Josephine Orn: Stockholm Syndrome

Hedliners of the sixteenth issue of the program "Music at Free" - a Swedish singer named Josephine Orn and her group The Liberation. Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky , representing on the waves of Radio Liberty, all the best from the world of modern music, thought about the place of Sweden on the cultural map of the world.

This country is small, outskirts, but it does not turn to call it a provincial language. But what about ABBA -one of the main pop-phenomena of all times and peoples? But what about the myriads of Swedish hit artists, like Roxette , Army of Lovers, Europe , Robin Cherry and Nene Cherry ? Swedish pop music-like Volvo cars: maybe there are not many of them in the general stream, but they are always noticeable and famous for their quality. By the way, many world stars - for example, American Britney Spears - are produced in Sweden.

With the Swedish rock music, the story is more confusing: cosmopolitan hard-roots, such as the same Europe or Ingvi Malmstine, sing in English and do not differ with special originality. And the native Swedish language, which is used by the most interesting local musicians - say, Bob Hund , or a fairy -tale accordionist Lars Hallmer (recently died), is not in demand in the global market. However, there are exceptions: psychedelic guitar Dungen sing in Swedish, but have a lot of fans around the world, and mysterious sectarians called Goat came up with a unique musical style, and sing in banal English. About the same can be said about the heroes of today's program.

So, Josephine Orn and her group The Liberation , "Liberation"; The song "Dunes" from the debut album of the ensemble, "Horse Dance".

It is curious that the name The Liberals did not draw the musicians from any left-wing quotes or feminist slogans. As they themselves claim, their quote from the Tibetan Book of the Dead inspired their quote, which sounds like this: "Liberation through what can be heard between sounds." The Liberation basis is the creative duet of the vocalist and front-Women Josephine Orr and her friend of the guitarist Fredrick Joelson .

Our creativity is rather gloomy, and not one of our songs was written in the light of day

The first album of The Libration was released in September 2015. In the music of the group, as it is easy to notice, a lot of influences merged. This is a modern electronic trance rhythm, and psycho-rock of the late 1960s, and the intonation of the "new wave", and the mysterious mood of the trip-hop, and, probably, a lot more. When Josephine was asked to make a list of "five albums that changed her life", it turned out quite eclectic. Melancholic masterpiece of Desertshore Nico Nico ("transferred me to another dimension"); "My life in the thickets of ghosts" David Burn and Brian Ino ("A signal of a crazy future, not like today"); Station To Station David Bowie ("contradictory and hysterical, but with an unearthly message"); Laser Guided Melodies British spiritualized ("intensively urban, but at the same time pastoral"); and 2 bis French women of Portugal origin, Katrin Ribeiro ("Awesome voice, directly psychedelic Edith Piaf").

Vasily Kandinsky. "Fuga", 1914

After the first album, which, incidentally, received the Swedish Prize for the best debut, Josephine Orn had another album - just recently, and it is called Mirage. If the sounds of “horse dances” clearly predominated the sound of American electronic psychedelia with a plentiful echo effect, in particular, the Suicide duo, then in the music of “Mirage”, the influence of the German Craut-Broad and the epochal group Can . I will introduce you the song Rainbow Lollipop , which, incidentally, has just come out on the new single of the group.

In addition to music, Josephine Orn inspire cinema and painting, in particular, Andrei Tarkovsky’s films and the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky. As well as the works of medieval mystics. Yosephin Orne and The Liberation Songs cannot be called bright and joyful. Yes, she herself says: "Our work is rather gloomy, and I once thought that, in fact, that none of our songs were written in the light of day." Nevertheless, Josephine and her partners have a kind of positive installation. In an interview with one Dutch publication, she said: "A person’s need for alternative and borderline conditions, as if to see himself in a different perspective, is not a whim, but a deep and fundamental need." Well, here is another composition from the album "Mirage", and it is just called Imagine You , "Imagine itself."

Playlist of the program "Music at Free" (Issue 16):

1. Chelsea Wolfe (USA). Iron Moon, LP Abyss

2. Birtman (Russia). Deer, lp your favorite songs

3. Birtman (Russia). Invite Negro dance, lp your favorite songs

4. Josefin Ohrn & The Liberation (Sweden). Dunes, LP Horse Dance

5. Josefin Ohrn & The Liberation (Sweden). Rainbow Lollipop, LP Mirage

6. Josefin Ohrn & The Liberation (Sweden). Imagine You, LP Mirage

7. XIXA (USA). Down from the Sky, Lp Bloodline

8. Zmei3 (Romania). Stai Langa Mine, LP ROUGH Romania Soul

9. B4 (Czech Republic) Ja Ja, SO Schön Schläfst Dutter, LP Die Mitternachtsmasm

10. Las Kellies (Argentina). Sugar Beat, LP Friends & Lovers

11. Michael Nyman (UK). An eye for Optical Theory, LP The Draughmathsman's Contract