Sulonen

In English:
THE BEGINNING/EVOLUTION
Sulonen started out in the year 2006, playing music inspired by the Swedish 70’s rock scene. The idea came to life as two mates (Nils Bark and Linus Nyman) had a couple of pints and played guitar/sang songs. The more beer they had, the better the idea of founding a band sounded. They agreed it needed to be done!
They weren’t alone on the project for long. Friends Simon Gustafsson, Mumin Jämsén and Mikael “Mad Mike” Palmfjord teamed up soon enough, and together they decided that the Swedish protest rock scene was all but dead – it had just been sleeping, they reckoned. Ergo, the first Sulonen line-up (the band was called Godare än Fläsk back then) was born:
Nils Bark – Guitar
Mad Mike Palmfjord – Bass guitar
Mumin Jämsén – Keyboards
Simon Gustafsson – Clarinet and Drums
Linus Nyman – Vocals
That set didn’t last for long, seeing how it turned out to be rather difficult for Simon to handle the drums as well as playing his clarinet. Along came Anders “The Wiz” Brinkman to save the day! With a proper drummer onboard the band could continue to grow without having to consider constant flaws within the rhythm section. It worked out nicely until the band faced a major setback – guitarist and beloved founder Nils decided that the music wasn’t really his first priority and left the band to pick up studying.
Mike picked up the guitar, and after searching for some time after a new bassist they found him in Viktor “Ickoo” Karlsson. The show went on. The band now switched name to Sulonen, and kept writing new songs enjoying life just as much. The music grew steadily tighter due to personal improvement, but also because of Ickoos arrival. His funky touch coloured every tune in his way, and everything felt brilliant! Until Mike decided that military duty was his way to go, thus leaving the band. New guitarist wanted!
The blokes continued to make music, now shifting language (to English) and sound. They experimented with a darker, more bar oriented, funky sound without any guitars. They never felt like it was their way to go, though, and questions like “shall we quit” started arising. No one wanted to do so, instead they decided to look for a new guitarist. “The Wiz” worked his magic and came up with a chap called Jesper “Jazz” Hentula. He played the other band members a sample of Jazz shredding away. They all loved it and Jazz was IN!
THE PRESENT DAYS
Sulonen is a pop/rock band with its feet covered in most of everything and LSD. The particular brand of music is therefore, if even possible, very hard to pinpoint – seeing how everyone in the band has their different influences the songs take shape accordingly. The songs pretty much all sound different, but they also carry that one indefinable thing that makes every song sound like it belongs within the unity.
Some call it heart.
We call it Sulonen.
LOVE!
(based on a true biography, only the names n events have been changed)
(The picture above portraits the original line-up, and it's taken at our second gig ever. Quite a few things has happened since then! From the left: Simon Gustafsson, Micke Palmfjord, Linus Nyman and Nils Bark)