Per Malmberg: Vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, accordion, mandolin and percussion. /
Stefan Gavik: Electric and acoustic guitars. /
Johan Lindqvist: Keyboards. /
Fredrik Lindqvist: Bass. /
Lasse Bolin: Drums and percussion.
Influences
Everything....almost.
Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Marillion, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Jimi Hendrix etc. etc.
The long lasting friendship of lead guitarist Stefan and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Per goes way back to the early 80's when they were about seven or eight years old. Their meeting, however, had nothing to do with music. They were both on the same handball team and have been friends ever since. Growing up they found they shared a burning passion for music and formed their first band, "Snigeln välter", in their teens. The emphasis of the music in these days was put on hard rock and heavy metal.
In "gymnasiet" (the Swedish equivalent to high school) Per met keyboard player Johan through mutual friends. They gelled instantly and Per persuaded Johan to join the band as well. In their late teens they felt it was time to make some money off of the music so they started playing cover-songs on the live circuit of south western Sweden (pubs, clubs, parties etc.) with great success. To this day they are still performing in this manner (under the "Stämband"-moniker) and have been doing so since 1992.
The Salva-project had been the brain-child of Per for many years but it didn't become a reality until 2003 when he, Johan and Stefan decided to form the band. As a three-piece with Per handling the bass-playing, drum programming and percussion in addition to his regular instrument arsenal they started recording what was to become their debut album.
"A handful of earth" was released on Perand KB Records in the autumn of 2004 and instantly started getting very favorable reviews throughout the prog rock community. Distribution deals were soon struck with Caerllysi Music in the UK, Progress Records in Sweden and Big Balloon Music in the US and sales took off from there.
In 2005 the three decided it was time to start working on their second album. The initial plan from the start was for Salva to be a "full band" which resulted in the quest for a permanent drummer and a permanent bass player. They didn't have to look far. Johan's younger brother, Fredrik is a gifted bassplayer who had been playing with Johan, Stefan and Per in other constellations and drummer Lasse is an old school friend whos musical path has crossed the others several times as well. They both agreed to join the band and work began on what was to become "Left to burn".
The writing, once again mostly done by Per but with occasional musical assistance from Stefan, went pretty smoothly but the recording sessions proved to be quite tormenting. With tons of technical problems and several changes in studio locations and recording technicians the band decided to finish the recordings on their own in their own studios.
As we enter 2007, the new album "Left to burn" is finally out. To the bands extreme delight, I might add.
As always, it's very hard to put labels on music, especially when looking at it from "the inside", but the closest would probably be to describe Salva's music as symphonic hard rock with occasional folk tendencies and maybe a splash of jazz once in a while. The focus of Salva's music is always on melody first and foremost but they are certainly no strangers to technical flash or hard riffing if the moment is right.
Call it prog rock, call it neo prog, call it hard rock...hell, call it muzak...at the end of the day we just hope you will call it "good music".
hi! iam wolfgang the guitarist of dreamscape. we should learn to be the best persons we can be and our world will change. i try. but it's not as easy as playing guitar in a high class band...
H. Jackson Brown: Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
kind regards! DREAMSCAPE (progressive metal from germany) (new cd september 2009! - buy or let die!)
hi! iam wolfgang the guitarist of dreamscape. we are part of your myspace family.
"You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love. who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." O.W.
we follow our passion! we love to make music with dreamscape! what's about your dreams?
kind regards and a happy new year! DREAMSCAPE (progressive metal from germany) (new cd spring 2009!)
Merry Christmas Salva! When's the new music coming out? Hopefully sometime in the new year. Looking forward listening to what you have been putting together!
I haven't been on the computer too much lately - life sometimes gets so busy! I'll have to try and stop by more often ;)
I do hope you are working on some new music for the world to enjoy. I've been adding so much music to my collection lately that I haven't been able to listen to it all.
Nice little band from the UK - The Pineapple Thief - is playing now. I like the sound (not as good as Salva, of course) but their latest album, What We Have Sown, has some nice sounds.
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