So, here’s the next two songs from the latest EP.  Day one.  Day two.  These two songs were written I may when my band Rimstad Rockerz had an entire week with shows at Nydala theater in Malmö. Before every show we do there I usually have some of my piano music in the background before the show while people are taking their seats. When we did the same thing in February I played my song Years to come through the speakers, but you get pretty tired of hearing the same song over and over again for five days straight.  So,...

There has been some confusion regarding my “artist name” recently, so here’s a small explanation. On my latest two releases (at least on Spotify) both my artist name (Sleepy songs) and my real name (Johan Eckman) is written as “artist” on every song. NOT on the releases though, only the songs. I asked Spotify about this, and their very simple reply was that because it’s release under the classical genre, both the performing artist and the composer is written as “artist”. Simple as that! Makes sense, at least if you think of classical music as in Mozart. His work is...

So, my new EP is out now! I wanted to write a couple of words about the songs from the EP, starting with the oldest song.  Skärgården was originally written last summer and released on my EP v31. The previously released version has more instruments on it though (double bass and drums), and on this new version it’s only piano. I actually wanted to release the piano solo version of the song on the EP Piano pt.6, but that would have made it a full length record (which costs more to release than an EP, yeah, I am that cheap)....