Phonocratic Records

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.

Welcome to the new Phonocratic Records site. As you might have noticed, the old site at phonocratic.tk haven’t had any updates this year. That’s because I have silently been moving here to phonocratic.com. At the same time I have shifted the whole site into a wordpress-based publishing system, which means that in the future I can focus on delivering content, not on writing HTML. I think this will turn out to be handy.

I also announce that the Lost Shadow forum will be taken down later this year. It has not been much of a success, and is mostly unused nowadays. As it will be possible to comment on every articles here, the forum’s role seems to have disappeared. I encourage you to discuss the news items posted on phonocratic.com. This site will also have an RSS-feed, so you can keep yourself up to date with Lost Shadow using your favorite RSS-reader.

This new site will focus on Lost Shadow, but also contain material from Avoid, House Mouse, Johan Bengtsson and The Alvedons. Most of the information that was found on the old site has been transferred here, feel free to contact me if there is something you’re missing!

I have also decided to make most of my music available from last.fm. Unfortunately, I cannot upload covers of other artists’ songs, but still there is more than ten albums available that you can download for free. If you like them, please consider a donation or to join the friends of Lost Shadow (can be done in the store).

In a few days a new single will be out, called Pirate Bay, to celebrate this new site. I will soon submit it to last.fm, and will tell you here when it is released. Until then, keep it up, and enjoy the new site!