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Röd
''Röd'' (Swedish language, Swedish for ''Red'') is the eighth studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent (band), Kent. It was released as Music download, digital download exclusively through the band's website on 5 November 2009 and Compact Disc, physically on 6 November 2009. The first single from the album, "Töntarna", was released as digital download on 5 October 2009. The song "Svarta linjer" was performed on the television talk show Skavlan on 30 October. ''Röd'' is available in a standard edition and a deluxe edition box. The deluxe edition box version features the 11-track Compact Disc, CD, a USB flash drive with high quality MP3 files as well as Audio Interchange File Format, AIFF files, three 10" Gramophone record, records which between them contain the whole album, and a 118-page book containing lyrics, abstract pictures and photographs. Due to distribution difficulties the deluxe edition was delayed until 11 November 2009. Background Lead singer Joakim Berg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent (band)
Kent was a Swedish alternative rock band formed in Eskilstuna in 1990. With members Joakim Berg, Martin Sköld, Sami Sirviö and Markus Mustonen, the band had numerous radio hits throughout Sweden and Scandinavia and consecutive number-one studio albums on the Sweden top list (Sverigetopplistan) beginning with the release of ''Verkligen'' (1996) and led by the single "Kräm (så nära får ingen gå)". With origins rooted in distorted Rock music, rock, they found mainstream success through their alternative rock albums of the mid-1990s, 2000s and 2010s, the latter decades during which they adopted elements of Synth-pop, synthpop. With eleven number-one albums, five number-one singles, 22 Grammis, Swedish Grammy Awards, and over three million record sales, Kent is considered the most popular rock/pop group within Sweden and throughout Scandinavia. ''Vapen & ammunition'' (2002) topped the Swedish charts for eight weeks. Kent is often compared to bands like U2 and Coldplay. As Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Plats I Solen (Kent Album)
''En plats i solen'' ( Swedish for ''A Place in the Sun'') is the ninth studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released on 30 June 2010, just eight months after the release of their previous album, ''Röd'', but was released exclusively as digital download on the band's website on 23 June. The album is produced primarily with Swedish producer Stefan Boman, who worked with the band on '' Du & jag döden'' from 2005. The lead single, "Gamla Ullevi" / "Skisser för sommaren", was released on 14 June 2010, the same day as the band announced the album details. Background The album was written and recorded in the early spring of 2010, and was finished on 8 June. Some of the songs are leftovers from the recording of ''Röd''. Lead singer Joakim Berg told ''Svenska Dagbladet'' that they wanted to record the songs "while they were still fresh". Critical reception Håkan Steen of ''Aftonbladet'' wrote: "If the album ''Röd'' was an unusually ambitious experiment with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box 1991–2008
''Box 1991–2008'' is a summary of Swedish alternative rock band Kent's career. The Box contains almost everything the group has ever recorded between 1991 and 2008. It contains every B-side, many demo recordings and every studio album. It also contains the first official live recording the group has ever made of a concert, a live recording of a new, previously unreleased song called "Håll ditt huvud högt" (''Hold your head high'') made during a concert in the band's hometown of Eskilstuna in July 2008. Content The Box contains every studio album the band has ever recorded, except for their English releases of '' Isola'' and ''Hagnesta Hill'' and their respective singles, and also every B-side released after 2000 (all pre-2000 B-sides were released on the compilation CD ''B-sidor 95–00'', which is also included in the box). It also include some demo recordings and four songs that were recorded pre-Kent. Two songs that were released when the band went under the name of Havs� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idioter
"Idioter" is a song by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released as the third and final single from the band's eight studio album, ''Röd'', digitally on 8 March 2010, and physically on 10 March. The single contains a single and a demo version of "Idioter", a remix of "Taxmannen" by Andreas Tilliander, and the song "Ensamheten" with remixes by Andrea Parker and Erase. "Idioter" peaked at number thirty-three in Sweden, the band's lowest chart position since " Halka", which peaked at number thirty-six in 1996. Track listing Charts References External linksIdioterat Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''T ... Kent (band) songs 2009 songs 2010 singles Song recordings produced by Joshua (record producer) Songs written by Joakim Berg Songs writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hjärta
"Hjärta" is a song by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released as the second single from the band's eighth studio album, ''Röd'', on 21 December 2009 as digital download. The single contains the album version of "Hjärta" including two additional remixes. Music video Kent made a music video for the song in collaboration with TV3's '' Efterlyst'', where at the end of the video information was shown about a number of people who had been missing for a long time. ''Dagens Media'' The music video was directed by Robinovich. The video shows a number of naked people lying outside in the cold, holding a red thread. Track listing Charts Weekly charts References External links |
