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''Visor från vinden'' (Songs from the loft) is the Swedish singer Sofia Karlsson's third studio album as a solo artist. The album was released on 11 April 2007 by
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. The album is a collection of songs written by poets and musicians from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the Swedish
Dan Andersson Dan Andersson (6 April 1888 in Ludvika – 16 September 1920 in Stockholm)Dan Andersson
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, Marianne Flodin,
Mikael Wiehe Mikael Christian Wiehe (born 10 April 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was also one of the most important people in the progg movemen ...
, Alf Hambe,
Carl Michael Bellman Carl Michael Bellman (; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well ...
,
Peps Persson Per-Åke Tommy Persson (20 December 1946 – 27 June 2021), known by the stage name Peps Persson, was a Swedish blues and reggae musician and social critic from Tjörnarp, Scania. Throughout his career he mostly made music in Swedish and was we ...
, and
Evert Taube Axel Evert Taube (; 12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th ce ...
. The album contains two poems from
Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...
, and a version of
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's antiwar song " Le Déserteur", all three originally French. Two of the songs are translations of Norwegian folk songs. ''Visor från vinden'' was recorded at six different times in different places in Sweden and
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. The producers were Göran Petersson, Sofia Karlsson and Jan Borges, and among the participating musicians were Esbjörn Hazelius, Roger Tallroth and
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. The album had a mixed to positive reception, with reviewers commenting on the quality of the performances of traditional songs, interpreted plainly but personally. ''Visor från vinden'' reached second place on the Swedish album chart, Karlsson's highest placement. In 2008, she received a Swedish
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, a
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in the category "Best Foreign Album", and the Prize in the folk music category.


Background

''Visor från vinden'' followed Karlsson's 2005 hit '' Svarta ballader'' (Black Ballads, from a 1917 book of poems by the Swedish proletarian school author
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) which sold 60,000 copies. Karlsson said that after ''Svarta ballader'' she had not planned to make a new album for five years. During the tour that followed the album she and her band began to incorporate more and more songs in the repertoire, so many that she finally had enough for a new album. The songs Karlsson chose to include were among her band's favourites that they had been playing on the tour bus.


Production

''Visor från vinden'' was recorded on six different occasions. "Balladen om briggen "Blue Bird" av Hull" and "Två tungor" were recorded live at Tønder Gymnasium in
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, Denmark on 28 August 2006. Jan Borges was producer and Torben Laursen the recording engineer. The songs were recorded for Radio Denmark. The second session was in September 2006, for "Milrök", at Toftaholms manor. The song was recorded by Mats Andersson. The third recording session was in December 2006 and January 2007 in Atlantis Studio, recording "Le Vin Des Amants", "Frukostrast på en liten syfabrik på landet", "Flickan och kråkan", "Spelar för livet", "Jag står här på ett torg", "Resan till Österlandet", "Märk hur vår skugga" and "Moesta et Errabunda". The songs were recorded by Janne Hansson. The fourth and fifth sessions took place in February 2007. "Näckaspel" and "Jag längtar" were recorded by Esbjörn Hazelius in Niglahol Studios, and "Valsen till mig" in Studio Atlantis by Olle Linder. The sixth and last session was in March 2007, for "Hemlängtan", recorded by Olle Linder at Studio Epidemin. The album was mixed in three months in three different places: in the Atlantis studio 1 and 2 by Janne Hansson, Mikael Herrström, Pontus Olsson, Göran Peterson, Sofia Karlsson and Esbjörn Hazelius; in Fantasifoster Studios by Olle Linder; and in CPR Recording by Claes Persson, who also mastered the album.


Tracks

The album begins and ends (apart from the bonus track "Andra sidan") with poems translated from the French
Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...
. One other track is also a translation of a French song:
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's antiwar ballad " Le Déserteur". Most of the rest are Swedish songs, though two are translated from Norwegian. The album is a mix of poems and songs from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. File:Étienne Carjat, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, circa 1862.jpg,
Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited ...
wrote "Le Vin des Amants" and "Moesta et Errabunda" in 1857. File:Ernst Josephson-Näcken.jpg, "Näckaspel" refers to the Nixie or water spirit, here painted by Ernst Josephson, 1882. File:Evert Taube 1961.JPG,
Evert Taube Axel Evert Taube (; 12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th ce ...
wrote "'Blue Bird' av Hull" in 1929. File:Boris Vian - WIKI retouched.jpg,
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wrote " Le Déserteur" in 1954. File:Dan Andersson 1917.jpg,
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wrote the poem "Hemlängtan" in 1915. File:Carl Michael Bellman, portrayed by Per Krafft 1779.jpg,
Carl Michael Bellman Carl Michael Bellman (; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well ...
published "
Märk hur vår skugga Märk hur vår skugga (Mark how our shadow) is one of the best-known of the 1790 ''Fredman's Epistles'', where it is No. 81. These were written and performed by Carl Michael Bellman, the dominant figure in the Swedish song tradition. Its subject ...
" in 1790.


