Kalendervägen 113.D
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Kalendervägen 113.D is a bonus EP included with the initial pre-order copies of Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman
Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. The English lyrics reflect an advanced knowledge of the language and its idioms...

's 2007 album Night Falls Over Kortedala
Night Falls Over Kortedala
Night Falls Over Kortedala is the second full length release by Swedish pop singer Jens Lekman. Announced on 25 July 2007, and advertised on Lekman's website as a "a collection of recordings 2004-2007", the album was released in Scandinavia on the label Service on 5 September 2007 and worldwide on...

. It is a stripped-down 7-track medley of songs from Night Falls... as well as a Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...

 cover from Graceland
Graceland (album)
Graceland was Paul Simon's highest charting album in the U.S. in over a decade, reaching #3 in the national Billboard charts, receiving a certification of 5× Platinum by the RIAA and eventually selling over 14 million copies, making it Simon's most commercially successful album...

 and two unreleased songs 'The Rain Has Got To Fall' and 'Our Last Swim In The Ocean'.

The title of the EP is in reference to the address of his old apartment in Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 where he recorded the EP by himself with a guitar and a loop pedal, as stated on the August 17, 2007 entry on his website.


"I'm slowly moving out of my old apartment to be homeless for a few months, and for the bonus cd I recorded a handful of songs as a last concert for these old brick walls. This is the cd you get if you've pre-ordered the album. It's called Kalendervägen 113.D and it has two unreleased songs on it "The Rain Has Got To Fall" and "Our Last Swim In The Ocean" as well as a couple of songs from Night Falls... and a Paul Simon song from Graceland I thought was suitable. It's me, a guitar and a loop pedal, nothing else. For those of you who prefer it more au naturale."

Track listing

  1. "Homeless" (Paul Simon cover)
  2. "The Rain Has Got to Fall"
  3. "Our Last Swim in the Ocean"
  4. "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
    Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
    "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo" is a Jens Lekman single taken from the 2007 album Night Falls Over Kortedala. 800 copies were released on 7" vinyl. The song also appears on the EP Kalendervägen 113.D-Track listing:...

    "
  5. "A Postcard to Nina"
  6. "Shirin"
  7. "I Am Leaving You Because I Don't Love You"

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