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“It’s just love, how hard can it be …” So sings Swedish singer/songwriter Sofia Talvik on her upcoming single ‘It’s Just Love’ – destined to become THE winter anthem for defiant young lovers everywhere. A duet with one of the UKs top indie icons of the last 15 years - who is it? You’ll just have to listen to find out. ‘It’s Just Love’ evokes memories of the last great ‘triumph over adversity’ duet; ‘Don’t Give Up’ by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. Sofia’s soft, delicate, almost fragile vocals soar over a powerful piano melody punctuated by soft percussion, gentle strings and the rarely heard resonance of an acoustic double bass. ‘It’s Just Love’ is taken from Sofia’s second album ‘Street of Dreams’. Written and produced entirely by Sofia herself, the album is scheduled for release in January 2007 through Makaki Music. Her debut album ‘Blue Moon’ was released in 2005 to high critical acclaim and quickly established Sofia as one of Swedens most promising young singer/songwriters. Sofia Talvik was born on an island, right outside of the west coast of Sweden. At the young age of 18, she left for the capital and began to write those beautiful stories, which made people acknowledge her from the very beginning. After a successful EP, she collected 12 of her songs and recorded her debut album "Blue Moon". As the writer, artist and producer she controlled every step of the process and the result was an album where the lyrics was in the center and the melodies the essence. "Blue Moon" took 40 intense hours to record and is basically recorded as live sessions as the goal was to make the record sound as Sofia Talvik and her steady companions The Tallboys would sound at a consert. Having made herself a reputation of a great live-artist, frequently playing at the clubs in Stockholm and around Sweden this was a natural way of doing it and gives the album a uniqe sound that makes it timeless in the sense that it could have been recorded 20 years ago aswell as 20 years from now. "Blue Moon" was released by the independent record company Starboy Recordings (distributed by Playground Music Scandinavia) in May 2005, and got raving reviews from press all over Sweden. http://www.sofiatalvik.com |