Klagopsalmer
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Klagopsalmer is the sixth album by Shining. It was released on June 30, 2009 by Osmose Productions
.
Track 4 is a cover of Seigmen
's Ohm (off the Total
album). Ohm is sung in Norwegian
, making it the only song not sung in Swedish
on the album.
Samplings on the album is from the 1979 documentary, Ett anständigt liv, by Stefan Jarl
.
Osmose Productions
Osmose Productions is a French independent record label created in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut, after he had spent three years running a small mail order company...
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Track 4 is a cover of Seigmen
Seigmen
Seigmen was a Norwegian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The bandname is derived from a Norwegian brand of candies, "Seigmenn". The band went from a hard-edged grunge-like style to a more dynamic sound with more ambient parts and use of synthesizers and various audio-effects.-Members:* Kim...
's Ohm (off the Total
Total (Seigmen album)
Total is the second album by Norwegian rock band Seigmen. The album came in three editions: the original edition on the 1:70, another on 1:70, with a bonus disc containing "Hjernen Er Alene", and an edition on the Voice of Wonders label...
album). Ohm is sung in Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, making it the only song not sung in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
on the album.
Samplings on the album is from the 1979 documentary, Ett anständigt liv, by Stefan Jarl
Stefan Jarl
Stefan Jarl is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. He made the Mods Trilogy, three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, They Call Us Misfits , A Respectable Life and Det sociala arvet...
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Track listing
- "Vilseledda barnasjälars hemvist" (Mislead Child-souls' Residence) – 6:39 (Niklas Kvarforth)
- "Plågoande o'helga plågoande" (Tormented Spirit, Oh Holy Tormented Spirit) – 6:49 (Kvarforth)
- "Fullständigt jävla död inuti" (Completely Fucking Dead Inside) – 8:02 (Graby, Kvarforth)
- "Ohm - Sommar med Siv" (Ohm - Summer with Sif) – 7:10 (Seigmen)
- "Krossade drömmar och brutna löften" (Crushed Dreams and Broken Promises) – 5:06
- "Total utfrysning" (Total Desolation) – 16:46 (Kvarforth, Huss)
Personnel
- Niklas Kvarforth – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarsElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
and concept - Fredric Gråby – lead and rhythm guitars
- Peter Huss – lead and rhythm guitars
- Andreas Larssen – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Rickard Schill – drums
- Marcus Pålsson – grand piano
- Linnea Olsson – celloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Margareta Olsson – violaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
- Birgit Huss – violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....