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Två dagar om året

by Mårten Lärka

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Den vackra systern 03:27
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Fläkten satt i taket 01:22
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En dag om året 01:47
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Om man vill leva 01:24
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5.
Den sista skolan 02:19
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Vårvinter 02:40
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Bakom medaljen 01:48
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Bränt barn 01:50
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Sockerkakan 02:16
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Vi flyger över Bremen 03:34
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Den tomma rustningen 05:17
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Förr i världen 02:03
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”…enkelt färgrikt och omedelbart…”
Bo Bjelvehammar - Lira Musikmagasin

"...Jag blir löjligt förtjust i den frihet som här andas..."
Micheles Kind - Blaskans Vänner

"...Lite lagom galet… …skulle passa på en cirkus eller ett gammaldags tivoli ..."
Peter Thorsson - Skrutt Magazine

"…it’s one of the most outlandishly beautiful and avant-garde tributes…”
Walter Price - The Global Texan Chronicles

”…Lärka gör Dagerman rättvisa genom att göra honom till sin…”
Erik Bovin - Magasin Opulens

”…So viel Spielfreude besitzen nur wenige Alben…”
Daniel Dreßler - www.unter-ton.de

”…ÅRETS ALBUM…”
Jonas Bengt Svensson - jonasbengt.se


Twelve songs based on texts by the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). The full-length, which is Mårten Lärka's sixth album, is released on classic '12 vinyl and digital platforms.

On October 5th, 2023, Stig Dagerman would have turned 100 years old. On the same day, the single "En dag om året" ("One day a year") came out with a subsequent video.

"...a jaunty rock song at the hands of Lärka and his crew of merrymakers. Swirling Farfisa Foyer, 1960s backbeat and a word-for-lovely-word vocalizing of the poet's cherished words. Go on, sing along....”
-THE GLOBAL TEXAN CHRONICLES

If you wrote "Burnt child", "The Serpent", "German Autumn", "Island of the Doomed", "Night Games" and hundreds of daily newspaper texts. Yes, then you almost have yourself to blame. Suddenly, a wayward indie troubadour can come and make library rock out of everything.

The closing piece in "German Autumn" has become the krautish "Vi flyger över Bremen" ("We fly over Bremen"). Almost the entire first page from "Bränt barn" became the opening "Den vackra systern" ("The beautiful sister"). "Den tomma rustningen" ("The empty armour") is taken from the depiction of insanity "Island of the doomed" and has been boiled down to an incantation blues with Captain Beefheart ambitions. There are sugary songs, waltzes and punkish pop nerves as well.

The recording and mixing was done in the legendary Tambourine studios in Malmö by Joar Sylvan. To visually represent Dagerman's literary world, an eerily portrait-like Lärka has been flanked by an Archangel and The Death. Photos and make-up by Joakim Brolin and Petra Shara Stoor.

In the early 2000's, Mårten Lärka began his career in the visual genre, and then developed into an indie troubadour with French lyrics interspersed with Swedish, German and English. Setting Stig Dagerman's pulsating material to music feels like a natural step. Spread, waltz, poetic, punk, black, white, gray and pink.

Label: COMEDIA & M.OTION SONGS.
Distribution: The Orchard & Bengans.

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released November 17, 2023

Martin Hellquist: drums, flute, percussion, backing vocals
Lars Ohlsson: bass, backing vocals, piano, synthesizer
Mårten Lärka: vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion
Frida Bergström: backing vocals
Albin Johansson: keyboards

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Mårten Lärka Sweden

"MASTER OF THE UNCONVENTIONAL- Global Texan Chronicles

Mostly Swedish and french lyrics. Minimalistic music with the songs in the centre. Rock n roll or lullabies? Lyrics with humour and seriousness with modern society in focus.

Has attracted curious children, creative youngsters and cultured adults for more than two decades. ... more

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