I’m in love.
Let me introduce you to the beautiful Olle Nyman. Olly, fellow blogger not to be confused with Olle, has been on a roll lately. He introduced me to Olle Nyman recently and already I can’t stop listening to this album. I love the soul feel this album has. It seems to be the direction most singer song writers are taking as of late. Both Amos Lee and now Ray LaMontagne with the release of his new album both have a more soul sound.
I love this little excerpt from his myspace page , Olle has a “timeless” sound, one that I can certainly relate to. Love, loss, pain, grief, to simply state it … life. I really love this song “Take A Breath” - there are times I catch myself not breathing and I often have to remind myself to slow down. Great song, hope you enjoy this album as much as I do.
Nowadays words like timeless and sincere are looked upon as tired clichés and people tend to use them only in an ironic context. But you know what else is timeless? Sorrow, grief, pain, loneliness. And all their antidotes. Olle Nyman brings the antidote. He does Timeless like you and I do our daily chores, seemingly without any effort at all, when actually there is hard work behind it all. It’s the getting up, the holding back of tears, the finding of solace. Not to mention all the rest: the dishes, the cleaning and the cooking, the paying of bills and the everlasting getting-by. And here is where art and real life meets. We need help, we need company. Olle Nyman is the guy. Music becomes flesh. He provides the soul, he gets us by. It’s rare but he reminds us. We’re all in this together. It’s beautiful, it really is.
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I think if Paul Simon and Bob Dorough (”Three is a Magic Number”) had a biologically impossible son, he’d sound like Olle Nyman.
(and yes, this is a conspicuous attempt at proving that I do read this site)
I am thoroughly impressed that you made that comparison. My thoughts exactly. You’re scoring brownie points, and yes … I’m keeping tabs.
Although I am with you with the Paul Simon comparison I’m hearing Van Morrison all over this. Got that soul/gospel sound he does so well. I’m liking it.
Well I must say that Olle Nyman was new to me as well until Olivier dropped music from above. Glad he did so. Trini, I especially like the inclusion of the YouTube video for “Don´t let those bastards reel you in” as well.
Does anyone know how to purchase (online) the single for “…Bastards” - it is in iTunes, but I was hoping for non DRM music…
Olly sent it over - so not sure on the “Bastards” song. Will look for it.
Have to agree with you to Geordie, definitely a Van Morrison sound. I’m really liking this album.
Olle Nyman’s last full length ‘Venture’ is available on emusic.
Ha, finally got it from eMusic (it wouldn’t download all day, but tonight did the trick).
Thanks Oly for the tip on Olle.