Satellites by EASY
- imported from Sweden by Listening-Post Music
EASY:
Johan Holmlund - Sång
Rikard Jormin - Bas
Anders Petersson - Gitarr
Per Sjörs - Keyboards
Fredrik Lindson - Gitarr
Pop-Lars - Trummor
Discography:
Magic Seed –1990 (Blast First)
Sun Years-1994 (Snap)
Green Lights-1998 (Dolores/Virgin)
Kiss Kiss – (singel) 2001 (A West Side Fabrication)
Satellites – release 17 Sept 2001
In the fall of 1989 Swedish press started writing about a band called
TV POP CRISIS who got signed to Blast First. A completely unknown band
from the small town of Jönköping (which also is the hometown
of Cardigans) on the same label as bands like Donic Youth, Dinosaur JR
and Sun Ra. TV POP CRISIS decided to change their name, and after a listener
competition i swedish national radio station P3 they were now answering
to the name EASY. They released their debut single Castle Train/Cloud
Chamber in late summer 1990 but even before it got released EASY was the
subject of a big hype ran by magazines such as NME as well as all imprtant
swedish press.
The LP Magic Seed followed and EASY was on everyones lips and singles
like Horoscope even made it to the charts, EASY played a lot of festivals
that year and last year, some ten years later, their show at swedish Hultsfredfestivalen
was named a classic by swedish magazine Pop (the most influential swedish
muscpaper to this date). Later during the year when EASY had started to
work on the follow-up luck turned against them. Rough Trade, who distributed
Blast First, went out of business and after they got bored of all the
waiting EASY decided to leave Blast First. The second album Sun Years
saw daylight 1994, when EASY got signed to SNAP, a sublabel of swedish
classic MNW, and recieved rave reviews. The singles Never Seen A Star
and Listen To The Bells had heavy rotation on swedish radio but the Blast
First thing kinda took the spark out of the band and they decided to call
it quits.
The singer, Johan Holmlund, had started to take interest in electronic
music and together with Quant who've hade some fine releases on the highly
acclaimed label Dot. After a while two members from EASY joined, Anders
Petersson and Rikard Jormin. Guitarist Fredrik Lindson and keyboardplayer
Per Sjörs also joined the forces and they started to perform liveshows
under the name FLY. The got signed to Dolores/Virgin, recorded an album,
Green Lights, and the first single Bad Karma Sky got mentioned song of
the year in sedish magazine Nöjesguiden. Then again luck turned against
them. It seems to be both labels and artists called FLY so they decided
to go back to EASY. But all this name-changing-stuff and Green Lights
isn't properly promoted by the label.
But EASY continues to write material and in 2001 a cassette reaches Joakim
Wallström, A&R at A West Side Fabrication, who've had some swedish
stand out releases from bands such as The Wannadies and Sahara Hotnights
among others. He offers EASY a deal and once again they're back in biz.
During the spring the single Kiss Kiss is released and that's proof enough
that EASY is still very much to count on.
They've recorded and produced the album themselfs along with a couple
of friends such as Pop-Lars, C. Silver and Björn Olsson. And it's
time to start writing a new chapter in the career of EASY.
Price - $17.00 |