N E W S

2006-08-23
Shows updated.
New free mp3-ep here.
Brother-interview (in german) here.

2006-07-17
Sorry for the lack of updates. I've started working a full time job...

Anyway... We had a great time at this years third tour. I even believe that it was our best and most fun tour so far.

At the moment I've just finished the recordings of a new mini-album that will be titled "The Grey Rainbow". It will include 7 new songs and be released in October by Riptide Recordings and Stereo Test Kit. I believe it's easily my best work so far.

I'm also working on a brand new homepage. It will hopefully be up and running in a couple of weeks from now.

Love,
Martin.

2006-05-15
We're home from the second part of the tour. We had a great time. Soon we'll put up pics and videos on the site.

There are also three upcoming tours. One in June (Austria and Germany), one in September (United Kingdom) and one in October + November (all around Europe w/ the US-band Hanalei). Dates coming soon.

The guestbook has been removed because of all the annoying spam. If anyone knows how to fix this problem, please send me an e-mail: boyomega(a)gmail.com. Thanks.

2006-04-13
Discography-page updated with six new releases. Glasgow-show moved (see left).

2006-04-11
Hola! So we're back from the first round of the tour. We had a really nice time. Thanks to everyone who came to our shows and to the people who booked and arranged them! Also a special thanks to our new friend Gethin Pearson. Can I have a glass of pint please? ;)
Here are some photos from the tour.

"The Black Tango" has been receiving some great reviews, and it was chosen "Album of the week" at Radio FM4 (which we've been told is the most popular radiobroadcast in Austria and southern Germany). The song "Somewhere I'm human" is also at no 13 at their list of "most played songs".

The Black Tango, hits the UK on April 17th. In advance of the album (and our upcoming tour), Stereo Test Kit has just released a free online-single w/ artwork for your downloading pleasure. It features two album and one non-album track. Go get it here.

Here you can read some interviews:
Blueprint (In german)
Slightly Confusing To A Stranger (In english)
Bubblehouse (In german)

I'll end this with an important tip for you all. Go here and download and listen to the amazing 6-song-ep "Footnotes to the spell of daylight-saving time" by my great brother The Book of Daniel. I play the bass and sing some backing vocals on those songs. Karin, Linnéa and Per-Ola also play on it. Go go go!

See you on the road!

/Martin.

2006-02-28
Hello dear friends! As you can see to your left, there's a whole lot of shows coming up soon. I'm really looking forward to go on tour again. This time we will travel as a five-piece-orchestra. I will bring my good friends Per-Ola Eriksson (Piano, Keyboard, Guitar, Backing Vocals), Karin Wiberg (Violin, Melodica, Glockenspiel), Andreas Lassus (Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Backing Vocals) and Björn Kleinhenz (Bass, Guitar, Melodica, Keyboard, Backing Vocals).
As for new releases, there's also a bunch of stuff coming up.
1:The forthcoming fullength-album "The Black Tango"

that has been graced with some different release-dates around the globe.
Germany (Riptide Recordings) = 17/3
USA (The Slight Record) = 17/3
United Kingdom (Stereo Test Kit) = 3/4
Sweden (Villa Recordings) = 3/4

Ni som bor i Sverige kan förhandsboka ett ex av tangon genom att skicka ett e-mail med ert namn och adress till villarec@gmail.com. Priset kommer vara 100:-inkl porto.
2: A single featuring "By midnight we'll give it a go" (as title track), "If only" and a new song called "From us to eternity". It will be released by my UK-label Stereo Test Kit. Here's the coverart. My friend Andreas Öhman shot the picture. I drew the lines.

3:"From us to eternity" will also appear on a compilation to be released by the Mexican netlabel Poni Republic.

Then there's no less than three releases on the US-label Tract Records...

4:The split "If we were oceans"
w/ Kristofer Åström, Racinpaperplanes and Two Time The Trauma. We ended up recording four songs for that one. They are:
1. Fool Around (Band version)
2. For I Cannot Breathe
3. From Us To Eternity
4. We Might Not Be Real (2006 version)

5:The compilation "ENGAÑO",
featuring my cover of The Strugglers' song "The Rejection Letter".

6:And the single-disc-reissue of the Will Oldham-tribute "I am a cold rock. I am dull grass"

where we appear with the song "A sucker's evening". New artists contributing on the reissue are Mark Kozelek, Jolie Holland, Unbunny, Court And Spark, Elephant Micah and Viking Moses.

7: A strictly limited tour-cd titled "A Distant Foghorn" featuring some "rare songs" (b-sides, covers, outtakes et al).

8:New merch (t-shirts, pins and posters) designed by me and my friend Tobias Stilz.

9:An amazing animated video for the song "Explode" made by my friend Oskar Gullstrand.

What else? I've joined MySpace. You'll find me here. Feel free to drop me a line or 95789372816321.

And to wrap things up... Here's a picture of my grandma and grandpa Alice and Sune. They've been married for 60 years now. I think that's very touching and beautiful, don't you?

Hooray!

Until next time. Be friends.

Love,
Martin.

2006-01-14
So... The big holidays are over. A new year is here. They call it 2006. I must say it hasn't been too friendly with me these first two weeks, but I think we can manage to get along. Ta i trä.

It's Friday. I guess most of my friends are out somewhere, but I decided to stay at home with some hot coffee and cigarettes for company... Listen to some power ballads, think some, read some, write some and have a bag of that good ol' Japanmix. I also took some time to update the Villa Recordings-homepage and finish the list of my favorite records from 2005. Turned out a pretty huge monster. Iron teeth with an eye for the sharp summer breeze. Yada yada yada...

I've also added a german compilation/promo-sampler to the discography page.

Oh, and here's a picture of a very interesting and strange bird (The "Abu Markub") that was recently brought to my attention by my dear friend Andreas. In Sweden it's called "Träskonäbben". More info here.

Sleep tight, Princess.

/Martin.