I 2003 signede Jens Lekman med Secretly Canadian og sammen udgav de tre limited edition EP’er (Maple Leaves, Rocky Dennis og Julie), som i 2005 blev samlet til albummet Oh You’re So Silent Jens. I 2007 udgav de Lekmans gennembrudsalbum Night Falls Over Kortedala.
Oh You’re So Silent Jens forsvandt i 2011 og i 2022 fulgte Night Falls Over Kortedala trop. En impuls for at give gammel musik nyt liv, har ledt Jens til at genskabe disse to albums under nye navne.
“In many ways the remaking of these records is so much in line with what I was doing at the time,” siger Jens Lekman. “These records are a way of keeping music alive. It’s not preserving music; it’s allowing it to change. Preserved music is dead. I think that’s something that makes me sad about music these days, that it feels sometimes like it’s a big museum. Like butterflies dipped into chloroform pinned to the wall. This is music that is allowed to change. That is in the music’s nature.”
Lekman fortæller om historien bag disse albums og deres nye genudgivelser i to afsnit af Secretly Canadians ’Secretly Society Podcast’. Lyt til første episode om The Cherry Trees.. her.
Episode to, der fokuserer på The Linden Trees…, udkommer d. 4. maj.
The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom Tracklist:
1. November 27, 2002
2. At The Dept. Of Forgotten Songs
3. Maple Leaves
4. Sky Phenomenon
5. Pocketful Of Money
6. Black Cab
7. Someone To Share My Life With
8. December 19, 2002
9. Rocky Dennis’ Farewell Song To The Blind Girl
10. Rocky Dennis In Heaven
11. Jens Lekman’s Farewell Song To Rocky Dennis
12. Julie (RMX)
13. April 23, 2003
14. I Saw Her In The Anti - War Demonstration
15. A Sweet Summer’s Night On Hammer Hill
16. A Man Walks Into A Bar
17. Another Sweet Summer’s Night On Hammer Hill
18. F - Word
19. The Wrong Hands
20. Eureka
21. The Cherry Trees Are Still In Blossom
22. Black Cab (Acoustic)
The Linden Trees Are Still in BlossomTracklist:
1. And I Remember Every Kiss
2. Sipping On The Sweet Nectar
3. The Opposite Of Hallelujah
4. A Postcard To Nina
5. Into Eternity
6. I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
7. If I Could Cry (it Would Feel Like This)
8. Your Arms Around Me
9. Shirin
10. It Was A Strange Time In My Life
11. Kanske Är Jag Kär I Dig
12. Friday Night At The Drive - In Bingo
13. Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death
14. Our Last Swim In The Ocean
15. A Little Lost
16. Radio NRJ
17. The Linden Trees Are Still In Blossom
18. When I’m Swimming