single on I-tunes

I-Tunes has my new single now!
So enjoy and buy for yourself to keep, please.

I realized last night that it is exactly 8 years this month from my first album Poverina coming out. Wow, eight long years – or eight very short little years...depends on the measurement. So, anyway, I'm thinking of celebrating that somehow. More on those thoughts later... Meanwhile, here's some review quotes for In My Own House:

"Swan's unqiue style of grace and edge, enjoy the stunningly haunting ballad" Prefix (USA)
"On this new single, you’ll see her expansive creativity" Austin Town Hall (USA)

"‘In My House’, an intense and atmospheric song" Ja Ja Ja (UK)

"Whoah. If a song is full of feeling, then this is one of those songs. Shivers down my spine." Alice & June (FI)

"‘In My House’, an intense and atmospheric song" Ja Ja Ja (UK)

"Whoah. If a song is full of feeling, then this is one of those songs. Shivers down my spine." Alice & June (FI)

New Song

So here we go, today I'm sending out the first new track from what is to become Astrid4 – the newest  Astrid Swan album (due in autumn 2013).

At the moment the song is streaming at Soliti's Souncloud.




On the live show news: next week Friday the 24th of May I am playing @ Sellosali. Leppävaara w/ Aino Venna (7PM).

This song is a good way to sonically transfer between the mood of Hist (Pavement for Girls) and the future sound. I hope you like it!

Stream Stream Stream

Hi there spring person,
it's still pretty quiet here in Astrid Swan land, although I can let you in on a secret: album recording continues tomorrow!

While I spend my time creating newness in the studio, you can take a moment listening to Hits (Pavement for Girls) on a couple of streaming services all over the world. Congrats!
So while I still argue that buying an actual record from time to time is a good idea, here you go:
Spotify
Deezer

BTW: next Astrid Swan show is @Sellosali on May 24th, 2013
Catch us in an intimate duo form, and don't forget that Aino Venna is playing too!

Booking Agent Announcement

I am happy to reveal that my new agent for Finnish shows is Little Booker.
Please, send any requests for shows by Astrid Swan to Lotta Savolainen from now on.

Suomeksi myös: keikkamyyjäni on nykyään uudehko helsinkiläinen Little Booker, jota Lotta Savolainen luotsaa. Sinne siis kaikki keikkapyynnöt ja kyselyt!

Oh, and the only show in 2012 will take place on October 6th @Kanneltalo, Helsinki.
Here's more on the event and where you can buy tickets.  
The venue is excellent for my new material – there's a grand piano and the audience gets to sit down!

Hits (Pavement for Girls) World Wide release July 30th, 2012

Hello summer people,
I'm glad to announce that my Pavement covers album will be digitally available in the whole wide world from July 30th onwards.

Now you can support your local artist anywhere in the world and buy the album at a rather good price.
Pre-order the album from
Amazon USA
I-tunes UK
Amazon Germany
More links for the album will be available later!
Soliti has other cool and great albums coming out world wide on the same day, so check them out here.

Happy 1st Birthday Soliti

Today marks a year from when Nick Triani seriously set to working on Soliti – a record label. Soliti is a label that released my Hits (Pavement for Girls) as well as having introduced new bands such as The New Tigers, Black Twig and continued the journey of Cats On Fire.

If anyone can testify on how much Triani (the heart and soul of Soliti) has worked, it should be me, as I have watched the operation from the very beginning. My Pavement covers album was the first release in August 2011. Our living room continues to be the main theater of this show (on alternating days I am both proud and annoyed by this fact). Only a positively crazy and hideously daring person would start a record label in 2011 signing only bands/artists based on artistic originality. Clearly, all the risks have been worth taking. I think that Soliti is on its way up somewhere in the staircase where art, music, hard work and a little business meet. It is getting harder and harder for bands to find a record label to release their music. To find a record label with passion for great art has always been rare. We are blessed.

Here's a link to Soliti's post about the b-day and to all the released albums streaming (for a week) in celebration. Please, listen and support your hard-working label and artists buy purchasing the records!

You can also go to Soundcloud to listen to the whole Soliti catalogue!

Summer and intuition

I hope you are having a great early summer! I have been attacked by a mini-flu, which is ok since I haven't been sick for a year. I think I have accidentally bought a zucchini plant among my herb garden shopping... So lets see if it's possible to grow a real zucchini in a pot.

Anyway, as I concentrate on the Baby Swan, I am also putting a little energy on the side to prepare my fourth solo album and it was a surprise to see this blog post on me today, as it sort of predicts what's to come...I do not know the writer, but he seems to be thinking along the same lines as me.