Eerie Caffler

The Eerie Caffler project started sometime/somewhere during the early month of year 2000 maybe earlier without anyone noticed it. For a long time I had an idea and a need to make some music and lyrics in some kind of own musical project. In the summer of year 2000 I started to write some new songs and rewrite a couple of old ones that I felt didn..t really fit into my main band at the time, Quo Vadis, Domine. I actually wrote two of them, Deus Deseptur and Mind Odyssey for Quo Vadis, Domine but they didn..t sound the way I wanted them to, so I decided to rewrite them and use them in another musical project instead. Later that summers Quo Vadis, Domine split up after a long unproductive spring and summer time.
I was already working on what would be Eerie Caffers first demo, I decided to try something new for the project. My idea was to form a band with floating line-up and musical direction. I thought the name Panta Rei (everything floats, after the philosopher Herakleitos theory) would be a perfect name on a band that constantly would change style and line-up. I noticed very soon that Panta Rei was a quite popular band name, so I decided to find something more unique. In an Irish text I found the word caffler, it meant young patron or small thief, another explanation I have found on the word is. Caffler; a contemptible little fellow who gives saucy cheeky foolish talk. Probably a mispronunciation of caviller. (Munster.). I thought it was a funny word and liked it because it sounded like a surname. The word eerie just appeared by it self, the name Eerie Caffler was discovered. A band name that sounded just like a persons name on a band that actually is a one man solo project, I thought that..s it!
Late autumn year 2000 I started to recorded the demo, I played all instruments except for the drums played by Kristoffer Westam (the drummer in the band Jubie) and the percussion played Erland Olsson (the ex. Quo Vadis, Domine drummer). Claudia Gonzalez (the ex. singer in Quo Vadis, Domine) appeared on Deus Deseptur and I Still Remember. Hans Savelli, another old Quo Vadis, Domine member helped me during the recording, he examined my lyrics.
During the recording I was discussing and planing many interesting things with other musicians for the demo, sadly there was a lot of work that just ran out in the sand and delayed the demo. The recording was problematic and took very long time and wasn..t finessed until October 2001, almost a year after that the recording started. The song I Still Remember was about three, maybe four years old then, and the intro on it even older so it felt like a big relief when that demo was finessed.
Winter 2002, the work with the second Eerie Caffler demo ..Thoughts in Grey.. began. I manly worked with the same people on this recording as I did during the first one. Two new persons appeared during the recording, Christine Owman on cello and Daniel Tjernberg (the webmaster on this site) made the cover art. The songs and the lyrics were written during the recording of the first demo, except Without Belief, that is actually an old rewritten Quo Vadis, Domine song. The recording took about six-month and was finessed in July 2002.
During the autumn 2002 I have mostly been playing and working with two other bands, Jubie (a space jam band in which I play bas in) and Moorgate (a hard rock band in which I play guitar in). But now it is time for Eerie Caffler again, the recording of a new demo started some days ago (2003-01-08) and the music will be more experimental, eerier and hopefully better than ever before.