Svarta ballader (album)
2005 studio album by Sofia Karlsson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Svarta ballader ("Black Ballads") is the classically-trained Swedish folk musician Sofia Karlsson's second studio album, released in 2005. On the disc she exclusively interprets poems written by the Swedish proletarian school author Dan Andersson; five of the eleven poems are from his 1917 collection Svarta ballader. The poems are set to music by different composers, including the singers Gunnar Turesson [sv], Gunde Johansson [sv], and Thorstein Bergman [sv]; the musician Sven Scholander; a member of Karlsson's band, Sofie Livebrant, and Karlsson herself; while one song was set by Andersson. Karlsson and her band arranged all the songs, with novel instrumentation including cello, trumpet, bass clarinet, piano and percussion.
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Released | 12 February 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2004, Kling and Klangs mobila | |||
Genre | Folk music | |||
Label | Bonnier Amigo Music Group | |||
Producer | Göran Petersson, Sigge Krantz, Sofia Karlsson | |||
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The album became Karlsson's breakthrough; it was warmly welcomed by critics, who described her as a great Swedish folk singer, and the album as revealing the meaning of familiar songs, hidden by traditional interpretations. It was awarded several prizes, including a Grammis in 2006, a Manifestgalan [sv] prize in 2006, and the Dan Andersson prize [sv] in 2008. She followed up the launch by touring with the album's songs for two years. The album reached a peak placing of 6 in the Swedish charts in 2005, remaining in the top list for 54 weeks. Over 60,000 copies of the album have been sold in Sweden, an exceptional number for that country.