The french pop fanzine, VF Pop, recently published an issue of their magazine with focus on french pop music. In one of the articles, by the french artist Pierre Chandeze, Mårten Lärka suddenly shows up.
Pierre Chandeze explains: ”I wanted to draw Mårten Lärka because he’s not french but sing in french, then I thought of the song ”Robot” then thought of the Flaming Lips song about pink robots, then about Daft Punk 😂”
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Carton Sonore
With A Messy Head
VF Pop
2022 was a horrible year to the world, even worse then the previous two. But on a personal level; in the name of making art, music, joy, love and freedom, it was terrific in many ways. The 20th anniversary, for celebrating my two decades as a solo act, at Hembygdsgården in Jättendal, was un unforgettable evening to be Mårten Lärka. With a great little help from my friends we suddenly hit the road again.
Several recordings finally saw their releases during the year. Not to forget mentioning the music video “Robot 22”, after five years in the vault.
I started mixing in a completely new music studio as well. I also commenced a collaboration with another music label, for the first time.
I aim to make 2023 the best I can for being something similar. It is no secret that the tape recorder is repaired and we are currently working again, with the recordings that stopped in April 2021.
All the best to all of you and a very Happy New Year!
/Mårten
A very specially thanks to Frida Bergström, Martin Hellquist, Lars Ohlsson, Daniel Johnston, Henrik Heinrich, Claes Olson, Anders Bodin, Pär Wickholm, Calle Bernmar, Clara Elmén, Märta Olsson, Mikael Svensson, Pierre Chandeze, Anna Selander, Sven Weiß, Zaravinda von Rosen, Martin Berger, Niclas Vallin, Isak Edh, Hamid Khodja and Gunilla Wenngren.
It’s this time of a year again. Trasiga pepparkakshjärtan has been added on several alternative Christmas song lists. In 2016 we arranged a Christmas calendar celebrating ten years since the track was released. One act per date did their own version of the song, from the 1st to the 24th of December, to be posted on Mårten Lärkas social media channels.
Now we are planning to do that again for next season. So feel free to give us your contribution in time for December the 1st 2023.
http://meadowmusic.se/en/2016/12/marten-larkas-christmas-calendar-trasiga-pepparkakshjartan/
From all of use to all of you a Happy New Year and best wishes!
/Team Lärka
”Parfum De Nuit” har hamnat mittemellan ABBA och The Boppers i denna reprissändning från oktober. En Sverigespecial som sänds på flera kontinenter.
Enjoy “Hello Sweden” Special -re-broadcast October 2022.
Lopsided World of L always exploring new artists and new music, internationally. This week December 19 – December 25
heard on 10 Radio stations worldwide on 5 continents.
Please view website at www.jlradio.com for days and
times, station links and playlist below
‘Sweden Special’ with the award winning Lopsided World of L featuring music from Henrikes, Mårten Lärka, ABBA, Paperwing and Sunstroke Rain. For more information on stations and times, check out below or
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Today Martin Hellquist came by to drum on some brand new recordings. We can’t wait to share this to the world!
On November 30th. Robot 22 was released as a single, by Swedish music label COMEDIA.
Choose your preferred music service hereThe music video for Robot 22 was released today. Made by Mikael Svensson, Extended Media Sweden.
Thanks to the UK blog Nordic Music Central for having the world premiere of the “Robot 22” music video. Enjoy it here!
The music video for C’est ma vie à moi is now official.
Video by Mikael Svensson, Extended Media Sweden.
I dag, på Mårtensafton, släpps “21”. Ett samlingsalbum med tjugoen av Mårten Lärkas alla brokiga mästerverk. Fyra olika språk och två decennier av musik från en singer/songwriter med uttrycksfull och karaktäristisk ljudbild och stämma. Texterna och innehållet rör sig fritt över tid men ringar samtidigt in typiska och talande fenomen av samtidsnatur. En summering av en blomstrande konstnärsresa som börjar med ”Verkligen tomt” 2001 och tar sig vidare genom visor och pop på svenska för att 2014 åka på språkkurs med den fransktalande vännen Hamid Khodja. Sedan tillbaka mot svenska igen, och lite engelska, för att till sist göra ett frustrerande manifest på ryska. Dessutom ryms här även ”Robot 22”, en helt ny mix av “Robot”.
Releasen sker i samarbete med den svenska musiklabeln COMEDIA .
