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The Ark (EP)
''The Ark'' (sometimes referred to by the first track from the EP ''Racing with the Rabbits'') is the debut EP of the Swedish band the Ark. Track listing Personnel * Ola Svensson Ola Nils Håkan Svensson (born 23 February 1986) is a Swedish artist and songwriter, known professionally by the mononym Ola until 2014, and as Brother Leo from 2018 to present. Born in Lund, Skåne, his career began in 2005, when he finished ... - Vocals * Lars Ljungberg - Bass guitar * Mikael Jepson - Guitar * Martin Rosengardten - Drums Additional musicians: * Mats Andersson - Violin * Erik Persson - Violin * Tanja Nielsen - Cello * Britta Svedskog - Bassoon * Krister Miller - Clarinet It is also possible that Salo/Svensson played guitar for the EP due to him playing guitar at then-contemporary gigs (sometimes keyboards) but since there is no personnel list for this release (only for additional musicians) the contributions are merely speculation based on blogs made by the Ark themselves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ark (Swedish Band)
The Ark are a Swedish glam rock band formed in 1991 and remaining active until 2011. They released five studio albums and became one of the most successful bands in Scandinavia. They made their breakthrough with the song " It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" in 2000, and several hit songs followed. History Early years The Apocalyptic Era (1991–1996) The Ark was formed by Ola Salo (at the time named Svensson) in the small town of Rottne outside Växjö, Sweden in the summer of 1991. At the age of fourteen, during a family vacation to Ireland, he wrote a poem in six lines with the title ''The Ark'' and got the idea to form a new band from this concept''.''"And God told me to build an ark To gather the ones who wander in the dark" - first lines of the poem ''The Ark'' (1991)He formed the band with his friends Lars "Leari" Ljungberg, Mikael Jepson and Magnus Olsson, all of whom had previously been in the band ''Ashram,'' and they held their first band rehearsals in August 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Are The Ark
''We Are the Ark'' was released on 25 September 2000 and is the debut studio album from Swedish glam rock group The Ark. The album was both a critical and commercial success, spawning four singles. Track listing All songs were written by Ola Salo. #"Hey Modern Days" – 3:50 #"Echo Chamber" – 3:39 #"Joy Surrender" – 3:55 #"It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" – 4:10 #"Ain't Too Proud to Bow" – 3:31 #"Bottleneck Barbiturate" – 4:57 #"Let Your Body Decide" – 3:13 #"Patchouli" – 2:33 #"This Sad Bouquet" – 5:02 #"Angelheads" – 3:21 #"Laurel Wreath" – 3:44 #"You, Who Stole My Solitude" – 5:01 Personnel *Ola Salo – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, percussion * Martin Axén – rhythm guitar, backing vocals *Mikael Jepson – lead guitar *Leari Ljunberg – bass, backing vocals *Sylvester Schlegel – drums, backing vocals Singles *"Let Your Body Decide" (twice) *"It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane "It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" is a song performed by the Ark on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola Salo
Ola Salo (born Rolf Ola Anders Svensson; 19 February 1977) is a Swedish rock musician, and the lead vocalist of Swedish glam rock band The Ark. Early life He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Ark. Career Salo and the other members of the band had an international breakthrough in 2000 with the album We Are The Ark, containing the signature song " It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" (for which Ola won a Grammis for "Song of the Year"), a song Salo wrote after watching the Danish film ''Idioterne'' (The Idiots). In October 2006 during a party celebrating the new Swedish embassy in Washington, D.C., The Ark was performing on stage. As a plane was flying very low overhead Salo said "In this country, you don't know where those planes are headed. Well, this one seems to be heading in the right direction anyway..." meaning the airport, but then suddenly adding "...t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Ljungberg
Lars "Leari" Ljungberg, (born 6 March 1977 in Huddinge, Sweden) is a Swedish musician and bass player of the alternative rock/glam rock band The Ark. He started out as a studio and touring musician for artists such as soul singer Titiyo. In 1999 he went on an 8-month tour with the Cardigans due to Magnus Sveningsson, Cardigans regular bass player being injured. In autumn and winter 08/09 Leari was employed as a bassist in the rock opera ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' at the Malmö opera. He is also a member of The Ark side-project, the disco/glam rock crossover band ''Stereo Explosion''. Personal life Ljungberg was born just outside Stockholm, Sweden and grew up in Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Växjö, Sweden. His mother is Egyptian of Beja/Nubian Nubian may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Nubia, a region along the Nile river in Southern Egypt and northern Sudan. *Nubian people *Nubian languages *Anglo-Nubian goat, a breed of goat * Nubian ibex * , several ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Debut EPs
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 300 400 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
