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
Out of the studio and back from mixing in New York, the new album and a new single are now ready.
The recording was made the old fashioned way on to 2"-tape by Christian Gabel at Cobra Studio in Stockholm, and mixed by Patrick A Derivaz in Brooklyn, NY. Here the band has taken their music further towards their own brand of urban folk rock - lots of piano, organs, acoustic guitar, violin and an electric Hagström 12-string can be heard on the warm-sounding analogue recording. The lyrics deal with diverse topics such as someone lying in his sofa watching Simpsons and listening to Judy Collins, a couple drinking free wine in a department store in Berlin, and a guy getting off his work at the crematorium. The first single "Charlotte says" is a Telecaster-driven, rich, mid-tempo rock song, backed by a cover of late 60's downer-folk singer Karen Beth's "Nothing lasts".
In the late eighties Stellan Wahlström toured Europe and the USA with 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 Drift 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 US magazine 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 had previously worked with Television, Luna and John Cale among others. Stellan also did some studio work for other artists, for instance he's playing harmonica on New York rockers Sour Jazz first album, and the song "Watching TV" was 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 second 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), and featured the slow piano song "Ocean Ave" which some radio stations quite liked.
The third album's release will be celebrated by some live playing so keep your eyes and ears open!
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