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Sweden’s extraordinary drums and vocals duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with The Snake, the fierce follow up to their intoxicating debut, Heartcore (“a heady brew of pagan blues, spiritual pop and ecstatic soul music” Top 10 Album Of The Month, Observer Music Monthly).

Acclaimed as one of Time Out‘s Top 10 Albums Of The Year (among other accolades including an 8.0 from Pitchfork), Heartcore introduced vocalist Mariam Wallentin and her percussionist husband Andreas Werliin to the world outside their lively Gothenburg scene and wound up as one of 2008’s hidden treasures. The pair has since toured extensively, thriving on international festival stages, equally at home alongside pop sensations like fellow Swede Lykke Li as free-improv outfit The Thing.

The liberated abandon of Wildbirds & Peacedrums’ primitive soul music strikes an immediate and invigorating chord, as anyone who has seen them over the past year will attest. With The Snake, they deliver an adrenalin shot of passion straight to the heart, with songs that draw on anger and frustration as well as the life-affirming ardour that propels their music. “This record is not the typical second album. You know – filled with a lot of doubts,” explains Mariam with characteristic self-assurance. “We only work from intuition, on instinct. We’re not looking for perfection in music, rather for life and feeling. We like to be more explosive!”

Improbable recipients of the prestigious Jazz In Sweden 2008 prize, Mariam and Andreas used their winnings to record at the Soundtrack Of Our Lives-owned Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg. Vocals and drums were brilliantly recorded live to tape, and the spontaneity of the resulting album captures the intense bond between the couple, while expanding their sonic palette to include steel drum, piano, xylophone, marimba, Rhodes and more. “We tried to deconstruc.......
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Nareszcie dostępna u nas w wersji CD najnowsza płyta szwedzkiego duetu, których debiut "Heartcore" okrzyknięto w prasie muzycznej jedną z 10 najlepszych płyt 2008 roku a ich koncert na mysłowickim Off-Festiwalu należał z pewnością do największych wydarezń koncertowych 2009 roku w Polsce.
Pod tą dziwną nazwą "Wuildbirds & Peacedrums" kryją się niezwykle charyzmatyczna wokalistka Mariam Wallentin i perkusista Andreas Werliin.

Ich muzyka to niespotykana dotąd fuzja improwizacji jazzowej, bluesa, soulu i folku. Oprócz instrymentów perkusyjnych pojawiają się tu także ksylofon, marimba i cytra.
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Sweden’s extraordinary drums and vocals duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with The Snake, the fierce follow up to their intoxicating debut, Heartcore (“a heady brew of pagan blues, spiritual pop and ecstatic soul music” Top 10 Album Of The Month, Observer Music Monthly).

Acclaimed as one of Time Out‘s Top 10 Albums Of The Year (among other accolades including an 8.0 from Pitchfork), Heartcore introduced vocalist Mariam Wallentin and her percussionist husband Andreas Werliin to the world outside their lively Gothenburg scene and wound up as one of 2008’s hidden treasures. The pair has since toured extensively, thriving on international festival stages, equally at home alongside pop sensations like fellow Swede Lykke Li as free-improv outfit The Thing.

The liberated abandon of Wildbirds & Peacedrums’ primitive soul music strikes an immediate and invigorating chord, as anyone who has seen them over the past year will attest. With The Snake, they deliver an adrenalin shot of passion straight to the heart, with songs that draw on anger and frustration as well as the life-affirming ardour that propels their music. “This record is not the typical second album. You know – filled with a lot of doubts,” explains Maria.......
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