The new album “The Sleeper – A Live Collection” has now been released on 10″ vinyl and streaming!
It’s a collection of live recordings made throughout the years of Stellan Wahlström Drift Band. It starts off with “The Sleeper” (and later on “What are you made of?”) from Arlene’s Grocery in New York with a special version of the band consisting of Billy Ficca (of Television), Jason Victor (Dream Syndicate) and Patrick Derivaz (Tom Verlaine) joining Stellan Wahlström on stage.
A couple of more recent tracks were recorded in Stockholm with the current line-up of the band, slow-flowing psychedelic versions of “And I was finally sleeping” and “Hotel Continental” with Fender Rhodes and phaser guitar, and a piano based “An Old Monk in an Ambassador in the rain” taken from a gig at the city’s premier book store/literary scene Rönnells.
There’s an acoustic version of “The Paying”, the opening track of the first album, together with singer/songwriter Amy Madden from a small club in the East Village, NY in the late 90’s. The album ends with an encore, found on an old cassette, a rowdy version of the old blues song “Let me play with your poodle” (written by Tampa Red and recorded by Lightnin’ Hopkins and others) recorded in the Cavern-like club Kaos in Stockholm in the early 90’s.
It’s available on all streaming sites now, download and vinyl from Bandcamp, and in Stockholm at good record stores like Pet Sounds, Record Mania, Bengans, Runt Runt and Larry’s Corner.
Listen here to “The Sleeper – A Live Collection” on Spotify
Downloads and vinyl from Bandcamp
And this is what “The Sleeper” looked like: