Jekyll2022-02-17T18:57:52+01:00http://localhost:4000/test/feed.xmlJohan DavidssonJohan Davidsssonandrew-parkTraveling Song2019-09-27T03:00:00+02:002019-09-27T03:00:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/09/27/travelingsong<p>First single from the album is now out!</p>
<h1 id="get-it-below-click"><strong>Get it below</strong> (click):</h1>
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<p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4zkJS2MG2omhrVz9AC59Z9?si=mbkTMLSpQ-u9rpR198DCww">Listen for free on <strong>spotify</strong></a>:</p>
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<p><a href="https://johandavidsson.bandcamp.com/track/traveling-song-3">Listen or pay whatever you want on <strong>bandcamp</strong></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/traveling-song-single/1480460179?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">Buy it on <strong>apple music</strong></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y6F2ZG8/?tag=distrokid06-20">Buy it on <strong>amazon</strong></a></p>
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<h4 id="credits-for-traveling-song">Credits for Traveling Song</h4>
<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>released September 27, 2019
johan davidsson - guitars, piano
james whife - bass
hannes obers - drums
anna thorstensson - cello
alfred strand - piano
daniel örtegren - saxophone, clarinet
martin lindell gilleberg - guitar
produced by johan davidsson
recorded by jonas jönsson at tambourine studios, malmo/sweden
mixed by björn lindberg (bjorn.li)
mastered by jon rinneby (jon.rinneby.se)
</code></pre></div></div>andrew-parkFirst single from the album is now out! Get it below (click): Listen for free on spotify: Listen or pay whatever you want on bandcamp Buy it on apple music Buy it on amazon Credits for Traveling Song released September 27, 2019 johan davidsson - guitars, piano james whife - bass hannes obers - drums anna thorstensson - cello alfred strand - piano daniel örtegren - saxophone, clarinet martin lindell gilleberg - guitar produced by johan davidsson recorded by jonas jönsson at tambourine studios, malmo/sweden mixed by björn lindberg (bjorn.li) mastered by jon rinneby (jon.rinneby.se)Album release - Things Behind the Blues2019-09-27T03:00:00+02:002019-09-27T03:00:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/09/27/album-out<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>The album is out! Get it in below places:</p>
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<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3TWbm13IeY7Y3WGQeqpy7b?si=AL9cBRZlTnKqw253CiA1IQ">Listen for free on <strong>spotify</strong></a>:</li>
<li><a href="https://johandavidsson.bandcamp.com/album/things-behind-the-blues">Listen or pay whatever you want on <strong>bandcamp</strong></a></li>
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<p><img src="/test/assets/images/album_artwork_1_low.jpg" width="40%" display="block" margin-left="auto" margin-right="auto" /></p>andrew-parkHey everyone! The album is out! Get it in below places: Listen for free on spotify: Listen or pay whatever you want on bandcampSingle and album release!2019-09-15T11:00:00+02:002019-09-15T11:00:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/09/15/single-and-album<p>I’m happy to announce that on the 27th of September the single from the album “Traveling Song” will be released. And short thereafter, on 12th of October the whole album will be out on all thinkable digital platforms.</p>
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<p>An update about the blog:
In my last post I wrote a little about the mastering of the music. Obviously a lot has happened since. Things like distribution, album artwork and naming the thing. When I have time I’ll write about that to but for now I just wanted to give an update that the music is coming soon!</p>
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<p>Here’s a taste from “Traveling Song”.</p>
<p><strong>Video</strong> : <em>album teaser #2</em> (single release promo)</p>
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<script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>andrew-parkI’m happy to announce that on the 27th of September the single from the album “Traveling Song” will be released. And short thereafter, on 12th of October the whole album will be out on all thinkable digital platforms. An update about the blog: In my last post I wrote a little about the mastering of the music. Obviously a lot has happened since. Things like distribution, album artwork and naming the thing. When I have time I’ll write about that to but for now I just wanted to give an update that the music is coming soon! Here’s a taste from “Traveling Song”. Video : album teaser #2 (single release promo) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Johan Davidsson (@johandavidssonmusic) on Sep 15, 2019 at 7:41am PDTMastering2019-08-07T11:00:00+02:002019-08-07T11:00:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/08/07/mastering<p>Hello!</p>
<p>It’s been a while since I wrote here and since I last posted, the music has been mastered by Jon Rinneby at <strong><a href="http://jon.rinneby.se/studio/">sound of wool</a></strong>. After a few versions/rounds back and forth, it is finished, meaning that the music is completely done now, wohoo!</p>
