Nutid - Adrienne (video)

PSL has the premiere of Nutid's new video "Adrienne": http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/06/18/premiar-nutid-adrienne/

Nutid album preview

The new Nutid album "Cityflowers" is streaming in full at The Fader: http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/01/stream-nutids-album-cityflowers/

New Nutid album confirmed

Swedish instrumental duo Nutid (Åsa Jacobsson + Alf Håkan Åkesson) have announced that their sophomore album "Cityflowers" will be out on May 30.

The return of Nutid

Nutid, the excellent instrumental duo of Åsa Jacobsson and Alf Håkan Åkesson, will be releasing a new album this coming spring. Check out their new website: http://www.nutid.info/

Musik med Nutid

Live music with instrumental duo Nutid (aka Alf Håkan Åkesson + Åsa Jacobsson) at PSL: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/11/02/musik-med-nutid/

Nutid - Målarna (video)

Swedish instrumental duo Nutid (feat. Åsa Jacobsson and Alf Håkan Åkesson) have a new video for the track "Målarna": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfHn9ymzbCk&fmt=18

Sirius playlist week #27

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. TALK 1
02. Entombed - Kick out the jams
03. Ironville - The wild
04. Florence Valentin - 8 & 5
05. TALK 2
06. Sweatmaster - Calling Satan, let me in
07. Viola - Shimmery summery (sha-la-la love)
08. Marit Bergman - Thoughts grow darker in the night
09. Nutid - Bodensia
10. TALK 3
11. The Bear Quartet - Millions
12. Enter the Hunt - Fighters
13. The Sods - Irene the doorbell
14. Lacrosse - It's always Sunday around here
15. TALK 4
16. Mattias Alkberg - Jag är en antenn
17. Pintandwefall - Angus
18. Anna Maria Espinosa - Glowing with you
19. Arvid - Kan inte hålla dig kvar
20. Kristofer Åström - Come out
21. TALK 5
22. Björn Kleinhenz - Krokås

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

MP3: Nutid - Pianoflikkan

Nutid is the duo of Åsa Jacobsson and Alf Håkan Åkesson and together they make beautiful instrumental music. Which is odd in a way because Åsa is well-known as Marit Bergman's favorite songwriting collaborator and she has also worked with quite a few other Stockholm-based pop projects (Consequences, Peter Bjorn and John, etc.). Alf is no slouch either, he's released a few well-received folksy singer/songwriter albums under his first name. So for the two of them to come together to do something completely different is a surprise; unexpected but welcome. "Pianoflikkan" is one of the longer tracks on the record (they typically average out to 2:30-3:00, owing very much to the duo's pop-oriented roots) and is quite reminiscent of classic Swedish progg. The melodies are very Jan Johansson in their elegant melancholy, especially when the piano takes the lead, but the piece wouldn't sound out of place on a Björn Olsson album either. The cinematic and the pastoral, together as one; a bit of twang and timpani. Spring has finally arrived and the flowers are slowing opening just like the smiles on people's faces as they enjoy a bit of hard-earned sunshine. This is the soundtrack for such a morning.

Nutid - Pianoflikkan

Sirius playlist week #15

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. Lowood - It's a mess (feat. Kristofer Åström)
02. TALK 1
03. Murmansk - Sweet trio
04. Øresund Space Collective - My heel has a beard
05. Nutid - Pianoflikkan
06. TALK 2
07. Montt Mardié - Bang, bang (Echo in Warsaw)
08. Rupesh Cartel - Oh no oh no!
09. Bellman - Sleep forever
10. Pixie Carnation - Little sister
11. TALK 3
12. Fever Ray - Concrete walls
13. Jesper Norda - We have the guts
14. Bad Hands - Bad hands (feat. Nina Kinert)
15. TALK 4
16. Turboweekend - Up with the smoke - Down with the ash

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

New label: Too Many Notes

Too Many Notes is a new Swedish label home to Nutid and Alf: http://www.toomanynotes.se/
Look for Nutid's debut album in March.

PSL reports that Åsa Jacobsson (Marit Bergman) and Alf are collaborating on a project called Nutid: http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2008/11/12/asa-alf-nutid/
Listen here: http://www.myspace.com/nutid