Töntarna
"Töntarna" is a song by the Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released as the lead single from their eighth studio album, ''Röd'', on 5 October 2009. Two additional remixes by Punks Jump Up and Familjen were released on Kent's digital download store at their website on 9 October 2009, while a CD single was released on 12 October 2009. 8 October 2009 Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications References External links *Töntarna ' at |
Joshua (record Producer)
Joshua (born Jon Schumann in 1971) is a Danish and Swedish Grammy-awarded music producer and mixing engineer from Denmark. He has produced for bands such as Kent, Kashmir, Mew, D-A-D and Carpark North. Joshua produced the 1999 breakthrough album by the Danish rock band Kashmir, '' The Good Life'', which gave him the "Danish Producer of the Year" award at the 2000 Danish Grammy Awards. He produced the albums '' Tillbaka till samtiden'' and ''Röd'' by the Swedish alternative rock band Kent, released in 2007 and 2009, respectively. For the latter he was awarded "Producer of the Year" at the 2010 Swedish Grammy Awards. In the spring of 2010 he produced three tracks on the band's ninth studio album '' En plats i solen'', released on 30 June. He currently resides in London, UK. '' Selective production discography References External links Joshuaat Myspace Joshuaat Facebook Joshuaat Twitter Joshuaat Discogs Joshuaat WordPress WordPress (WP, or WordPress.org) is a web con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meistersaal
The Meistersaal is a historic concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Built in 1910 as a chamber music concert hall, the building today enjoys protected building status. It is located in Berlin-Mitte near Potsdamer Platz. Its major claim to fame stems from the times when it was ''Studio 2'' of Hansa Tonstudio. Since the 1990s, the Meistersaal has found use as a location for all manner of events. History 1910–1913: Foundation In 1910 the ''Real Estate Association of Berlin'' and its Suburbs – which later became the ''Guild of Maisons'' – bought the plot of land on the Köthener Straße 38, with the view to building there a head office for the association. After three years of construction the building was completed with offices for the association together with some solicitors' offices as well as a bookshop and was officially opened by the association’s chairman, Otto Heuer, in October 1913. Even in its early days many small meetings and concerts were held within its chamber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joakim Berg
Herbert Joakim "Jocke" Berg (born 16 March 1970) is a Swedish singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Kent. Biography Berg was born and grew up in Eskilstuna. He moved to Stockholm in 1993 after the founding of Kent, and has lived there since. Berg was the main songwriter, lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the band, which officially disbanded on 17 December 2016, according to the band's official web site. He is the older brother of director Adam Berg, who has directed several of Kent's music videos. Artistic collaboration and side projects Berg has written songs for Veronica Maggio, Lisa Miskovsky, Petra Marklund and Smith & Thell. Besides his role in Kent, he also had a side project called ''Paus'' with The Cardigans guitarist Peter Svensson. ''Paus'' released a self-titled album in 1998. In 2012, Petra Marklund (internationally known as ''September'') released a Swedish-language record in Sweden; Berg wrote the songs ''Händ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansa Tonstudio
Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. The studio, famous for its Meistersaal recording hall, is situated approximately 150 metres from the former Berlin Wall, giving rise to its former nicknames of "Hansa Studio by the Wall" or "Hansa by the Wall". Today, Hansa Studios' fully-restored Meistersaal is used for recording, as well as for concerts and other events. History In 1962 brothers Peter and Thomas Meisel of Edition Meisel & Co. founded Hansa Musik Produktion company and the Hansa Records label. The label's name (and the name of the related recording studio) was inspired by the Hanseatic League, a medieval Northern European maritime trade network. Beginning in 1965, Hansa rented Ariola Records' production facilities at the historic Meistersaal located within the building at Köthener Straße 38. The company built its own recording studio at its offices in 1969, before establishing ''Hansa Studio I'' on Nestorstrasse in Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tillbaka Till Samtiden
''Tillbaka till samtiden'' ( Swedish for ''Back to the Present'') is the seventh studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released on 17 October 2007 in Scandinavia through RCA Records and Sony BMG. The album is produced with Danish producer Joshua. The title means "Back to the Present", a pun on the Swedish translated title of ''Back to the Future'' (''Tillbaka till framtiden''). Background The band began recording ''Tillbaka till samtiden'' in November 2006 in Allaire Studios in New York City. In October 2006, just one month prior to the recording sessions rhythm guitarist Harri Mänty left the band which meant it was "more vulnerable when being one man less, but it has also glued us more together", according to guitarist Sami Sirviö. Musically, the band were influenced by electronic music artists such as Plastikman, Aphex Twin, and Anthony Rother. Sami Sirviö has said he was "tired of guitars" after recording the previous album, '' Du & jag döden'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
