When I wrote the songs to ”Them Feet”, my idea was to make an album with a faster beat compared to previous ones. But when it was completed I realized, in spite of a few more up beat songs than before, that it was a pretty slow album. I immediately decided to have another go. With the help from a metronome, on which I enhanced the tempo, I embraced the stadium rocker within me and began writing, says Tom.
Some of the songs were written when Tom was involved with project The House of Songs, where artists from all over the world and different genres, come together to write music. ”Girl from Nova Scotia” is a tribute to artist Mo Kenny, who attented The House of Songs together with Tom and who's later won several awards in Canada. Other lyric themes are life-long friendship, bisons, grandmothers, everyday life as a parent and having discussions about human values with men at carrentals.
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domingo, 7 de diciembre de 2014
martes, 11 de noviembre de 2014
Tom Levin: More than a song (Single, 2014)
Tom Levin has released five albums, played at festivals in New Orleans, he has been a frequent name on american critics lists of the year's best music and received a New Music Award for best male artist. Now he is releasing a double album consisting of records ”Them Buffalo” and ”Them Feet”.
Making two records was an unexpected result of the attempt to make an upbeat album.
- When I wrote the songs to ”Them Feet”, my idea was to make an album with a faster beat compared to previous ones. But when it was completed I realized, in spite of a few more up beat songs than before, that it was a pretty slow album. I immediately decided to have another go. With the help from a metronome, on which I enhanced the tempo, I embraced the stadium rocker within me and began writing, says Tom.
Some of the songs were written when Tom was involved with project The House of Songs, where artists from all over the world and different genres, come together to write music. ”Girl from Nova Scotia” is a tribute to artist Mo Kenny, who attented The House of Songs together with Tom and who's later won several awards in Canada. Other lyric themes are life-long friendship, bisons, grandmothers, everyday life as a parent and having discussions about human values with men at carrentals.
viernes, 7 de febrero de 2014
Tom Levin: Them feet (Video-Single, 2014)
On his fifth album "Them Feet" (release date January 29), Tom builds on his love of American roots music while gaining new inspiration elsewhere in everything from Swedish indie-pop to hiphop.
Since his debut with "Saving Grandma" in 2002, Tom has continued to build a fanbase on both sides of the Atlantic. His music has reached # 1 on one of the biggest indie charts in the U.S., and he’s won the New Music Weekly Award for “Male Artist of the Year". Tom has received rave reviews from bloggers and music magazines in both the U.S and Canada and his latest album, “Tooth and Claw” found its way onto several music writers’ seasonal best list. And by the way, he’s had Rod Stewart as a supporting act, sung the part of Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar, flipped a race car, been honored in song by a Maori Tribe in New Zealand, and once he almost killed a horse.
“Them Feet” is the first of two new albums coming from Tom in 2014. The second will be released in late August. More info on that release and on Tom is found at: www.tomlevin.com
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