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photo from Hasse’s facebookMidsummer Prog in Valkenburg is now history and it’s time to reload and change our mindsets before our show at Parksnäckan in Uppsala. This will be a one off gig together with the legendary Nazareth on Friday the 12th of July in our own backyard (so to speak). The set will be different from the one last weekend, so once again it’s just to get up there “on the barricades”...
I’m pleased to say that ‘Eternal Snapshots’ is selling more and faster than our previous albums according to our record label. Not only that, it’s doing better than before on streaming platforms and on downloads. This is of course great before our coming shows, which will all be different from each other with different setlists. We’re looking forward to seeing you at:29/6 Midsummer Prog, Valkenbur...
from Hasse's facebookIt’s been two years since we last were on stage together and we have according to me some high profile shows coming up, so what to do? Well we arranged a production rehearsal combined with a secret gig in front of a small crowd of invited family and friends. We don’t know the result of yesterday’s effort yet but it sure felt good and it looks to me that we managed to convince ...
Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion 6thアルバム「Eternal Snapshots」発売中です。https://hfmc.bandcamp.com国内通販はDisc Unionあります。https://diskunion.net/progre/ct/detail/1008837837...
Kjelle said it when we rehearsed the previous weekend. The
取り急ぎ。HFMCの新作「Eternal Snapshots」から、PV第一弾がリリースされました。今作はコンセプトアルバムですが、その中でもキャッチーでそこそこ短い曲が選ばれたようです。
Heard a week ago that Sweden is the country with the most worldwide hits per capita in the world. Ain’t that something! I mean it makes me both happy and proud but I can’t take any credit for it. Hmmm maybe I chose the wrong genre for that. For as long as I can remember I’ve been more fascinated by let’s say ’White Man’ than ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ by Queen, or ‘Siberian Khatru’ than ‘Owner O...
I don't want to be in Sampos shoes right now. He's editing the first video out of our new album 'Eternal Snapshots'. The song is called 'Once In A Lifetime' and the premiere will be next week. He's been busy rehearsing HFMC lately and now he's preparing for a short run in Europe with the Australian band Toehider, all at once more or less! So please join me and wish Sampo and the guys in Toehider t...
My Kinda Girl (single) 1984Forty year anniversary.Can you believe it, I've been releasing records for forty years, this very year 2024. I can hardly believe it myself. Have I learnt something? Yes but the funny thing is that the learning curve seems to have taken the opposite direction. When we released the Spellbound debut album 'Breaking The Spell' in 1984 I knew everything. I literally thought ...
Stronger than evil.One would think one disaster per recording would be enough but apparently not. Kjell all of a sudden disappeared from the radar after Antons surgery. Kjell had recorded some
Nothing wears a good man down.HFMC guitarist extraordinaire Anton Lindsjö has had this problem for quite a while and by the time we started to record our coming opus 'Eternal Snapshots' he was using 12 litres of dialysis/day. My car was full of boxes of this liquid when we left for Nevo Studios in Sundsvall and the four day session to cut the backing tracks. For me it was right there and then I un...
Eternal Snapshots - the concept
To put things straight. This was no old dream of mine or anything. I just wanted to force myself to write lyrics in a new way and I wanted to stay away from subjects I normally write about. I can also confess I chose the easy way out, as we do not get to follow these people from birth to the end of their days. Before I continue I want to tell you the following. People loaded with money always says...
先にMidsummer Prog Festの情報が出ましたが、もう一つノルウェーでのフェスへの参加が決まりました。まとめます。Midsummer Prog Festival(Valkenburg, THE NETHERLANDS)https://midsummerprog.com6月28日Steve Rothery Band / Arena / Kristffer Gildenlöw / Theraphosa6月29日Karnivool / Plini / Temic / HFMC / Isolde Lasoen / Haunt The Woods6月30日Motorpsycho / Lesoirほとんど売り切れ状態のようなので、お早めにお問い...
What a journey! This recording was something out of the ordinary, it really was. Major and life changing things happened to members of the band. There was a huge misunderstanding when it comes to the deadline, which created the mandatory panic when it was time to finish and close this recording but more of that the coming weeks. I'll also give you more information about the concept of the album, a...
タイトルはEternal Snapshots6月6日発売予定です。予約はここからhttps://hfmc.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-snapshots（以下HFMCのBandcampからのインフォ）1. All I Wanted To Be (pt 1)2. Deserve To Be Happy3. Wherever You May Go4. No Messiah5. Once In A Lifetime6. Only For Me7. The Yard8. Searching For The Dark9. A Sorrowful Mariner10. Blind Dog11. All I Wanted To Be (pt 2)2024 marks the forty-year annivers...
from Hasse's facebookJust woke up on American soil here in Miami, feeling a little worn out thanks to the travelling day yesterday and the time difference of course. One of the pics pretty much reflects how I feel right now. The other photo tells you that the other band I’m playing in namely HFMC, is now confirmed for this years lineup of Midsummer Prog Festival in Valkenburg (NL) on June 29. This...
