Page is a Swedish

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....

 synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band. Page is often credited with being the first band to bring synthpop music to Sweden. Their music and band members (particularly Eddie Bengtsson) influenced many subsequent Swedish synthpop acts, including Elegant Machinery

Elegant Machinery

Elegant Machinery is a Swedish synthpop band. Borrowing heavily from the likes of Depeche Mode, they are one of few recent bands dedicated to making traditional synthpop music...

, S.P.O.C.K

S.P.O.C.K

S.P.O.C.K is a Swedish synthpop-band which formed around 1988.-Background:The band's original lineup was songwriter Eddie Bengtsson , Finn Albertsson, and vocalist Alexander Hofman...

, Sista Mannen På Jorden

Sista Mannen På Jorden

Sista Mannen På Jorden or SMPJ is a Swedish synthpop group formed in 1986 by Eddie Bengtsson and Matts Wiberg. In 2004, Wiberg left the band and was replaced by Christer Hermodsson of S.P.O.C.K in 2005.- Background :...

 and KieTheVez.

Formed in 1980 by Eddie Bengtsson and Marina Schiptjenko

Marina Schiptjenko

Anna Marina Schiptjenko is the only female member of the Swedish electronic pop group Bodies Without Organs . Her mother is Swedish but her father was a Ukrainian refugee from the Soviet Union, thus her Ukrainian surname.She started her music career in the eighties, joining the synthpop band Page...

, soon joined by Anders Eliasson, the band quickly gained underground cult-status releasing many singles such as Dansande man, Som skjuten ur en kanon, Blå fötter and Som en vind. Though most of their important influential work was released in the 1980s their first album, the self titled Page, was released in 1991. Page continued releasing music throughout the 90's but is still most fondly remembered in the Swedish synthpop scene for their early singles, especially Dansande Man. Though the band has never officially disbanded, it has been remarkably quiet since a performance at SEMA (Swedish Electronic Music Awards) in 1999 when the band promised nothing new would ever be released under the name Page. However, a compilation covering their two decades of work was released in 2000.

After a decade of silence, in 2010 Page released an album of newly recorded material called Nu, and performed two tracks live on Swedish TV show Nyhetsmorgon

Nyhetsmorgon

Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....

in May 2010. The album reached number 34 on the official swedish album chart Sverigetopplistan following its release.

Full-length albums

• • Page (1991)
  • Hallå (var tog månbasen vägen?) (1994)
  • Lost tapes (1994)
  • Glad (1995)
  • Hur så? (1996)
  • Helt nära (1998)
  • Nu (2010)

Singles

• • Dansande man / Aldrig mer (1984)
  • Som skjuten ur en kanon (1987)
  • Blå fötter (1987)
  • Som en vind (1989)
  • Bilmusik (1994)
  • Förlåt (1995)
  • Jag väntar (1995)
  • Står i din väg (1996)
  • Hur mår du? (1994)
  • Svänger (1994)
  • På ett berg (1994)
  • Ibland (1997)
  • Ingenting kvar (1994)
  • Som det var (1999)