Black Swedes Back, and then gone again.

The Swedes can't seem to stay in motion for more than 6 good months at a time. After the release of Tempest, Matt and I played a solid 6 months before our restlessness caught up with us. After adding a rhythm section around the time we finished the Things I Tried to Forget EP the band went at it for another 6 months.

Then as we began to wrap up a few new recordings for a second EP, changes put us back in a holding pattern. Enter John Wooster. The Swedes then put out a Catching up with... box set on Sink Hole Records and began to play with an assortment of talented drummers. We even made our way down to Texas for a fall tour, but as always the 6 month curse caught back up.

So the swedes are once again looking inside and at each other, searching for the next few songs. We are best when we are writing. I sometimes think that our interest in music rest solely on our love to write and record.

If you don't have Catching up yet, I recommend you get yourself a copy. It is not a bad set of 20 plus songs.

New songs are a coming soon. Shows on the other hand will have to wait.

Ian

Free single: "Glow"

The Black Swedes have just released their newest single: "Glow"

If you post it on your facebook page, you can download it for free today!!

Check it out here.

Back in the studio

Matt and I were back in the studio with Josh Evans trying to tie up the final loose ends on the four tracks we started last year. As of now, we are looking to release this group of songs sometime during late spring.

tentative tracks:

• God Can't Claim
• Call
• The Decline
• Horns

In the mean time, Black Swedes will be releasing a free ep in the coming weeks. This will be material that we recorded before the newest Swedes were found.

Look out for it!

Ian

Lake City Poets Record Out Now!

Over the last few years a amazing group of musicians led by Seattle-based poet Mark Swanson have been quietly working together as the Lake City Poets. This group includes Jeremy Enigk and William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real Estate), Terrance DH (Magstatic and the Stench), Tyler Jensen (the Limbs), Josh Myers (Producer; Rosie Thomas, Jeremy Enigk), and Greg Williamson (Producer; Sunny Day Real Estate and Bend). The group also includes Jens Nordal, Kaanan Tupper, Mark Servine, Chris Zoeger, Jeff Warmer, Dalton Brand, and myself.

The final product of the 14 artist's efforts is now out on Cydonia Records. Right now you can pick the record up at Left Hand Books at Pike Place Market (92 Pike St #B), $5.

So if you like a little spoken word now and then, do what needs to be done and pick up the record.

http://www.myspace.com/thelakecitypoets

Ian

T-Shirts are here!

Look for the Black Swedes store on the website next week.

T-Shirts Coming Soon

Stay tuned...

Sound Mag and iTunes

The beautiful people at Sound Magazine have found it desirable to put us in print this month. Alright!

When we first started playing as Black Swedes, Matt and I would could tell that we played a song well when at the end we both yawned. Not cause the songs bored us, but because they were as draining to play as they were peaceful to listen to. But I think Rachel Dovey's description in the review takes the cake. We are sad bastards, but not for much longer.

iTunes has begun to roll out the new singles of our spring catalog. If pink can be the new black, up beat can be the new sad. We teamed up with the best minds in Seattle to get these song recorded. Its funny though, those best minds now live in Japan, Portland, and LA.....what do the best minds know that I don't. Maybe they can sense the Mayor's impending re-election on the horizon. Do we really need another trolley?! Well at any rate, I hope you enjoy them.

So yes! Your day is all planned out for you. Pick up this month's Sound Magazine and a bottle of wine. Then journey to iTunes, buy any of the 4 singles up and of course the new Raphael Saadiq record.

You can now spend the day reading about how Dave Krusen kind of blew it with the right sadness in the back ground. And just when you think you are getting to close to the tears put on Saadiq and read about the Croc reopening!

Enjoy your day and your welcome,

Ian