左から2番目がKjell Haraldsson少し前のニュースなのですが、HFMCのキーボーディスト、Kjell Haraldssonのニュースです。2024年1月24日（本文）LIFE: Chapter 2. Some of you may know that I’ve been struggling with illness for a while. I had surgery last week and everything went very well. I’m beyond words of gratitude. どうも病に伏せっていたようです。某筋から聞いた話によると、去年暮れから具合が悪かったらし...
こんにちは。初場所は照ノ富士の優勝で締めくくり、琴ノ若が大関昇進を決めました。正直、今場所の照ノ富士には期待していませんでした。序盤は相手の腕をたぐって組まない相撲が多く、やはり膝や腰の状態が悪いのだろうと思っていました。勝ち越して、15日休まずに出場できたら上出来だろうと。ところが終盤はどうですか！霧島を吹っ飛ばし、イケイケな琴ノ若をねじ伏せました。横綱という地位の恐ろしさを見せつけられた気がしま...
Hasse Froberg's own musical companions
明けましておめでとうございます。今年ものんびりよろしくお願いします。珍しく大相撲初場所が終わる前に記事を投稿します（笑）。1月4日はHasse Fröbergの60才の誕生日でした。なんと還暦。誕生日当日にはスタジオで作業していて、盛大なお祝いはしなかったようです。還暦を祝う習慣は中国から来たようですが、西洋では50才の方が盛大に祝いような気がします。そもそも干支の概念がないもんね。1月5日（17:29）付のHasseの投稿：H...
Photo by Olga WalkiewiczSo that’s it then, the last gig of 2023 is now history. Home again after two adventurous days in Bydgoszcz. Cancelled flights, stomach flu, Roine seriously trying to convince me to play drums for the evening but also fun and nice things like having warm wine at the Christmas market and having lunch at a very cozy restaurant. A festival is always a festival but the gig went ...
Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion 5thアルバム「We Are The Truth」発売中！https://hfmc.bandcamp.com国内通販が良ければこちら：https://diskunion.net/progre/ct/detail/1008393640...
二つのエントリーをまとめます。TFKの欧州ツアーが終わった後、ヴォーカル録りが行われたようですね。11月3日 (HFMC's facebook)Back at it again after touring all of October with The Flower Kings. I’ve spent the last two days tracking background/harmony vocals for the upcoming HFMC album. To be honest, it’s about the thing I like the most when it comes to recording. It’s creative, challenging and fun. Fro...
10月27日 11:36 (Germany-The Netherlands)A venue we’ve never played before, a city I’ve never heard of and the whole entourage a little bit out of steam maybe. Yes we were struggling a little yesterday but I’d say we managed to keep it together. As a matter of fact I believe the versions of the first three songs were among the very best of the whole tour, so to be fair I’d say the show had its ups ...
10月20日 10:44 (UK)Having me a lie in this morning, waking up on British soil and all for the first time in a long while. Correct me if I’m wrong but the gig in Southampton yesterday felt like a success? I could actually feel the vibe in the room up on stage and the people I spoke to after the show was beyond enthusiastic. For being the first time in this very city and the club ‘The 1865’ I couldn...
こんにちは。Macやその周辺機器の片付けが終わって、10月に入ったら調子が良くなくて、まとめられませんでした。加齢です（ズバリ）。でも記録は残したいので記事をアップします。The Flower Kingsの欧州ツアーが10月4日から始まっています。これほど長いロードに出るのは「Banks of Eden」ツアー以来ではないかな。10月6日、10日と15日には、アコーディオン奏者のAliaksandr Yasinskiが参加しました。日程は以下の画像で。ところ...
10月14日 10:29 (Slovakian-Italy)Just started rolling again and according to the information I got it’s apparently saturday today. First of all I feel an urge to show my appreciation to the Slovakian crowd at Majestic Music Club in Bratislava for making the thursday evening (then) great. We’re right now on our way to Borgomanero in Italy for a show at Teatro Rosmini tonight. It’s been a while since...
10月に行われたThe Flower Kings欧州ツアー中に、Hasseがfacebookに書き落としていった文章を保存します（全部ではありません）。投稿日時は、各ページの最後の日にちに合わせています。（このページなら10月12日です）----------10月7日 09:50 (Poland)It is fun playing. It’s as simple as that. A big thank you to the audience at 2 Progi in Poznań for helping out making yesterday a really fine evening. I also want t...
