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Interview with Karolina Komstedt of Club 8
Published by
Eric Wiryanata
August 9, 2007 in Features and Interviews.





1、
Hello Karolina, I’ve got a few short question to ask you… how are you?

I’m fine, thank you. This magic year 2007 has been so good to me, the best one in a very, very long time. It’s been full of surprises, creativity and love. Club 8 just finished the recording of a new album and i was more inspired than ever before. And the trip to Indonesia in March filled me with happiness and still does. And I’ve been working with a film script, something that I’ve been dreaming to do for a long time. I write it together with a Swedish author called Hans-Eric Hellberg and the script is based on his very controversial and debated books from the seventies. It’s a beautiful story about love between two very young people who live with their families in the same house.

2007年对我来说充满了惊喜和创造和爱。发行了新专辑、难忘的印尼之旅、参与了电影剧本的撰写。

2、Would you mention 5 (or more) records that had been influencing you until now?

Some of the records below have had a big influence on me as a person, some of them have influenced our music a lot and I think it’s quite easy to guess which ones.

The Field Mice: Coastal
Blueboy: If wishes were horses
The Smiths: The Smiths
The Radio Dept: Lesser matters
Felt: Poem of the river
Leonard Cohen: Songs
Television Personalities: Far away and lost in joy
The Sea Urchins: Stardust
Ingenting: Mycket vasen for ingenting
Mazzy Star: Among my swan

10张对我影响很大的专辑。

3、What is on your heavy rotation playlist lately?

●Club 8:
‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’
(the 12 song album which will be out in September)
It’s just finished and I can’t stop analysing every detail on it, to see if there are things that i want to change in the production. But that’s so silly, cause it’s being printed right now so i should leave it. But I’m happy to say that both me and Johan are very satisfied with it. It’s such a good feeling.
●Morrissey:
‘Your arsenal’
I just say one thing: the song ‘Seasick, yet still docked’ is so beautiful it hurts. My heart is too small for it.
●Labrador 100
Labrador records is our Swedish label and early this year they released a 100 song compilation including one song from each release from the start 1997 up to now, and Labrador’s very first album was actually ‘The friend I once had’ with Club 8. My absolute favourites on Labrador records are The Radio Dept, The Mary Onettes and Ingenting, which is the only band who sings in Swedish on Labrador.

最近常听的3张专辑；非常喜欢The Smith的主唱Morrissey；Labrador旗下最喜欢的3个乐队：The Radio Dept, The Mary Onettes and Ingenting

4、Is there any band in mind you would recommend our readers to listen?

I recommend you go for all the bands I mentioned in the first question. Their songs will make you smile and cry and smile and cry… and afterwards you will feel soothened, comforted, awakened, cleaned and enlightened, more alive than ever and never lonely again :)

我想把前面所提到的专辑献给我的歌迷。这些歌曲会让你充满感情。

5、What do you miss about Indonesia after the show a few months ago?

I miss the whole thing… especially the people. I still think about Indonesia every day and i have SMS and myspace contact with quite a lot of the fans who were there and listened to us.

I don’t know why but I felt a very special connection to Indonesia. The friendliness and warmth of the organizers and the people in general, touched me.

印尼之旅让我感动。

6、Any plans for the future release?

The next step is to release the second single, called ‘Heaven’ in the beginning of September and after that we’ll release the album ‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’ in the end of the same month. Very soon we’ll start recording our 7th album and also tour a little. We’ve been invited to many Asian countries but we think we’ll play in China and Thailand to begin with.

第七张专辑也快要开始录音了。中国和泰国将会是我们即将开始的亚洲之行的前两站。

Thanks for the time.

Sounds: www.labrador.se/sounds.php3
Info: www.labrador.se/artists/club8.php3
www.myspace.com/club8
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我是多么地期待9月26号这天的到来呀。 那就是传说中的天堂啊。

http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Club%208%20-%20Heaven.mp3