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Bobby Sant

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General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Blues / Country

    Location Sv

    Profile Views: 22663

    Last Login: 4/18/2013

    Member Since 10/19/2006

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9Cb2JieS1TYW50LzIyMzE0MjczMTA0MDcxMA==

    Record Label Sakuntala records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Swedish songwriter Bobby Sant's debut album "It's just a lonely feeling" (Transsubstans) echoes of the American country icons Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Johnny Cash, but also of the contemporary indie/folk scene. When Sant performed in an old church during the Swedish music industry festival Live at Heart in September 2011, it was the first time a bigger audience could hear the songs from the album. One of those tracks, "Stuck on Townes", is a nod to the beforementioned Townes Van Zandt. Townes' daughter, the photographer Katie Van Zandt, has contributed the photos for this album's cover. Bobby Sant has with his debut compiled a highly acoustic track list infused both with sensitive awareness and a considerable amount of punk attitude. Except for small guest contributions of piano, harmonica and electric guitars, the songs is entirely about Sant's sharp, chanting vocals, rooted somewhere between dark blues and dreamy folk music, and his fingerpicked guitar. Bobby Sant stands alone in the songs as well as in the studio and the desolation is a significant theme going through the whole album. The desolation created after the ones you've left behind, but also in the missing of the ones you haven't met yet and of the situations not yet experienced. "Music is life and death for me, literally. I think I'm a person seeing the world in black or white. The grey parts just don't interest me" "It's just a lonely feeling" is rooted in a blend between ancient folk and the contemporary indie scene in a similar way as acts like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Fleet Foxes. Sants' songs might not feature any lush vocal harmony arrangements but is still creating a highly intense and dreamy soundscape. And like two other big names in the genre, the fellow Swede The Tallest Man on Earth and Kentucky's Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Sant lets his songs be built up by battered and broken elements as well as sincere and tender ones. Katie Van Zandt, photographer, artist and daughter of late Townes Van Zandt has taken the photos for the album's cover, which likewise Sants' music is picturing a shattered landscape. A desolated enviroment, rooted as much in the Swedish as in the American Middle West.

  • Members

    BOBBY.

  • Influences

    Hard life... Townes ,Bob, Woody...

  • Sounds Like

    Bobby Sant

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