2008

WINTER

The Crash from Finland where here last week.

The Envelopes album is out now and it is getting great reviews.

Hideki Kaji has recorded two songs for a
Japanese movie together with eggstone.

Per has mixed the new Doktor Kosmos album.

Norvegian Elvira has spent a few weeks here recording her second album with Per.

2007

AUTUMN

TBG (Tremolo Beer Gut) have recorded a new dual mono album.

Best swedish drummer ever, Janne "Loffe" Carlsson, recorded a few tracks for Pugh Rogerfeldts new album, produced by Martin Axen.

Per produced a song with Sidse Holte for the Danish Melodi Grand Prix.

 

SPRING

Per is currently in the studio producing British band The Research.

The Good Shoes album 'Think Before You Speak' was released in March and entered the English Independent top 30 at number 2. Their second single 'Never Meant To Hurt You' was number 1 at the NME charts in March.

Envelopes have finished mixing their album and it has been mastered. Their first single 'Smoke In The Desert, Eating The Sand, Hide In The Grass' will be released on April 30.

Patrik spent three weeks in March recording with Montys Loco in the studio he founded about a year ago in Ondangwa, Namibia.

Nina Persson was here for an evening recording her part of a duet with Svante Thuresson and Plura.

And finally we want to congratulate The Ark on winning the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest with 'The Worrying Kind' and we want to wish them good luck in the final on May 12 in Helsinki!

 

JANUARY

And it's a new year again!

Good Shoes released their first single 'The Photos on My Wall' on 25 December.

Maria Køhnke will release her album 'Collector' on 15 January. It was mixed by Per Sunding.

 

2006

SEPTEMBER

Time flies when you're having fun...

Much has happened since the last update, such as:

Swedish band Envelopes have been in and out of the studio with Per, and now they have finally reached the mixing stage. Currently they are on a US-tour, but they will return in October.

Patrik and Per spent a few hot summer weeks recording Danish band Sterling. They made an album which has been mixed and will be in the shops on October 30.

Another Danish band, Velour, recorded two songs with Per in the spring.

The Perishers from Umeå have recorded an album with Per as producer and it is being mixed right now.

Local band The Violet Sundays spent a weekend recording a demo with Herman in the studio, and Casino 66 also had the pleasure of having Herman behind the desk when they recorded an EP.

Per, Patrik and Maurits recorded and produced a song with Helena Drive 5 from Estonia, and Maurits and Patrik mixed three songs for Norwegian band Harrys Gym.

Finally, Per, together with Tore Johansson, is producing British band Good Shoes. They have recorded an album, and it will be mixed in the autumn.

FEBRUARY

First of all we would like to congratulate Timbuktu for winning Swedish Grammis 2005 for Hip-hop/Soul of the year and Lyricist of the year!

Whyte Seeds album 'Bold as love' has been released in Sweden, and the first single, also called 'Bold as love', has been out for a few weeks. It is on Swedish radio P3s A-playlist.

The album that Staffan Hellstrand recorded in the studio together with Maurits, Patrik and Per, called 'Motljus', will be released on 22 February and the first single 'Ta mina händer' is out now.

Danish band I Got You On Tape, whose self-titled album was mixed by Maurits and Patrik, will be released on 20 February.

2005

NOVEMBER

Per Sunding and Nathan Larson have finished mixing the Whyte Seeds album which should be released some time in spring 2006.

Danish band Velour are in the studio now with Per Sunding to start recording their second album.

Staffan Hellstrand is back in Malmö to add the finishing touches to his new album.

In December Swedish band Envelopes will be recording a few songs with Per Sunding.

OCTOBER

Whyte Seeds are done in the studio and we are looking forward to the release of their album.

Right now, Staffan Hellstrand is in the studio, recording a few songs with Per Sunding, Maurits Carlsson and Patrik Bartosch. Michael Ilbert is producing.

And shortly we will be welcoming The Perishers who will be recording an album with Per Sunding as producer.

SEPTEMBER

Well it seems like summer has passed and autumn has arrived! The studio has been fairly quiet over the past few months, although we have had some people working here.

Danish band Lupus were here for a week in August with Morten Bue.

Peter von Poehl spent a long weekend in the studio with French singer Pascale Daniel.

Maurits Carlsson and Patrik Bartosh finished the mixing of Danish band Marvellous and their album should be released in the autumn.

Patrik has also been writing string arrangements for Swan Lees upcoming concert at the new Copenhagen Opera House on 25 September. The concert will take place before the Danish crownprince-couple hand out their Culture Prize to a Danish artist.

Per Sunding and Nathan Larson have spent the summer mixing Whyte Seeds and the band are now back at Tambourine Studios to finalize the mix with Per and Nathan.

JUNE

The Göteborg-based band Whyte Seeds have been in the studio since 1 May with Per Sunding and Nathan Larson recording their second album. It's coming along fine and will be mixed here as well later this summer.

Patrick Bartosch is working on the music for another film called 'Percy, Buffalo Bill och jag'. The music was composed by Magnus Jarlbo and recorded under Patriks guidance. The film will be released on 30 September.

