Sunday, 8 August 2010
Two weeks to Dalhalla.
...and more than ever, I wish I could be there, but sadly I can't be, so you will all have to tell me all about it!
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Unfortunately, due to circumstances outwith my control, the Planet Salem Forum was deleted by the forum provider and cannot be restored. Once again I am very sorry about this.
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Salem Al Fakir is a 35 year old singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Stockholm, Sweden, who released three solo albums - his debut "This Is Who I Am" in January 2007; his second album "Astronaut" in March 2009; and his third album "Ignore This" in March 2010.
How would you begin to describe Salem's music? Incredibly diverse, with influences ranging from soul to jazz to classical to pop to rock to 70s/80s retro and even a bit of reggae and prog rock! You can't pigeonhole Salem's music - no two songs sound the same, but they are all wonderful examples of musical excellence with a timeless quality.
Although Salem is no longer making music as a solo artist, in recent years he has written and produced with a number of artists on different musical projects and has achieved international recognition for his work as songwriter and featured vocalist for Avicii and also Axwell and Ingrosso. He is currently one half of the duo Vargas and Lagola, along with his songwriting/production collaborator, the brilliant Vincent Pontare.
How would you begin to describe Salem's music? Incredibly diverse, with influences ranging from soul to jazz to classical to pop to rock to 70s/80s retro and even a bit of reggae and prog rock! You can't pigeonhole Salem's music - no two songs sound the same, but they are all wonderful examples of musical excellence with a timeless quality.
Although Salem is no longer making music as a solo artist, in recent years he has written and produced with a number of artists on different musical projects and has achieved international recognition for his work as songwriter and featured vocalist for Avicii and also Axwell and Ingrosso. He is currently one half of the duo Vargas and Lagola, along with his songwriting/production collaborator, the brilliant Vincent Pontare.
If you have recently discovered Salem through his work with other artists, then please take some time to discover his solo work. You will not be disappointed!
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You are very welcome to use any of my photos or screencaps, or if you want to share any information from this site on other blogs/websites...but please remember to mention that you found them here at Planet Salem :)
Unfortunately, due to circumstances outwith my control, the Planet Salem Forum was deleted by the forum provider and cannot be restored. Once again I am very sorry about this.
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Will do =) I'll get back to you on that, though...
We will, Laura!
Fredrik, so you're also going? Nice :) Seems like half of facebook is going... some of us will have a gathering up there! D Don't think there has ever been this many facebookers at the same time at a gig before :)
It sounds like a "pilgrimage" for all the hardcore fans doesn't it!!
Are any of you going up on the Festivalbussen? I can imagine buses full of Salem fans, all singing his songs on the journey up there and doing the "4 O'Clock" handclaps and the "here we go" arm-waving :))
But I won't be there, and I'm feeling really sad about that, because this is the one concert I really wanted to go to. It's going to be such a special night, and I'd have loved to have met all my friends who I've got to know through doing Planet Salem. But I'll just have to be there "in spirit" I guess :(
Eva, OF COURSE I'm going - it's only a couple of (swedish) miles from Falun, and while I still live here... (For the record, I'm moving down to Stockholm by the end of August.)
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