I'm from Barcelona
When the rock histories of the 2000s are written, at least one long chapter will have to be written about the explosion of the concept of the rock band not as a small, discrete unit with relatively stable personnel, but as an amorphous, free-floating collective that could at times expand to include literally dozens of people. Canada's Broken Social Scene and the pan-European ensemble the Envelopes are perhaps the best-known examples, but I'm from Barcelona -- who, naturally, are actually from the small, picturesque, but not at all Catalan city of Jonkoping, Sweden ...[more]
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Swedish pop collective I'm From Barcelona's debut album, Let Me Introduce My Friends, released in the US on Mute. Named after Fawlty Towers' Manuel (he's from Barcelona, si?), and formed in Jonkoping, Sweden by Emanuel Lundgren, I'm From Barcelona are 29 (count em!) friends who gathered together and, fuelled with the energy that only a sunny summer holiday can bring, created an album of explosively happy pop songs. Emanuel's flat transformed into a factory where band members embraced a do-it-yourself [ read more ]
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After two years of touring the world, I'm From Barcelona return with Who Killed Harry Houdini?. The album is produced by Emanuel Lundgren and Fabian "Phatfabe" Torsson and the track "Gunhild" features the talented French singer SoKo. The year is 2007, Waiting at Heathrow Airport Emanuel Lundgren wishes that his fear of flying could disappear. He enters a book shop and his eyes fall upon "The Secret Life of Harry Houdini". The book about the famous escapologist makes Emanuel remember his own [ read more ]
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