Monkeystrikes are getting ready to release their second single 'Let's go to Hawaii' from the album 'You hate my beautiful love'.

SPRING

Danish producer Nikolaj Nørlund has been in the Tambourine studio a few times this spring. First he was here with Jens Unmack to mix his album 'Vejen Hjem Fra Rocknroll' together with Maurits Carlsson and Patrik Bartosch. The single 'Happy Ending (I den her verden vil jeg ikke være trist)' has been high up on Danmarks Radio P3 playlist and the album will be released on 13 June. Nikolaj Nørlund then produced the new Olesen Olesen album with Morten Bue as technician, and this should be released late September/early October.

Maurits Carlsson and Patrik Bartosch have also been in the studio this spring mixing the new album by Danish band Marvellous. This shold be released some time this year.

Danish band Warwick Avenue spent a week in the studio recording a cover of a Kim Larsen song.

FEBRUARY

Monkeystrikes have finished mixing their album, which will be released at the end of April.

We would like to congratulate our friends The Hives on winning five awards at the 2005 Swedish Grammis. They won Album of the year for 'Tyrannosaurus Hives', Artist of the year, Best video for 'Walk Idiot Walk', Best producer and Best rockgroup. Once again, congratulations!

Idlewild have released their first single, 'Love steals us from loneliness', from their forthcoming album 'Warnings/Promises'. The album will be released in the UK on March 7.

The Margarets are releasing their new album on March 7 in Norway. We do not know the title, but their first single from it, 'Surf alone' is already out.

Welcome to the new Tambourine Studios homepage, hope you will enjoy it!

The Protools system has been upgraded to HD3accel, G5 dual 2,5GHz, Apogee AD16x, DA16x.

We are happy to let you know that the film 'Sandor/slash/Ida' is doing well at the box office and has got very good reviews.

JANUARY

Finally Monkeystrikes are back in the studio! They are here for a couple of weeks recording their new album with Nathan Larson producing. The album will be released by Dust Music in April.

Irish band The Revs are in the studio for a few days with Stefan Kvarnström recording vocals for their next album, working title 'Time slipping'.

The Tambourine Studios guestbook has been removed due to various circumstances, but we are looking to have another one up and running in the near future. Please be patient!

Icelandic Bardi Johannsson and French Keren Ann Zeidel, who together make up Lady and Bird, were in the studio over christmas recording a few things for their new album.

Patrik Bartosch
spent the best part of 2004 creating music for the film 'Sandor/slash/Ida'. It opens on February 4.

2004

DECEMBER

Arks single 'One of us is gonna die young' was released in Sweden on 8 December and is the most played single on Swedish radio P3 and on Swedish television.

Swan Lee are back at Tambourine Studios recording some bonustracks together with Per Sunding. They will be here for a few days in January as well.

NOVEMBER

The new Ark album will be released on 27 December and the single 'One of us is gonna die young' will be in the shops on 8 December.

OCTOBER

The Ark are getting close to finishing their album which will be relased after christmas although no date has been confirmed yet.

MARCH

The Ark are now in the studio with Per Sunding recording their third album, and will spend all of spring working on it.

Swan Lee's album 'Swan Lee' was released in Denmark on 1 March and sold gold (20,000 copies) within a matter of hours, so congratulations to them! The album will be released in Sweden later in the spring. They will be on tour over the next few months, mainly in Denmark, but will also play Cirkus in Stockholm on 5 April and KB here in Malmö on 15 April. On both occasions they will be supporting Weeping Willows.

FEBRUARY

We would like to congratulate our friends for winning the following awards at the 2004 Swedish Grammis:
The Cardigans
won Album of the year for 'Long Gone Before Daylight', Rockgroup of the year and the MTV prize for best video for 'You're the storm'.
Timbuktu
won Lyrical composer of the year and Hip Hop/Soul of the year.
The Haunted
won Hardrock of the year.
Big congratulations to them all!

Finnish band The Winyls spent a weekend here recording a single with producer Herman Söderström.

JANUARY

The first single, "I don't mind", from Swan Lees forthcoming album is on heavy rotation on Danmarks Radio P3 and will be released shortly. The album is currently being mixed and will be out in March this year.

Swedish punkrockers Randy spent a day in the studio recording a song for a forthcoming album.

2003

NOVEMBER

Scottish five-piece Idlewild will arrive here in December to record their new album. They bring with them producer Dave Eringa.

In a ceremony performed by us here at the studio, Per Sunding was presented with his Swedish gold disc for The Cardigans 'Long Gone Before Daylight'. In fact it has already sold platinum in Sweden, and we are eagerly waiting for this disc. In the meantime, the gold disc takes pride of place on our "disc-wall".


Norwegian band The Margarets are recording their forthcoming album in the studio with engineering help from Herman Söderström.

OCTOBER

Patrik Bartosch
is writing string arrangements for the Swan Lee album and will be recording them at Danmarks Radio in Copenhagen.

Monkeystrikes
, formed partly by previous members of Souls, has been in the studio reocrding a demo with Herman Söderström, and it´s very good!

SEPTEMBER


Per Sunding
is in Copenhagen with Swan Lee to finish the album they started recording in the studio earlier in the month.

