{"id":4083,"date":"2021-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2021-08-17T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:03:34","slug":"soundwave-72-vargkvint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-72-vargkvint\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 72 : VARGKVINT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Sofia Nystrand, AKA Vargkvint<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

For months, Sofia\u2019s music kept appearing on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlists. If I didn\u2019t find Sofia\u2019s music there, she\u2019d pop up on someone else\u2019s playlist. Or I\u2019d find her music on Bandcamp. In fact, Brueder Selke (CEEYS<\/a>), played Sofia\u2019s \u201cUt\u00e5t\u201d<\/a> on their mix<\/a> for Soundwave a few weeks ago. <\/p>\n\n

There\u2019s a reason for this, of course. Sofia has that magical ability to trasnport you to a world that is uniquely hers yet utterly familiar though her songs. Sofia deftly weaves folk, contemporary classical, pop, experimental music, and ambient. It\u2019s a gorgeous thing to experience and I\u2019m delighted to share her mix with you on today\u2019s show.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019d like to hear more music from Sofia, she is featured on the Realismo M\u00e1gico<\/a><\/em> compilation album from piano and coffee records<\/a>. Some of the artists you\u2019ll find on Sofia\u2019s mix can also be found on the album (Klangriket, Sjors Mans, Jakob Lindhagen, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Simeon Walker, Ceeys). Sofia has also just released a rework of the first track, \u201cPomegranate,\u201d by Sergio Diaz de Rojas.<\/p>\n\n

Sofia has some words about her mix below.<\/p>\n\n

Before I get out of Dodge, I\u2019m happy to report that this weekend I briefly had my wife and kids in the same house. It was short lived, though. My wife headed back to work Sunday evening, and the kids will be visiting their dad next week. But after months and months of being apart, it was a small blessing.<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Jonathan Ammons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n

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Sofia Nyland, AKA Vargkvint<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

When I was working on this mixtape, I wanted it to be centered around collaboration and how music can change when being transformed by another person\u2019s creativity. I\u2019ve just released a rework album where people have reimagined<\/a> my songs from the album Hav<\/a><\/em> (I have two of them included in the mixtape), and it made me inspired to find other remixes or reworks to include. One of my favorite songs of this year is the rework that Alexandra Hamilton-Ayes have made of Frances Shelley\u2019s \u201dEvening Star\u201d. Apart from the amazing reworks, I have included a few newly released songs, and a couple of my personal favorites from artists who I really admire.<\/p>\n\n