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01. THE GRAND OPENING - Blacker Than Blue
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02. THE GRAND OPENING - False Light
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03. THE GRAND OPENING - Towards Your Final Rest
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04. THE GRAND OPENING - Free
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05. THE GRAND OPENING - There Is Always Hope
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06. THE GRAND OPENING - Old News
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07. THE GRAND OPENING - Target
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08. THE GRAND OPENING - The Living
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09. THE GRAND OPENING - Over the Fences
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10. THE GRAND OPENING - Tired Eyes
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ARTIST
GRAND OPENING, THE
TITLE
Don't Look Back Into the Darkness
FORMAT
LP+CD
LABEL
TAPETE RECORDS
CATALOG #
TR 268LP
TR 268LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
10/29/2013
LP version with CD. The one-man project
The Grand Opening
by the Stockholm multi-instrumentalist
John Roger Olsson
proves impressively on his fourth album that he is rightly counted among the finest representatives of beautiful and melancholy music. Being mentioned directly alongside
American Music Club
,
Talk Talk
,
Red House Painters
and
The Blue Nile
-- as happens in the British music press -- is certainly flattering. And these references are indeed helpful to give a rough impression. But their resemblance to The Grand Opening is mainly to do with the mood created by the music. Anyone familiar with the previous three albums will recognize the typical monotonous guitar structures, the sparse but always beautiful harmonic framework, and of course Olsson's unique melancholy and warm voice -- all perfectly arranged and recorded at the highest technical level with various guest musicians. What is missing from those references -- and here we come back to the initial question -- is, let's call it "the Swedish component." The Grand Opening sonically evokes the lonely and romantic image of the Swedish countryside and pairs this with lyrics questioning man's place in the world and personal memories of the past. So it was perfectly apt that a short time before he began recording the new album, Olsson found old photos at his grandmother's house that magically reflect the mood that he intended to create, and which he therefore chose for the album's artwork. The cover image especially appealed to him: it shows his family on a boating excursion, strangely paused, and at the center of the image, in a very spooky way, one family member has faded into a ghostly figure. The recordings for the album began in 2012 with sessions featuring a rotating cast, but the search for the right direction was difficult. Finally, John Roger Olsson locked himself up in his new studio in Stockholm and, inspired by ideas and chords that had occupied him for a long time, recorded the album in four days. The resulting songs were accompanied by
Jens Pettersson
(drums),
Patric Thorman
(bass) and
Leo Svensson Sander
(cello) and augmented by
Johan Krantz
and
Anna Ödlund
on backing vocals.
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