artist : Lisa O Piu
title : When This Was The Future
label : Subliminal Sounds
cat# : SUBCD29
genre : Folk
street date : 2009-06-26
tracks : 8
bitrate : 174 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 50.80 mb
source : CD
type : Retail
url : http://www.subliminalsounds.se
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Lisa Isaksson grew up in a small town on the outskirts of Stockholm where
she spent most of her time in horse stables dreaming of becoming a riding
teacher and owning her own stables. When she wasnÆt with the horses she
was drawing and spending time on her own in the garden and fantasized
about the future. As Lisa grew older and discovered music the drawings and
horses soon turned into song lyrics and it wasnÆt long before Lisa had
rescued her motherÆs old guitar from a life in the attic and began
experimenting with her voice and songs and began exploring recording
techniques with a 4-track recorder. Through the years her love of music
continued to grow and she started performing with friends and eventually
forming the band Piu together with her school buddies, LisaÆs debut record
was a single released in Scotland in 2007. The single got a lot of good
reviews and Lisa & Piu gave a couple of concert on the British Isles as
well as home in Stockholm. They also came to perform with the British folk
musician Roger Wootton who led the legendary acid folk band Comus during
the early 1970s. The performances went so well that they were released as
a live album. As summer came and turned Sweden into a green and pleasant
place again the core of Piu; Lisa, David, Joel and Anders went to a small
cottage in the beautiful archipelago north of Stockholm. They arranged and
rehearsed the music and also had a lot of fun on the cliffs enjoying the
endless sunsets of midsummer. So started the making of what was to become
the debut album: ôWhen this was the futureö. The album is filled with
delicious and bewitching woodland folk hymnals, eloquent yet eerie, and
led by LisaÆs gossamer vocals, as delicate as a candle flame. The album is
produced by Mattias Gustavsson (Life on Earth! / Dungen).
- When I heard Lisa o Piu it was if someone opened the portals to the
secret world where from the greatest get their divine inspiration; Linda
Perhacs, Bridget St. John, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Vashti Bunyan has
all been there. And now Lisa Isaksson has apparently been there too. So I
hereby warmly recommend you all to seat yourselves in a comfortable
position and sink in to the most beautiful music this world can offer. Far
away from any genres and trends.
http://www.myspace.com/lisaolillportan
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01 Cinnamon Sea 4:31
02 Forest Echo 5:06
03 Traitor 4:17
04 The Party 5:36
05 Two 5:55
06 Equatorial Changes 4:38
07 ─lvdans Vid Kolarkojan 4:03
08 And So On 6:27
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