<p>As one could expect, I’ve listened to it countless times and a challenge now towards the end has been to keep myself open to really listening. A thing that I caught myself doing as I was starting to listen through the first version of the master, was that rather then listening if I thought it sounded good I instead focused exclusively on comparing the current version to the previous version. Although I think it’s a valid approach to use comparisons in order to see that it goes in the wanted direction, I also admit to loosing a bit of the point that music is ultimately a subjective experience. So it has also been helpful to ask others what they think of the music in its current state, without any knowledge about how it sounded before.</p>
<p>I think the biggest difference for me when listening before and after mastering is the extra clarity it brings to the whole thing, making it sound much more refined/finished. Anyway, it feels great to be finished and it was pleasure to work with Jon. (If you are reading this - thanks Jon!)</p>
<p>I’ve also made a bunch of short clips/teasers from the album that I thought to come in handy for sharing until it gets released all together. Actually, to end with, I would like to share the first snippet from the actual recording :). This is one of the more jazzier tracks.</p>
<p><strong>Video</strong> : <em>album teaser #1</em></p>
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transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div></div></div></a> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B03uDOzC2W5/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Soon my first album will be released! Beginning in mars this year I started this project and with the help of many friends and great musicians I am excited that the music is now finished and waiting to be released very soon! From what I think and what people tell me, I would say that the music seems to move through many genres.. cinematic, jazz, tango? It doesn't really matter to me as long as there is a hint of blues :) Here is the first very short glimpse of one of the jazzier tracks featuring Hannes Olbers on drums, James Whife on double bass, Anna Thorstensson on cello and myself on piano and guitar. Visit my website if you want to read more about the whole project and everyone involved! /Johan</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/johandavidssonmusic/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;" target="_blank"> Johan Davidsson</a> (@johandavidssonmusic) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2019-08-07T17:09:54+00:00">Aug 7, 2019 at 10:09am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote>
<script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>andrew-parkHello!Final mix done!2019-06-27T11:00:00+02:002019-06-27T11:00:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/06/27/mix-done<p>We have arrived at the final mix! Thanks <strong><a href="http://bjorn.li/">Björn</a></strong> for your patience and work on this music. I think we have went through about 4-5 versions so it’s been a few weeks of back and forth, listening and finding a good sound as well as some touch-ups here and there. My thinking around the mixing was that I wanted it to be quite raw sounding. Not to much of a makeover in terms of effects and the alike but more focus on the levels. And I think it’s fair to say that this was the result (even though there certainly are some FX). I’m looking forward to sharing it and I’m working on making some small preview-snippets from the music to share here, perhaps with some video but I haven’t decided on how to do that yet and whether it’s a good idea to put anything at all out there before it’s been mastered (?).</p>
<p>As the music is approaching being completed I need to start working on how, where and in what way to release the music. This more “business”-like side of the project is not something I feel nearly as confident in as the actual music-creation/playing (not suprisingly). I’ll have to do some research on what could be a good approach and pick the brains of some friends who have more experience in this as well. Currently I’m thinking to make a digital release, perhaps one or a few individual songs at first and then the whole album. I think I’ll probably send some music around to traditional labels but also online distribution services. Another thing that I really would like to investigate is whether it’s possible to send it to people in the film-industry. Much of the music is quite film-like and a childhood dream for me has been to make film or game music so why not at least try…</p>
<p>Anyway, the next immediate step is mastering and in the next post I’ll share about that and perhaps some more updates on the other stuff I mentioned. Also, I’m still working on some of the song-titles.. I’ve got a bunch of ideas but I feel that it is too embarrassing to share them, I’m suspecting though, that when it comes to names I cannot escape feeling embarrassed: [too cheesy? too pretentious? too simple? too weird? … ]. No way out. Well I guess I could just call them 1,2,3 .. but that’s just too boring. Over n out</p>
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<p><em>Björn Lindberg at Rabbit Hole Studios</em></p>
