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Behind the scenes of ‘My James Dean’

As we were shooting the video for my single ‘My James Dean’ I was also busy shooting a ‘behind the scenes video’. You get to follow me around all day, from early morning getting ready with hair and make up ’til late night driving home. I would like to thank Åsa Östergren for the fab hairdo and make up, Swing i Swaben for letting us shoot the video there and ‘Sweet Emma and the Mood Swingers’ for looking awsome in the video. Do check out their own web site: http://www.sweetemma.se

I’ve tried to be extra nice to all of you who don’t understand Swedish so the second video is equipped with english subtitles. And when you’ve seen the ‘behind-video’ scroll down and to see how the video turned out!

Behind the scenes – Swedish version

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Worldwide album release!

I’m so excited to announce that my album “Jonestown” is being released in the US, Canada and Japan this fall! The release will be followed by a tour in the North-East so keep checking in here for updates about tour dates and other stuff!

New album 2009: Blog #7

Yet a day in the closet recording a new song. Each time I go in there I’m stunned over by how long it actually takes to do all the takes, chorus vocals and everything. I spend at least half a day just recording vocals and editing them. As you’ve already seen my tiny closet studio this is just a blog and no vlog, but maybe I should call it a mlog because here’s a sample of today’s song for you. It’s called “You plate your heart with gold” and I was inspired to write it after I heard Mason Jenning’s song “Which way your heart will go” and actually thought he sang “you plate your heart with gold”. It’s a song about people posing to be better than they are. They keep hurting others but pretend they have a heart of gold.

This preview is unmixed and a work in progress and will probably sound a lot different on the album when released.

Listen here to: “You Plate Your Heart With Gold” by Sofia Talvik

New album 2009: Blog #6

Yes that’s right folks, no vlog this time but I’ve got something even better for you: some audio! I’ve been locked in my closet all day recording my song “My Bored Ol’ Heart” from scratch. The song will be featured on my upcoming album. Still just me and my guitar but here’s a shortened sample for you! Enjoy!

Click here to listen to “My Bored Ol’ Heart” by Sofia Talvik (c) 2009

Telia recommends the new app!

Telia iPhone Blog writes that my iPhone app captures the most essential content and recommends you to buy it. Check it out here:

Stay updated – get my iPhone app!

It’s streaming music and videos! It’s showing pictures and lets you know when there’s news, gigs and other fun stuff the instant the info is released! It’s finally here! It’s my Sofia Talvik iPhone app. Get it for your iPhone now and stay updated on your fave singer/songwriter (because I am, right?!)

Get it here!

New Album 2009: Vlog #5

“The closet recordings”… that’s a nice name  for a new album, but I’m not sure I’ll chose it for my upcoming one, although I have moved into the closet to continue my recordings. I’m doing some more vocal takes at home and ordered a mic stand from musiciansfriend.com much cheaper than Guitar Center which I basically live on top of. Being alone in the closet gives me the comfort of having no one listening, being able to try out different stuff even if it might sound weird or wrong without a clock ticking away in a studio session. So I’ll probably do most of the vocals in here. Welcome to the tour!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgZEBBynK1c

Microsoft is giving away my music for free

Microsoft has made it possible for all you guys to download the song “Burning Fields” of the songs from my latest album for free! Get it here:

Places to grab my music for free

I tought I would list a couple of places where I’ve put up some of my music for free. Since I use a lot of different social media sites I got lot of my music spread out both here and there. So I came up with this idea to compiled list of where you can download some of it for free.

Last.FM is a great place. I got all my albums up there. You can listen and download some of the songs.
http://www.last.fm/music/Sofia+Talvik/+albums

Then we have ReverbNation.
I got a few tunes up there and you can also grab widgets with my songs or fancollector widgets and put on your blog.
Feel free to help support my music by placing them om your blog!

Cut and Paste this widget to your blog by pressing the SHARE button on the player below.

New media with Sofia Talvik

“…her digital strategy seems to be light years ahead of the marketing departments at major record labels.”

So writes “The purpose of all media” about my twitter campaign for my summer single. The whole interview with me about my DIY marketing through social media is available here:

thepurposeofallmedia.blogspot.com