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The Grand Opening

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About Me

BEYOND THE BRIGHTNESS
April 4th is the release date of the new album "Beyond the Brightness" by The Grand Opening. The basic tracks for the album were recorded at the movie theatre in Ånge during the summer and then additional recordings at my home, the Möregatan Studio and Fryshuset. Jens Pettersson played the drums, Bo Anders Ljung played Wurlitzer, Johanna Ojala sang some backing vocals and I did the rest. Linus Larsson mixed the album in his new house at Hogrän, Gotland. Henrik Jonsson at Masters of Audio mastered. Beyond the Brightness is released by our label TAPETE RECORDS and distributed by DOTSHOP in Scandinavia and INDIGO in Germany, Austria, Switzerland.
Order the album:
Dotshop (World)
Tapete Records (GER)
Glitterhouse Records (GER)
Kartel Music (PL)
itsatrap! (US)
Ginza (SWE)
CDON (SWE)
Bengans (SWE)
Skivhugget (SWE)
Megastore (SWE)
Townsend Records (UK)
Zavvi (UK)
Reviews:
itsatrap! (English)
Popconnection (German)
Mainstage (German)
Helga-Rockt.de (German)
Rote Raupe (German)
Nordische Musik (German)
Sonic Magazine (Swedish)
Dagbladet (Swedish)
Sundsvalls Tidning (Swedish)
Länstidningen Östersund (Swedish)
Nöjesguiden (Swedish)
Find us also at virb.com/thegrandopening , purevolume.com/thegrandopening and www.tgomusic.com .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/11/2005
Band Website: tgomusic.com
Band Members: John Roger Olsson
Johanna Ojala
Jens Pettersson

Sometimes also:
Bo Anders Ljung
Leif Elverstig
Joakim Labraaten
Influences: Wes Anderson
Talk Talk
Daniel Lanois
Jim O'Rourke
Sounds Like: Linus Larsson
Record Label: tapeterecords.de
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A late "back from the tour" post.

Hello people. We are back from the tour. A big thanks to all folks involved and that showed up in the audience. Hope to see you soon again! Our good friend Christoph in Stuttgart took some really...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:58:00 PST

Another tourpost.

Hello People.We've had some good gigs the last few days. Raststätte, Nun and Kulturrampe were all really good. Tonight we're gonna play at D:qliq in Luxembourg. It's really nice to be back here. It's ...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Thu, 29 May 2008 08:24:00 PST

We are on tour!

Hello folks. We are on tour and these are the dates left:26/05/08 Aachen (GER) @ Raststätte27/05/08 Karlsruhe (GER) @ Nun28/05/08 Krefeld (GER) @ Kulturrampe29/05/08 Luxembourg (LUX) @ D:qliq30/05/08 ...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:33:00 PST

itsatrap! and popconnection reviews.

 The Grand Opening - Beyond the brightness(Tapete Records) 8After having first found The Grand Opening through the netlabel here a couple of years ago, I thought I had an idea of what they sound...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:05:00 PST

A swedish interview and a german review

Sundsvalls Tidning: http://www.st.nu/noje/index.php?action=visa_artikel&id=72434 3 Intro.de: http://www.intro.de/platten/kritiken/23048158/the_grand_open ing_beyond_the_brightness...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

Review in ST

Subtilt och stämningsfulltBeyond the brightnessdotshop.seSUNDSVALL (ST) 2008-04-12 03:00The Grand OpeningBeyond the brightness är en stämningsmässigt mörk platta, vilket kanske titeln avslöjar. Det ha...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:44:00 PST

Free download and some nice words

Head over to www.itsatrap.com to download "Dark dark Dawn" from the new album and read a bit about the track.
Posted by The Grand Opening on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:29:00 PST

Sonic Magazine and Mainstage reviews

THE GRAND OPENING Beyond the Brightness Tapete/Dotshop.se Betyg: 7 Andra chansen.    När The Grand Opening släppte sitt debutalbum för två år sedan kallade jag dem i en recension för »den kr...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:49:00 PST

Album of the week!

Beyond the Brightness is album of the week at www.helga-rockt.de. German readers check this out: http://www.helga-rockt.de/plattentellerDetails.php?id=938 (The rest of you can use babelfish like I do....
Posted by The Grand Opening on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:17:00 PST

Thank you, BUY THE NEW ALBUM and more interviews

Thank you to all the lovely people showing up at the releaseparty yesterday! We appreciate it alot and had a really good time.There are two more interviews online: Östersunds Posten and Dagbladet.Orde...
Posted by The Grand Opening on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:14:00 PST