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</div>andrew-parkWe have arrived at the final mix! Thanks Björn for your patience and work on this music. I think we have went through about 4-5 versions so it’s been a few weeks of back and forth, listening and finding a good sound as well as some touch-ups here and there. My thinking around the mixing was that I wanted it to be quite raw sounding. Not to much of a makeover in terms of effects and the alike but more focus on the levels. And I think it’s fair to say that this was the result (even though there certainly are some FX). I’m looking forward to sharing it and I’m working on making some small preview-snippets from the music to share here, perhaps with some video but I haven’t decided on how to do that yet and whether it’s a good idea to put anything at all out there before it’s been mastered (?).Onto Mixing2019-06-05T11:00:00+02:002019-06-05T11:00:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/06/05/onto-mixing<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I’ve had a little break from the blogging and it’s been a while since I posted. Time to start writing again. My last post entitled “Recording finished” (really just photos) might have suggested that the whole thing is done. But ofcourse it now needs to be mixed and mastered. I did think about mixing it myself but I disregarded that idea pretty quickly for many reasons. Firstly I do not have much experience in that and it feels much better to have it done by someone more experienced, secondly it takes time and thirdly its just nice to involve more people I think. Also, after spending so much time with the material I think it is easy to get bored of the songs and in some ways that would lower the bar of the work. That’s why I think its good also that different people do recording and mixing. And if I were to try and mix it myself I would probably get bored right from the beginning as I’ve had the songs on repeat for the better part of the spring.</p>
<p>Anyway I’m happy to announce that I found someone to do the mixing about two weeks ago and that person is <strong><a href="http://bjorn.li/">Björn Lindberg</a></strong> at Rabbit Hole Studios in Malmö. I’ve been acquainted with Björn for some years through mutual friends, so I’m really looking forward to the mixing process the coming few weeks. And funny enough his studio is just a few hundred meters from where I grew up =). I’ll try to keep you updated on how it goes! Maybe I can even share some audio-clip-peaks.</p>
<p>Now onto something else. Another thing that I really need to address now is: names. I have yet to come up with a name for what the propject/recording shall be called. That goes for a lot of the songs as well. If there is a condition called titling-procrastination I probably have it. And why did I choose to name myself magicjohan on instagram? - no idea… Anyway I need to do that - I need a name for the project, titles for many of the songs. Ofcourse if anyone reading this have a good name idea I’m happy to out-source this task. I think I will write a post just on trying to find names for everything. It is much like lyrics, I’ve rarely had the experience of writing lyrics that I like and to be honest, I often don’t listen as attentive to the lyrics of music but rather the instruments and vibe of the whole thing. Maybe that’s why my music is instrumental mostly. Not to say I dislike lyrics thouugh…</p>
<p>Ok, so there is mixing, mastering and finding names. What more? Well I need to decide on how to release the music and in what format… Vinyl, digital, cd, mini-disc, cassete, pathé cylinder.. I think it’s safe to say that it will be digitally released. It would be fun to get together some artwork and/or videos too. But what I hope ultimately is that it becomes easy and available to those who want to listen to it.</p>
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<p><strong>Video</strong> : 32 GB of music off to be mixed</p>
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<script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>andrew-parkHello!Recording finished!2019-05-21T12:28:00+02:002019-05-21T12:28:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/05/21/recording-finished<div class="grayscale">
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</div>andrew-parkDay 2 in the studio2019-05-06T08:28:00+02:002019-05-06T08:28:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/05/06/studio-day2<p>The first (of two) recording-weekends finished! The second day we continued with both recording the bases for the songs as well as doing lots of overdubbing. It feels like we got a lot done this first weekend and managed to come a long way on 10 songs! One or two of them are probably completed altogether. I’m really happy also that Karolina Almgren could join in on soprano saxophone on one of the songs. For most of the songs, we record a kind of base on duo/trio setting and then add on instruments afterwards. For a few of them however, we recorded everyone together - like the one Karolina joined in on. Alfred also joined to record piano on four songs.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed the experience and feel happy with what we achieved so far and I’m obviously really grateful for everyone who took part. Being so immersed and focused is intense and I was quite exhausted afterwards I must say. So I’ll take few breaths now and then continue on =). Next up will be overseeing what we have done so far and preparing for how to best use next weekends recording. I think I might do a few adjustments here and there. I think its good to have a few days here between recording sessions because I get a chance to make some changes based on how these last two days went. Next weekend I will be joined by Anna (cello) and Daniel (baritone clarinet / saxophone), so really looking forward to that.</p>
<p>Thanks to:</p>
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Hannes Olbers
Jonas Jönsson
Alfred Strand
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<p>for joining this weekend!</p>
<p>Here’s a few photos from the second day:</p>