We recomend a visit to the worlds first dedicated Bonving-homepage, www.bonving.co.uk. It has only been up for a few weeks, and it's changing from day to day.

Per Sunding is back in the studio with Swan Lee to record a full album.

JULY


Magnus Carlson
and eggstone will do 11 gigs together on the "Kalasturnén" this summer.

The Magnus Carlson album is ready and released, and the first single 'Jag ber dig' has been on heavy rotation on Swedish national radio for over two months.

JUNE

Per Sunding has recorded a song with Danish band Swan Lee and since it turned out well, we will probably see them here again later this year.

MAY

Junior Senior
mixed a new hitsingle together with Per and Maurits.

MARCH

Hideki Kaji
was in the studio with eggstone for a week to record a new single.

FEBRUARY

Magnus Carlson,
leadsinger of Weeping Willows, is in the house. He is recording a new soloalbum, produced and recorded by eggstone, who also have written most of the songs. We hope that the album will be in your favourite recordstore before summer is here.

The first new Cardigans single is out, and it's of course a hit with heavy rotation everywhere.

JANUARY

Air Bureau
(former Aircrash Bureau) are mixing some songs from their forthcoming debutalbum together with Maurits.

The Danish trash-dance-duo Junior Senior mixed a new hitsingle together with Per and Maurits.

2002

DECEMBER


Dipper
spent the day in the studio and recorded four, almost steaming new, songs together with Herman Söderström.

The Eldkvarn album 'Brott lönar sig alltid', produced by Per Sunding, is to be released on the 14th of December. Check it out!

NOVEMBER

The Cardigans
album, produced by Per Sunding and recorded mainly at Tambourine, is finished. Release is planned for March 2003 so put it in your diarys!

AUGUST

Our friends Weeping Willows challenged the Tambourine floorball team for a game, which took place in Malmö at "Friskis å Svettis". Weeping had a very nice "bajjen" outfit that, I think, initially scared all of us in the Tambourine team, but once the game got going our three-days-a-week practice since May paid off and we won the first game with a convincing 7-0.
Much love and big respect goes to Weeping Willows from Tambourine; thanks for a great game! We are all looking forward to a rematch next year.
Line-up team Tambourine : Claes, Moje, Paddy, Mangan, Herman, Peter (Per is missing in the picture).
Line-up team Weeping : Ola, Magnus, Arvid, Stefan, Robert (Niko is missing in the picture).
Anders , Weepings drummer on a normal day, but the coach on this partiuclar day.
One tired Weeping Willow.

JUNE

Eldkvarn
has left the building and The Cardigans are back in the studio to finish up.

Our old favourites Eldkvarn are in the studio to record a new album, produced by Per Sunding.

MAY

Big news, summer is here! The Cardigans, together with producer Per Sunding, are back in the studio.


APRIL

The Cardigans
are back at Tambourine to do some recordings together with producers Tore Johansson and Per Sunding.

Rigteous Boy, aka Magnus Sveningsson, has now released his solo debutalbum 'I sing because of you'.

MARCH

For the first time in Tambourine history we have a producer from Taiwan in the studio. Mr Bean arrived in Copenhagen after a 20-hour flight, for his first visit to Europe. He brings with him five songs by an artist called Deserts, and the musicians are, amongst others, Pece and Rasmus.

Local band Villa Nova Junction is in the studio to record a five-track ep. Producer is Herman Söderström.

LOK
is back in the studio for the final mixing of their new album.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness arrived today at the studio with leadman Chris Bryan from England .They are here for one week to record and mix some songs, including a soon to be released single.

FEBRUARY

We are very happy to welcome Thåström to Tambourine. He is here for a week to mix his new album. Mixing behind the Neve desk is Johan Forssman from Gothenburg and also Micke Herrström.

Nathan Larson
is back in the studio for a few days to work on some soundtracks.

Sort Sol
arrive at the studio for three days of mixing together with Patrik Bartosch and Maurits Carlsson.

Johan Reivén
, LOK
s drummer, arrived at Tambourine today, to spend five days mixing songs for their new album together with Per Sunding.

Stefan Sundström
arrived at the studio for seven days of recording, accompanied by a bunch of good musicians from Weeping Willows and The Soundtrack of Our Lives. Producer is Mikael Herrström.

Per Sunding
and Herman Söderström is getting down with the Neve desk, mixing earlier recorded The Pusjkins songs. Also in the studio is Maria Bergström, the leadsinger from the The Pusjkins.

The Tambourine produced album by Righteous Boy, aka Magnus Svenningsson, 'I sing because of you' is soon to be released.

Titiyo's song 'Come along' was the most played song on Swedish national radio in the year 2001. Yet another Tambourine hit! Titiyo is also nominated for three Swedish Grammis.

JANUARY

Michael Ilbert
is back in town and back at Tambourine. He is now mixing some songs from the newly recorded LOK album, produced by Per Sunding.

The MP3 page is finally up and running with some samples of Per Sundings productions.

Our friend Nathan Larson is in the studio for five days, working on music for the new Lukas Moodyson film.

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