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People Land & Time: Land
The Land cover is a map, logic huh?
Download Tunes United’s People Land & Time: Land or listen too the songs online:
People Land & Time: Time
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Download Tunes United’s People Land & Time: Time or listen too the songs online:
The album/calendar is limited to 200 copies and they are sold exclusively at Papercut, Krukmakargatan 24-26 Stockholm for 149 kr. Listen to it for free in the player below.
OK. Just one question. Is this a music record or is this a calender? Well, it can’t be more than one thing at once, can it?
We would say it’s a journey. A journey through the ever-changing, ever-challenging and (almost) ever-flowering landscape of Södermanland. You travel with two guides; the Osprey (Pandion Haliaetus Haliaetus) and the
Giant Stag-beetle (Lucanus Servus Servus – also known as “Lucas”).
The music is your soundtrack, or more suitable, soundscape, when exploring this landscape.
Their view is constantly altering between green, pleasant woodlands and historical battlefields, charged with fear. The photographs shown herein are the scenes the two creatures visit, hopefully along with you. The illustrations show how their roles changes as they both is of a very flexible character. The music is your soundtrack, or more suitable, soundscape, when exploring this landscape. Finally, the calendar format is chosen to represent Time – The change of seasons, dawn, dusk, birth, death or whatever you find yourself inspired by. One song equals one month. From the frosty ballad of Sweetest Fairest Water Lily via sunshowered railroads in A Time Table Tale further to the cold and hopefully snow-clad castle at Tullgarn, outside Södertälje.
People, Land & Time as a project is divided into four releases; Time, Land, People and A Time Table Tale (uh, sounds logic…).
People, Land & Time as a project is divided into four releases; Time, Land, People and A Time Table Tale (uh, sounds logic…). Time, the one that you now hold in your hand, contains the last three songs, but this calendar is already prepared with artwork and lyrics for the rest of the tracks / months. Therefore, it should be rather easy to dive into the new tunes when they arrive during the year of 2009.
When talking about 2009, we in Tunes United want to wish you all — out there in our progressive world — a Happy New Year and a very good listening experience!
Well, except for Lucas, the giant Stag-beetle, because he hasn’t got any ears.
//Tunes United
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Time front cover.
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//Tunes United
United Tunes
As a debut album, United Tunes seems to be a kind of strange set of songs. This record is a short one, clocking at just 30 minutes, and is therefore often considered as an EP. Yet it consists of ten pieces of music linking together a vague but mind-blowing story not far away from the concept albums of the seventies.
The United Tunes cover
Download the United Tunes EP or if you are more into words than music, read the lyrics here.
- Orient express | Lyrics
- Weather War Woodlands I | Lyrics
- A minor breal / A major break | Instrumental
- Weather War Woodlands II | Lyrics
- Celestial | Lyrics
- Night of the Storm | Lyrics
- Weather War Woodlands III | Lyrics
- 10eme arrt | Lyrics
- Södermanland | Lyrics
- What Happened to Joachim Berner, Where Is He now and What Does He Think about “Klick!”? | Lyrics
When you get the album in your hand, you also get a postcard stamped in 1949. It all begins with Orient Express, reassembling the past into a four-minute journey. The century continues circling around such as common themes as terrifying wars and calming woodlands …and a little bit of the ever-present weather too! The chaos reaches a sort of anti-climax with the straight-forward stage-favourite Celestial and the narrow but dark The Night of the Storm, before diving into rock’n’rollier moods again.
“Södermanland is as Swedish as a song can be without being written in Swedish, giving you the pulse of a mid-eastern town in this country”
The last ten minutes is formed of the present world we live in now (or more like the almost ancient 1990’s). Södermanland is as Swedish as a song can be without being written in Swedish, giving you the pulse of a mid-eastern town in this country.
“It might be a bit of a spoof. But so were the nineties. And so are Tunes United too, sometimes”
Södermanland’s long and almost pastoral end is the complete opposite to the sharp crescendo that cuts off the last track; What happened to Joachim Berner and What Does He Think About Klick? This tongue-in-cheek song is in fact a contrast to the rest of the record . It’s a surprise how an album that begins with the seriousness of Orient’s lyrics can end up with an overwhelming tribute to a long-ago forgotten newspaper editor. It might be a bit of a spoof. But so were the nineties. And so are Tunes United too, sometimes.
