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Oskar Schönning

About Me

Live from a boat in Sava, Belgrade, 9 august 2007:


The band Oskar Schnning came into being at a club called Nardis sometime June of 2002, in the town of stersund, Sweden. Nardis had been founded by Oskar and some of his friends, allowing for spontaneous projects and groups to get together and perform their music. This, one must mention, would not have been possible without Ingrid Persson at Ett Rum och Kk. The club housed everything from bands like Kampus and Nyfors with their punk-like delivery, to the sounds of jazz veterans Krister Andersson and Lasse Hrnfeldt. The "embryo" of this group came about through a project Oskar and Emil Strandberg set in motion named Heroes and Villains, combining their respective instruments of bass and trumpet with an array of electronics. They were joined on one piece by dobro player Anders Kronlund and in the course of that number understood that this was meant to become a trio. About a year later the group reassembled, having allowed for that passage / occurrence of time which brings about the seeds and birth of new songs. This time they were to record (live at Nardis), leading to the very rare release of Oskar Schnning's first EP entitled Heroes and Villains.In the summer of 2003, drummer Sebastian Voegler and pianist Jonas stholm were to hear the trio, and soon joined as members of the progressively growing orchestra. By now almost all it's members were residing in Stockholm. This was the group to record Oskar Schnning's second EP entitled Love Songs. Several concerts were done with this constellation, and in late fall of that year saxophonist Nils Berg joined the band to play clarinets and harmonica. The debut album on BonnieraAmigo was released 2004. Another EP called "Subsoil", was released in 2005 and the second longplayer "Happy jazz, please" was released the third of May 2006.More music has been written and recorded during 2007. One two-track double single was released in march 2007, and the planning of a full length-album (or book!?) 2008 is going on.Visit the official website!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/19/2006
Band Website: oskarschonning.com
Band Members: Nils Berg, Clarinet Jonas Östholm, Piano Oskar Schönning, Double bass Sebastian Voegler, Drums
Influences: Too many. Can't help listen to music.
Sounds Like: "musikalische hötorgskonst"Listen to one of the tunes here. Download it in CD-quality at www.oskarschonning.com and buy your fly-interzone-designed cover kit.To find our two longplayers, please visit www.cdon.com (Europe) or www.itsatrap.com (US) to get your own copies. Hope you'll enjoy!You can find the albums as downloads on Itunes or cdon as well. If you, for some reason, don't want to support this companies, please send us a message and we'll supply you with the music you want!Best Regards/ The band.
Record Label: Schönning Records and BonnierAmigo
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Dresscode: Red

Are you entering a stage tomorrow (friday Sep 28)? Or are you going to a concert? Dress red to support the protests against the regime in Burma.About the main campaign:http://www.watsonblogs.org/mak/2...
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:35:00 PST

Giant fiction

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Posted by Oskar Schönning on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:27:00 PST

The Balkan Stories

We're heading for Serbia to perform live, record some music and listen to the Balkan Stories...The Balkan Stories Lägg till i min Profil | Fler videoklipp...
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 01:03:00 PST

Record hunting!

Record Hunter in Stockholm is a nice store. You can find our new single exclusive there, and also get a course in Fold-A-Matic!
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:35:00 PST

Fold-A-Matic party!

Tomorrow we celebrate the double-single that we released last week. A livegig at Teater Scenario in Stockholm wiyhh ten new tunes. Afterwards we fold together. Extra suprise for the 20 first buyers of...
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:26:00 PST

Manifest 2007!

The Schönning Group has dedicated itself to a persistent breaking with styles since 2002. Nowadays the group is a quartet and the theme of the year is Nina Simone's recording of the old Donaldsons and...
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:22:00 PST

We play in the virtual world! (sic!) From old vinyl-nerds to web-heroes, what a transformation.

Will be fun though. To get there, you have to become an avatar. It will take you a couple of minutes but will hopefully be worth it. See instructions on www.secondsweden.se (in swedish) or www.secondl...
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:15:00 PST

Valentine's day... we will co-operate.

We're proud to launch a new site, showing parts of our upcoming collaboration with the irresistible ladies in Stockholm Strings. We will try to perform our nu-romantics live this autumn....
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

Manifest!

Happy jazz is nominated for the manifestprice in sweden! (alternative grammy)
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:37:00 PST

More reviews here!

Reviews, "Happy jazz please" (2006)Reviews, "Oskar Sch..nning"(2004)
Posted by Oskar Schönning on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:36:00 PST