The music video for Linnea Olsson's "Never Again," premiered today via Magnet. This video is the second to be released from the Swedish cellist's debut album, Ah!, and was directed by Joakim Andersson. You can watch the video HERE..
Olsson wrapped up a successful North American tour with fellow Swede, Ane Brun, this past weekend in Los Angeles. "Olsson's playing was both adept and sincere," said Gapers Block of her sold out Chicago performance, "She has a way of coordinating all of her various song elements on cello so that it conjures up the sense of a lush Brahm's symphony. Her playing was not just technically realized but also quite emotionally realized too." The tour itself fell at the heels of the U.S. album release. Ah! is an album constructed simply from Olsson's voice and her cello. Only in one song does she have accompaniment, and it comes in the form of a Middle Eastern goblet drum called a darbuka that Olsson discovered through good friend (and producer of the album) Fredrik "Gicken" Johannson. Throughout the release the two elements of cello and voice are warped and bent by the delay modeler and loop station that Olsson cherishes as integral parts of her music. "I abuse delay," she says. "It is my favorite effect of all time." The New York Times states, "With this album, Ms. Olsson joins the international ranks of loop enthusiasts-songwriters like Andrew Bird, Theresa Andersson, Ana Laan and Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards-whose ingenious methods disappear into their songs."Videos