Side projects
The Alvedons
The Alvedons is my more serious side project, even though we allow ourselves to have a lot of fun with music. We used to be three members; myself, Love Rönnelid and Jonatan Pontén, but the last year it has been only me and mr. Löve himself.
What kind of music we make differ. We often start off with something and ends up with a little bit of everything. Through the years we’ve tried doing rock, pop, bossa nova, fusion, jazz and even hard euro. The focus now is on a fusion between jazz and pop.
My role in the group is (like the other’s roles) multi-functional. I use to be the one who mixes it all together in the computer and tries reconnecting the cords when something doesn’t work. But I also do much of the drum programming, some of the keyboards, and a little bit of the bass playing. As well as I come up with ideas for songs.
We won the music contest Uppsala Musikskola’s Melodi-festival 2004! The song, called “Orange Lights” was performed by Cinna Gärdenfors.
AVOID
AVOID is one of my side projects. The group consists of four members; Rockar-Jill, Narko-Man, Endolphins and Martin Hanser.
Currently the band works on a radio-theater-musical, which is near finishing. This has been a long project that started back in 2002-2003, and now might seem the light of day in 2009. Check out the dedicated AVOID-site at: www.avoidonline.tk!
Johan Bengtsson
Johan Bengtsson is Lost Shadow’s real name. Under this real name I make artier music, some electronic and some more classically oriented (for strings or piano, mostly). Some of this material has been published on Last.fm.
My latest composition is called “After You, Keith” and is based on a sample from Keith Jarret’s Köln Concert.
House Mouse
My house-making alter ego. Lives in his studio (”Grandmother’s House”) with his mate Jansson Da Cat, and the Grandmother On The Stoned Mountain. Likes cheese a lot. Any similarity with a Swedish comic might be intended… I have recorded one song with Anders Bengtsson under this name, and made several remix contributions. Sometime I might put out a housy album under this name.
Aragorn
Aragron started off as a companion to DJ Faramir in 2001 or 2002. “DJ Faramir & Aragorn” sounds pretty cool, huh? Under the name Aragorn, I make dance music and dance remixes. I don’t use the Aragorn name very often nowadays, though sometimes I label remixes “Aragorn’s Dance Mix”.
Artists who have recorded at Phonocratic Records
Anders Bengtsson
My brother, an excellent song writer, and I decided to record one of his songs the Spring 2004. The song was called “The End Of The World” and sounds a bit like Pearl Jam’s “Riot Act”-album. On this production I did the recordning, mixing and producing. Anders played guitars and sung. I play bass and organ and did the drum programming. If anything more would come out from the studio I will keep you informed on the News section.
Recently, Anders have been in the studio recording guitars and vocals at regular intervals. Some of the finished demos can be heard at Last.fm.
Janne B
My father, who plays guitars on some of my songs, decided a couple of years ago to record an album with his own songs. I didn’t do much on this, I just gave him suggestions and advices, mostly about the software and hardware. The result was an interesting mix, based on experimental rock a la Robert Fripp with Terry Riley influences.
Visit his home page for two mp3 examples!
Love Rönnelid
My friend and co-member of the Alvedons, had to recorded “Kanyler & Freon” at Phonocratic Records in 2003. Almost all work on this song is his own. The only thing I did was to help him with the recordning of the vocal track, mostly by borrowing my studio equipment…