DISCOGRAPHY
The Excitable Gift
Belpid CD 022
Released 02/2005
01. You Need To Come
02. Kill
03. What's meant for you
03. won't pass you by
04. Ocean Ave.mp3
05. Almost Lost
06. Birthday Song Part II.mp3
07. Too Much
08. Linger
09. I'm Sorry
10. Forever Changed
11. The Excitable Gift
12. Further Away From You
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STELLAN
WAHLSTRÖM
DRIFT BAND
In the late eighties Stellan Wahlström toured Europe and the USA with the garage rock band The Wylde Mammoths, releasing records on the legendary Crypt Records label.
He was also in The High Speed V, another wild rock combo coming out of that same scene. He is now out of the garage and with his new band he is doing what could be described as modern big-city folk rock, a kind of slow and somber rock with singer/songwriter roots.
Or as The Big Takeover put it, "a more sophisticated take on a cross between post-Velvets and Alt-Country with a very clean almost jazz-like ambience".
Based in New York during the last half of the nineties, Stellan did lots of live shows at clubs like CBGB's, Gaslight and Sidewalk, and recorded the album "Time leaves you behind" with Patrick A Derivaz who has previously worked with Television, Luna and John Cale.
Stellan also did some studio work for other artists, for instance he's playing harmonica on the new album by New York rockers Sour Jazz, and the song "Watching TV" is featured in the independent film "Rhyme and Reason".
Returning to Sweden he reformed the band, released the "So this is what the end looks like"-EP, and started playing live again in Stockholm (as well as an acoustic tour in India in 2003).
The new album "The Excitable Gift" was recorded by Sten Hårdbåge at Das Boot Studio in Stockholm and mixed by Linus Larsson (Anna Ternheim, Eldkvarn and others). Here they've taken their music further towards folk rock - lots of piano, acoustic guitar, violin and an electric Hagström 12-string can be heard on the warm-sounding analogue recording.
PRESS
"A very strong band performing some amazing music. Wahlstrom is a songwriter of the Townes Van Zandt/Bob Dylan school - not that his work sounds anything like either of those artists, but he has the same confidence in his storytelling"
// The Big Takeover (USA)
"True feelings and authenticity...Might come to mean a lot to many people"
// Upsala Nya Tidning (Sweden)
"Stellan is succeeding well with the down to earth melancholy"
// Ett Noll Ett (Sweden)
"Definitely honest" (7,5/10)
// Ici Magazine (Canada)
"Some of the intensity from which great albums are made"
// Realmusic (Germany)
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Stellan Wahlström
Stellan Wahlström
Stellan Wahlström