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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...
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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
from Hasse's facebookHere we have the
季節の変わり目、いかがお過ごしでしょうか。容赦ない花粉の攻撃を華麗に避けながら、衣替えとかエアコンの掃除など、一時的に家事の量が激増する時期ですね。いまさらながら、うっかり忘れていたイベントについてアップします。4月22日、Uppsala図書館 Fyriskällan支所で、Hasse Fröbergのトークイベント（？）が開催されました。10代の頃から今までの音楽活動について話をしたようです、多分。主催のFyriskällanは、地元の歴史情...
英国のプログレ専門誌「Prog」が、The Flower Kingsの限定号を出版するようです。TFKが表紙の雑誌とともに、5月にリリースされる予定の新譜「Love」のジャケットアートがあしらわれたTシャツと、「How Can You Leave Us Now!?」のサイン付き歌詞カードがセットになっています。購入はProgのオンラインストア「のみ」可能です。TシャツのサイズはSから2XLまで選択可能。こんな感じ。 picture from LouderSound.comProgの過去の表紙...
Things are cooking on FlowerKingsTV and here's the latest clip. I have actually listened to the new album 'Love' from start to finish twice (yesterday). Not sure what it is but it's a long time since I feel as excited about a new TFK album as this time. The music is softer, the tempo is slower (generally speaking) but still this music comes out as more powerful. Imho this is the best album we've d...
Hasse Fröbergが在籍するシンフォロックバンド、The Flower Kingsの新しいYouTubeチャンネルが開設されました。FacebookのHasseの投稿によると、スタジオやツアー中の様子などがアップされる予定っぽいです。（本文）Hey guys do you know what? From now on we have our own ”tv channel” called The Flower Kings Castle. We’ll upload things related to the band. It might be from the studio, it might be once on tour, or...
あらためて、TFKの新譜「Love」の情報です。フェミニンな顔つきにヒゲの人物。いろいろ深読みできそうなアートワークですね。今の情勢を考えるとアメリカ盤は変更されそう。知らんけど。各種プレオーダーはこちらからhttps://theflowerkings.lnk.to/LOVETracklist:1. We Claim The Moon2. The Elder3. How Can You Leave Us Now!?4. World Spinning5. Burning Both Edges6. The Rubble7. Kaiser Razor8. The Phoenix9. The Promise...
テレビやSNSを見れば、うんざりする話しか出てこない昨今、いかがお過ごしですか。相撲界は一人横綱だった照ノ富士の引退、そして新横綱・豊昇龍が誕生しました。1月場所千秋楽の巴戦は見事でした。これからより貫禄をつけて、おじさん（朝青龍）を超えるくらい強くなってほしいですね。あと、大の里も琴櫻もさっさと上がってくれ。一人横綱時代が長すぎる〜。はい。The Flower Kingsの新作「Love」のリリースと、ヨーロッパツアー...
photo from Hasse's facebookI think many of us thinks the world is out of tune and distorted at the moment. We’ve now come to the point where up is down, east is west, wrong is right and a lie is supposed to be the truth. All of a sudden an adult man seems to have forgotten how to express his enthusiasm in a respectful manner. An adult man feels offended because of a priest lecturing him about the ...
「Eternal Snapshots」に繋がる歌詞の世界 〜 暗闇に溺れ、光を求める「Eternal Snapshots」（以下ES）のコンセプトを読んだとき、まず最初に思ったのは
前半はこちら。【個々のエピソード】どの曲が誰について歌っているのかは以下の通り。舞台の「海沿いの街」を思わせるために、曲間に波の音や船の汽笛が挿入されている。All I Wanted To Be pt I (girl/woman)Deserve To Be Happy is about (girl/woman)Wherever You May Go (boy/man)No Messiah (boy/man)Once In A Lifetime (girl/woman)Only For Me (boy/man)The Yard (instrumental)Searching For The Dark (girl/woman)A Sorr...
【はじめに】Hasse FröbergがHasse Fröberg & Musical Companionの6thアルバム「Eternal Snapshots」のコンセプトを書いたテキストを、和訳したものをこちらに貼っておく。（原文を読みたい人は、元の記事をどうぞ）「事をはっきりさせるために。これは僕の古い夢でも何でもなかった。新しいやり方で歌詞を書くこと、そしていつも書いている題材から離れることを、自分に強いたかっただけなんだよね。安易な道を選んだとも言えるね...
photo by Tomas ForslundThe customer is always right.Guess I have to revise my personal opinion on our gig (HFMC) last saturday. People were like big questionmarks after my latest update some two days ago, which I could read in the comments. On top of that my Messenger inbox got bombed by people watching the show, wondering what I was talking about. If I'm to believe them we did an outstanding, phe...
When will one learn? I somehow knew I was optimistic when I thought we would make a flawless “one off gig” and then to record it on top of that. (So much for forty years of experience). Of course we didn’t reach the level we were aiming for and the way played on the rehearsals prior to the show. Not surprisingly the audience and the band up on the stage had two different experiences. I base this s...
If you give Johnny your little finger he takes the whole hand. No seriously, thank you for stopping by yesterday and surprising us by filming a little. If you think of the band as an entity. In our case five persons who are simultaneously struggling to develop the music to make it sound as good as possible. Not sure you remember but I told you the other day that our playing had progressed during t...
from Hasse's facebookIt’s no secret anymore. I’m in the studio with TFK to record our seventeenth studio album. Yes you heard me right, our studio album number 17. The ensemble is in good mood, Fenix Studios is fantastic, the photo session yesterday turned out good (according to the photographer), the material is melodically among the most beautiful we’ve recorded, so yes it’s all good. Time to ma...
Tomas Bodinの新しいプロジェクト（バンド?）、The Master's Brewのデビューアルバム「Elixir」のCDが、オンラインで買えるようになりました。のちのちダウンロード版も買えるようになるようです。こちらのサイトからどうぞ。PayPalも使えます。https://www.bodinmusic.com/#Store近年は海外から通販しようとすると、送料がえげつなくて諦めてしまう時もあるのですが、こちらは送料込みでも3000円しませんでした。もうちょっと商売...
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...
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...