こんにちは。長年使用していたPowerMac G4と外付けHHDがついに天寿を全ういたしまして、その処理に手間取っていました。自分の人生の半分近くを共に過ごしてきたマシンです。10年前から「いつ壊れてもおかしくない」と思いながら、こまめにバックアップを取って使ってきたので、データ的な損失はありません。このブログも違うマシンで更新しています。しかしながら、TFK来日嘆願署名サイトとか、Spellboundのファンサイト、TFKファ...
名古屋場所は面白かったですね。中盤までは錦木が、終盤に伯桜鵬が場所を引っかき回しました。個人的には北勝富士の健闘が嬉しかったです。新大関・霧島は身体が万全ではなく、さっそく角番になってしまいましたが、ライバルの豊昇龍が大関取りを達成！器用な子だけど、おじさんの朝青龍みたいな、立ち会いのスピードと威力がほしいところだなー。さて本題です(^^;)。前から言われていたとおり、9月にThe Flower Kingsの新譜「Look...
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HFMC bass player Sampo Axelsson is working on music of his own. The project is called Interwave and I’ve had the pleasure of tracking vocals for two songs. I recorded a video earlier this week where I share the lead vocal duties with the mastermind behind Toehider, the Australian artist Michael Mills. The music I’ve heard so far (six songs) is very well played with nice and rich arrangements, grea...
5月29日から始まり、6月15日に終わったThe Flower Kingsの欧州ツアーについて、Hasseがfacebookにアップしたテキストをアップしました。右のカテゴリ「Hasse’s Blog」から見ていただくと早いです。観に行った人からの情報では、5月30日のGöteborg公演ではこんな感じのセットリストでした。setlist.fmで調べると、他の公演でもあまり変わりはなかったようですが、6月13日のチェコ公演では、
6月16日 13:07 photo by Jonny TaxénSo it’s a wrap then. Just passed Munich on our way home and it feels a little empty and quiet on the bus now that the Americans and Mirko and Johnny is no longer onboard. At the same time it’s nice to be able to let your guard down since there’s no show this evening. I’m a happy man today since we managed to keep the spirit and perform well all the way up to the ...
6月15日 (Pratteln - Milan)photo by Jonny TaxénIt’s still the best sound on stage…period. No venue tops Z7. It’s like you’re in your own living room listening to some very familiar music when you’re up there, with the exception of that you’re playing of course. Thank you Z7 for once again delivering the goods in a way that’s just top notch. I didn’t wear the jacket yesterday. It was Mediterranean ...
6月14日 (Prague - Pratteln)And yes the balcony was full too. Palac Akropolis in Prague was packed with supportive fans yesterday that were singing along to the lyrics and showed us their love and appreciation in the best possible way. We had the accordion monster Aliaksandr Yasinski guesting us, so it was an emotional evening for both the audience and the musicians on stage. According to Aliaksand...
6月13日 (Wroclaw - Prague)photo by Jonny TaxénBefore and after (referring to the photos).I must once again state that the stage looked really cool with those organ pipes as a backdrop. It took only a hand clap out in the room yesterday to realise it will be a real challenge to get the sound together. I felt sorry for our sound engineer Varg, who didn’t stand a chance against the acoustics in the h...
6月12日 (Wroclaw)photo by Jonny TaxénIt’s not everyday you have a pipe organ as a back drop! Really cool. The Wroclaw Radio Hall is built first and foremost for classical music and symphony orchestras me thinks. In other words we need to be extra careful during soundcheck because the sound in the room has a reverb of its own. First things first. We played at Viften in Copenhagen (Denmark) yesterda...
6月11日 (Aschaffenburg - Copenhagen)TFK has played at ColosSaal in Aschaffenburg countless of times and yesterday tops them all. The tickets were over sold or how to put it (more than sold out), with the result that I could see people in the doorway into the venue digging to the music. I believe you guys were the loudest so far, or maybe it was because of the low ceiling? Never mind the vibe in th...
6月10日 (Groningen - Aschaffenburg)photo by Martien KoolenHad a day off in Groningen yesterday where Mike, Varg and me walked the city for ten hours with several pit stops in pubs, cocktail bars and restaurants. A great time we’re held by all of us. So we played at the venue Oosterpoort in Groningen the day before yesterday and once again we discovered a new and fabulously great place to play. I...
