artist : Freddie Wadling
title : With A License To Kill
label : Live Nation / EMI
cat# : 5099973165927
genre : Jazz
street date : 2011-11-09
tracks : 13
bitrate : 239 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 65.70 mb
source : CD
type : Retail
url : http://www.freddiewadling.net
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This album was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award in the Jazz category.
It contains Freddie's own interprations of James Bond theme songs.
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Freddie Wadling's career spans over a multitude of musical styles, from
punk to classic ballads, and also includes acting and writing operas.
During the '70s and early '80s he played in three punk bands: Liket lever,
Cortex and Straitjackets, but his importance for the Swedish punk scene
has been small. Instead it is in alternative rock and experimental music
he has been influential, playing both with Flesh Quartet and Blue for Two.
His weird image -- half druggie, half horror maestro -- and a reputation
for being a genius got him attention from even mainstream media and made
him the focus of most bands he played with. This even when he wasn't a
full member, like in Flesh Quartet. In the late '90s, the solo career he
had long pursued gained speed.
Wadling was born in G÷teborg in 1951. In 1975 he joined Straitjacket, one
of the first punk bands in Sweden. To little fame they played together for
four years, until breaking up in 1978, when the remaining members formed
Liket Lever. This band released a single for the company Sista Bussen in
1979 but Wadling was already involved in another band, the controversial
Leather Nun, where he played bass. He also played guitar in Perverts, and
throughout his career this would be typical for him, keeping numerous side
projects running simultaneously. The Leather Nun was infamous for
revolting posters and fights at their concerts. Musically they spanned
over a wide and unpredictable area: from punk and garage rock to something
the members themselves, but few others, described as disco. Wadling left
the band in 1982 and by then he had already been playing with his own
band, Cortex, for almost two years, as well as with the short-lived
project Rukorna. Wadling wrote the songs for Cortex, but after the band
released an LP, he quickly formed a new group, the duo Blue for Two,
together with Henryk Lipp. This was first intended to be a temporary
studio project, but they would play together, live and on record,
throughout the entire '80s. Some of their albums were successful abroad,
but in the early '90s, Lipp was struck by illness, and though the band
continued to record albums, they stopped touring.
In 1988 Wadling collaborated with Flesh Quartetfor the first time, a band
that, while in many aspects being experimental, enjoyed a lot of
popularity. The next year he released his first solo album, Something
Wicked This Way Comes, and in the '90s he pursued at least three careers
at once: as a solo artist, as a member of Blue For Two and soon as a
steady member of Flesh Quartet. Of course this wasn't enough, and though
the list of bands Wadling played with is longer, a few from the '90s
should be mentioned: The Mobile Whorehouse was formed in 1989 and broke up
in 1990 after releasing an album produced by Alexander Hacke from
Einstⁿrzende Neubauten, Suzie Beats Them All was formed in the mid-'90s
and the Forge players released an album in 1998, called Flow My Tears -
The Songs of John Dowland.
In addition to all these projects, in the '90s Wadling wrote two operas
and acted on stage and in a number of films. Late in the decade he also
found the time to work on his solo career. After big critical and moderate
commercial success with a number of Flesh Quartet albums, he released En
Skiva Till Kaffet in 1999. This collection of songs written by classic
Swedish singers like Evert Taube, as well as by comedians like Hasse σ
Tage, received very favorable reviews and was followed up by Skillingtryck
Och Mordvisor, where Wadling interpreted 19th century ballads in the style
of Nick Cave's Murder Ballads.
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01 You Only Live Twice 2:30
02 License To Kill 2:40
03 The World Is Not Enough 3:46
04 Goldeneye 3:08
05 Secret Agent Man 3:13
06 Diamonds Are Forever 2:38
07 Another Way To Die 3:02
08 Goldfinger 2:38
09 From Russia With Love 2:30
10 Live And Let Die 2:46
11 A View To A Kill 3:46
12 Tomorrow Never Dies 2:51
13 We Have All The Time In The World 2:36
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