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<p><em>Hannes, James and Karolina</em></p>
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<p><em>Jonas and Johan</em></p>
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<p><em>Alfred and Jonas</em></p>
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</div>andrew-parkThe first (of two) recording-weekends finished! The second day we continued with both recording the bases for the songs as well as doing lots of overdubbing. It feels like we got a lot done this first weekend and managed to come a long way on 10 songs! One or two of them are probably completed altogether. I’m really happy also that Karolina Almgren could join in on soprano saxophone on one of the songs. For most of the songs, we record a kind of base on duo/trio setting and then add on instruments afterwards. For a few of them however, we recorded everyone together - like the one Karolina joined in on. Alfred also joined to record piano on four songs.Day 3 & 4 in the studio2019-05-06T08:28:00+02:002019-05-06T08:28:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/05/06/studio-day34<p>Hello. We have now finished the second weekend in the studio!</p>
<p>The past weekend we did much of the ground work for many of the songs and so this weekend has been mostly spent adding to the present recordings. I was joined by my friend Anna who plays cello on many of the songs. It was a lot of fun to start to hear everything come together and I think the cello brings a lot to the music. Actually, the majority of the time this weekend was spent on recording Anna. After that we continued to record guitar and bass clarinet. On that note, I realize there is one person I have yet to introduce in the previous posts. So here it comes - joining on bass clarinet is my friend and great player Daniel Örtegren:</p>
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<p>I got to know Daniel when we studied jazz together some years ago and have played many times together since. I’ve always loved his playing and vibe so I’m really happy he could join in. This time on clarinet as he mostly plays saxophone otherwise.</p>
<p>Back to the recording. We also did some guitar recordings.. I got to record all three of my main guitars. Acoustic, electric and baritone electic. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to record everything so me and Jonas will join together later in the week to record the last bits i.e. more guitar :). And to top it of I also had the pleasure have Martin (see pic below) put some nice guitar backup behind a solo. Thanks Martino.</p>
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<p><em>Martin</em></p>
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<p>This (big) part of the project is coming to an end and now starts another. Next up will be things like mixing, mastering, release form and many more things I’m certain. All things I will continue to write here and share about. But before I start writing about that we just need to finish all the recording. Until then I’ll again share some photos.</p>
<p>Thanks to:</p>
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Jonas Jönsson
Daniel Örtegren
Martin Lindell Gilleberg
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<p>for joining this weekend!</p>
<p>Here’s a few photos:</p>
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<p><em>Anna and Jonas</em></p>
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<p><em>Jonas and Anna</em></p>
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<p><em>Anna, Johan and Jonas</em></p>
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<p><em>Daniel</em></p>
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<p><em>Listening…</em></p>
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</div>andrew-parkHello. We have now finished the second weekend in the studio!Day 1 in the studio2019-05-05T08:28:00+02:002019-05-05T08:28:00+02:00http://localhost:4000/test/2019/05/05/studio-day1<p>Hello!</p>
<p>It is now sunday morning and we have yesterday had the first day of recording!</p>
<p>We are making the recording at <strong><a href="https://www.tambourinestudios.com/">Tambourine Studios</a></strong>. A big thanks to Jonas Jönsson (sound engineer) who we have the great pleasure to work with.</p>
<p>So, I am really happy with how the first day went and we managed to at least start on and lay the basis for 6 songs. It was myself, James (bass) and Hannes (drums). The songs we focused on were the ones that have a bit more jazz in them and I played about as much acoustic guitar as piano this day.</p>
<p>I’ll share more details about the studio later but now it is time to go back to the studio :)</p>
<p>I’ll leave you with some pictures from the day!</p>
<p>See you soon / Johan</p>
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<p><em>Jonas</em></p>
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<p><em>James</em></p>
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<p><em>James and Hannes</em></p>
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<p><em>Johan and Hannes</em></p>
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<p><em>Johan and James</em></p>
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<p><em>Johan and Jonas</em></p>
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<p><em>James</em></p>
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<p><em>Hannes and a little bit of James</em></p>
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<p><em>Johan, James and Hannes</em></p>
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