06/08 (Paris - Groningen)There are certain places or cities where you don’t want to make a fool of yourself and Paris is one of them. I mean where’s the logic? My general philosophy is that every show is equally important so how did it come to this? Well we all have our flaws don’t we. Le Trianon proved to be a lovely venue, where the backstage area included a big terrace, where you could have you...
06/07 (Tilburg - Paris)photo by Harold JansenJust had breakfast in a Paris covered with grey clouds. We’re back on the European continent since yesterday and our first stop was the amazing 013 in Tilburg (where we filmed the ’Instant Delivery’ DVD soon to be twenty years ago). I only have superlatives to say about the evening so I’ll stop here. In short it was great. The only downside was that I w...
06月6日 (Manchester - Tilburg)Thank you UK, or London and Manchester better said. Once again great and enthusiastic crowds and I can honestly say it’s always a pleasure to play for you guys. Not even the technical issues that seems to follow in our footsteps so far during this tour can bring this touring entourage down. The same goes for the heavy rainfall during load in in Manchester, which tour...
06/04 (London)So here we have the new boy band ”The Front Page Boys”. No seriously we’ve made a lot of covers this time and now we’re on the front of the Japanese magazine ’Euro Rock Press’. This is of course magnificent since it helps us spreading our music even more. Our travelling days are now over and this evening we’re playing in London, at Islington Assembly Hall. There’s always something. ...
06/02 (Manana)Manana. Since we’re in no hurry on our way to England, we spent a lovely afternoon in Dunkirk (among other things). We’re now back on the bus on our way to Calais, so let’s hope we have the paperwork in order. Right now it feels more like I’m on vacation than on tour but that is soon about to change. We’re playing at Islington Assembly Hall in London on Wednesday June 4, and at Acad...
5月31日 (Göteborg)ツアマネのJohnnyさん（左）とMickeWoke up in a sunny Gothenburg a couple of hours ago, had breakfast and now we’re chatting/working inside the bus before we leave for England later today. A premiere is always a premiere but I think our gig in Stockholm turned out a decent show. After a catastrophic start yesterday (technical problems), we managed to turn it around and at the end ...
5月29日 (Stockholm)So here’s where the scene of the crime will happen this evening, starting at 19:30. Welcome to Södra Teatern in Stockholm for an evening with Neal Morse and The Flower Kings....
The premiere of the tour at Södra Teatern in Stockholm is exactly one week away today. I'm still struggling a bit to get my vocal chords to cooperate with the notes I have in mind after all the coughing lately, but I'm confident they'll be in shape in time for the tour. I learnt during the latest TFK rehearsal sessions that Södra Teatern was Lalles father, the actor Egon Larssons second home. He p...
大の里が綱取りなるか？の五月場所の最中で気もそぞろです。そんなそぞろな記事です。The Flower Kingsの欧州ツアーを控えたHasse Fröberg、どうも風邪を引いたらしく、一時期声が出なくなったようです。回復してきているようですが、ライブに影響がないと良いですね。昨年11月2日に行われたHFMCのライブから、
5月2日にThe Flower Kingsのニューアルバム「Love」が発売されました。以前動画を一本紹介しましたが、それから新しいMVが2本アップされています。【Burning Both Edges】https://youtu.be/pLXwE9suCK8【We claim The Moon】https://youtu.be/U3rCfPj3J6k
Did you guys notice that we released our third video in the middle of the
photo from Hasse’s facebookMidsummer Prog in Valkenburg is now history and it’s time to reload and change our mindsets before our show at Parksnäckan in Uppsala. This will be a one off gig together with the legendary Nazareth on Friday the 12th of July in our own backyard (so to speak). The set will be different from the one last weekend, so once again it’s just to get up there “on the barricades”...
I’m pleased to say that ‘Eternal Snapshots’ is selling more and faster than our previous albums according to our record label. Not only that, it’s doing better than before on streaming platforms and on downloads. This is of course great before our coming shows, which will all be different from each other with different setlists. We’re looking forward to seeing you at:29/6 Midsummer Prog, Valkenbur...
from Hasse's facebookIt’s been two years since we last were on stage together and we have according to me some high profile shows coming up, so what to do? Well we arranged a production rehearsal combined with a secret gig in front of a small crowd of invited family and friends. We don’t know the result of yesterday’s effort yet but it sure felt good and it looks to me that we managed to convince ...
Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion 6thアルバム「Eternal Snapshots」発売中です。https://hfmc.bandcamp.com国内通販はDisc Unionあります。https://diskunion.net/progre/ct/detail/1008837837...