Musicians

* Nils Berg – bass clarinet * Henrik Cederblom – dobro * – cittern, violin, viola, guitar, bouzuki, voice * Sara Isaksson – voice, Wurlitzer * Sofia Karlsson – voice,
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, harmonium, flute, piccolo, bouzouki * Olle Linder – contrabass, percussion, voice * Sofie Livebrant – piano * Peter Lysell – contrabass * Lisa Rydberg – violin * Roger Tallroth – tenor guitar, guitar, voice *
Lena Willemark Lena Willemark (born 12 May 1960) is a Swedish traditional music fiddler, singer, and composer, who combines elements of folk and jazz. Born in Älvdalen, Dalarna, Willemark grew up with the region's folk music. In Stockholm in the 1970s, she al ...
– voice


Reception

''Visor från vinden'' had a mixed to positive reception, with an average score of 3.4/5 on review aggregator Kritiker.se, based on fifteen reviews. Among the more negative reviewers was '' Aftonbladet''s Jonna Sima. She called the music "traditional" and "stylish" but "dull in comparison with song interpreters like Cornelis Vreeswijk." '' Expressen'' reviewer Anders Dahlbom wrote that the album felt like a logical follow-on from the 2005 "Svarta Ballader". In his view, Karlsson gave new life to poems and songs by Dan Andersson, Wiehe, Peps, Taube, and others. He found Karlsson's "detailed traditional folk sounds strangely timeless", predicting it would be a success. Among the more positive reviewers was '' Dagens Industri''s Jan Gradvall. He commented that Karlsson had "honed her artistry to perfection", and compared her to the 1960s troubadours
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and Cornelis Vreeswijk. '' Norran'' reviewer Olle Lundqvist felt that she was "one of the new millennium's musical exclamation marks", and predicted that audiences would continue to be excited by Karlsson's work. In his view, the singing and the interpretations of the songs were "straight, yet personal". He found "nothing ingratiating, but plenty of individuality and integrity. This is song with style and soul." ''
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'' reviewer Per-Roger Carlsson wrote that the album was more varied than ''Svarta ballader'', but that Karlsson "lives on her expression and is firmly rooted in song. No experiment and improvisation, but with song tradition as her fixed point." He called the album "Fine vocal art from a great vocal artist." '' Svenska Dagbladet''s reviewer Ingrid Strömdahl noted the choice of two poems by Baudelaire, in particular as translated by Dan Andersson, and their settings by Sofie Livebrant. She found the version of Taube's brig ''Bluebird'' "heart-stopping". She noted that the songs were diverse, from Bellman to Wiehe, but felt that they were sung "sensitively and with lovely ornamentation to the varied orchestration." ''
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'' found the performances "absolutely perfect", commenting that "the piano and the wind instruments are unbalanced so that it is not only beautiful, but a touch bitter, too."


Awards

''Visor från vinden'' has won several prizes. In 2008, Karlsson received the Swedish
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in the category "folk music/song", and the
Danish Music Award The Danish Music Awards (DMA) is a Danish award show. The show has been arranged by IFPI since 1989, and was originally called ''IFPI-prisen'' ("IFPI-Award") until 1991, when it changed its name to ''Dansk Grammy'' ("Danish Grammy"). It was chang ...
in the category "Best foreign albums". In the the same year, ''Visor från vinden'' won the prize in the category "Folk music/song". The jury called it a "folk song so intensely present that everything seems born in the moment" with "a musicality both rooted in folk music tradition and timelessly modern."


Charts

''Visor från vinden'' reached second on the Swedish album chart, Karlsson's best list placement, shared by her 2014 album '. The album stayed in the chart for 37 weeks (April 2007-March 2008).


References

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