Kjelle said it when we rehearsed the previous weekend. The
取り急ぎ。HFMCの新作「Eternal Snapshots」から、PV第一弾がリリースされました。今作はコンセプトアルバムですが、その中でもキャッチーでそこそこ短い曲が選ばれたようです。
Heard a week ago that Sweden is the country with the most worldwide hits per capita in the world. Ain’t that something! I mean it makes me both happy and proud but I can’t take any credit for it. Hmmm maybe I chose the wrong genre for that. For as long as I can remember I’ve been more fascinated by let’s say ’White Man’ than ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ by Queen, or ‘Siberian Khatru’ than ‘Owner O...
I don't want to be in Sampos shoes right now. He's editing the first video out of our new album 'Eternal Snapshots'. The song is called 'Once In A Lifetime' and the premiere will be next week. He's been busy rehearsing HFMC lately and now he's preparing for a short run in Europe with the Australian band Toehider, all at once more or less! So please join me and wish Sampo and the guys in Toehider t...
My Kinda Girl (single) 1984Forty year anniversary.Can you believe it, I've been releasing records for forty years, this very year 2024. I can hardly believe it myself. Have I learnt something? Yes but the funny thing is that the learning curve seems to have taken the opposite direction. When we released the Spellbound debut album 'Breaking The Spell' in 1984 I knew everything. I literally thought ...
Stronger than evil.One would think one disaster per recording would be enough but apparently not. Kjell all of a sudden disappeared from the radar after Antons surgery. Kjell had recorded some
Nothing wears a good man down.HFMC guitarist extraordinaire Anton Lindsjö has had this problem for quite a while and by the time we started to record our coming opus 'Eternal Snapshots' he was using 12 litres of dialysis/day. My car was full of boxes of this liquid when we left for Nevo Studios in Sundsvall and the four day session to cut the backing tracks. For me it was right there and then I un...
To put things straight. This was no old dream of mine or anything. I just wanted to force myself to write lyrics in a new way and I wanted to stay away from subjects I normally write about. I can also confess I chose the easy way out, as we do not get to follow these people from birth to the end of their days. Before I continue I want to tell you the following. People loaded with money always says...
先にMidsummer Prog Festの情報が出ましたが、もう一つノルウェーでのフェスへの参加が決まりました。まとめます。Midsummer Prog Festival(Valkenburg, THE NETHERLANDS)https://midsummerprog.com6月28日Steve Rothery Band / Arena / Kristffer Gildenlöw / Theraphosa6月29日Karnivool / Plini / Temic / HFMC / Isolde Lasoen / Haunt The Woods6月30日Motorpsycho / Lesoirほとんど売り切れ状態のようなので、お早めにお問い...
What a journey! This recording was something out of the ordinary, it really was. Major and life changing things happened to members of the band. There was a huge misunderstanding when it comes to the deadline, which created the mandatory panic when it was time to finish and close this recording but more of that the coming weeks. I'll also give you more information about the concept of the album, a...
タイトルはEternal Snapshots6月6日発売予定です。予約はここからhttps://hfmc.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-snapshots（以下HFMCのBandcampからのインフォ）1. All I Wanted To Be (pt 1)2. Deserve To Be Happy3. Wherever You May Go4. No Messiah5. Once In A Lifetime6. Only For Me7. The Yard8. Searching For The Dark9. A Sorrowful Mariner10. Blind Dog11. All I Wanted To Be (pt 2)2024 marks the forty-year annivers...
from Hasse's facebookJust woke up on American soil here in Miami, feeling a little worn out thanks to the travelling day yesterday and the time difference of course. One of the pics pretty much reflects how I feel right now. The other photo tells you that the other band I’m playing in namely HFMC, is now confirmed for this years lineup of Midsummer Prog Festival in Valkenburg (NL) on June 29. This...
左から2番目がKjell Haraldsson少し前のニュースなのですが、HFMCのキーボーディスト、Kjell Haraldssonのニュースです。2024年1月24日（本文）LIFE: Chapter 2. Some of you may know that I’ve been struggling with illness for a while. I had surgery last week and everything went very well. I’m beyond words of gratitude. どうも病に伏せっていたようです。某筋から聞いた話によると、去年暮れから具合が悪かったらし...
こんにちは。初場所は照ノ富士の優勝で締めくくり、琴ノ若が大関昇進を決めました。正直、今場所の照ノ富士には期待していませんでした。序盤は相手の腕をたぐって組まない相撲が多く、やはり膝や腰の状態が悪いのだろうと思っていました。勝ち越して、15日休まずに出場できたら上出来だろうと。ところが終盤はどうですか！霧島を吹っ飛ばし、イケイケな琴ノ若をねじ伏せました。横綱という地位の恐ろしさを見せつけられた気がしま...
