After a longer period of unstable, rainy and colder weather, summer is slowly beginning to manifest itself over Sweden. Finally, it’s beginning to feel more summer-like and the coveted combination of warm summer days and a totally unscheduled life is coming on. Lovely!

The Summer Sale for this year is in full swing! Take the opportunity to buy great charts at reduced prices: 25% off on all arrangements, and 30% off on all compositions.

I wish all of you visiting here a really nice and wonderful July!

The Summer Sale is now under way since more than two weeks! Until August 31:st the discount is the now established 30% off on all compositions and 25% off on all arrangements, so take the opportunity to buy great charts at reduced prices and give your Big Band something fresh and stimulating to start the autumn rehearsals with.

I will in a few days go on a much needed vacation. This spring has been quite hectic, with not much time for composing and arranging, but now I will rest and recuperate and pick up the writing of new lyrics and composing of new charts for my big “Yokai” project, which is almost completed. The first step is to edit and publish the chart for the earlier announced duet “Anonymous Anomalies”, which hopefully can be done soon.

I wish all of you visiting here a really, really nice June! I hope that our troubled world, ravaged as it is by selfish, greedy, ruthless and totally unscrupulous people of power, guided by delusional preconceptions of their own grandeur and exclusive rights to self-fulfilment, can get some peace and rest and some vacation from exploitation and bereaving.

Meteorologically speaking we have had spring for some time already where I live, but it’s only now that it weather-wise is starting to feel like spring really is here. Also; Saturday night this weekend meant setting the clock one hour forward to summer daylight saving time; which I very much prefer.

This March meant planning and scheduling concerts for Big Engband for next year, and since those apperances mean that the band will premiere the whole “Yokai” concert program, I now have to see to it that all compositions constituting the program quickly get completed and edited. Therefore I look forward to very soon finish work on my latest composition, the fast swing duet “Anonymous Anomalies” for a male and a female vocalist, in the next week and publish it here, and immediately continue with the next. Making April a month for creative work, which I always enjoy.

So: I’ll remember March, and eagerly await April.

I wish all of you visiting here a really nice March to April shift!

The 2024 December sale, ended with the advent of January 2025 and now, close to the end of the month, all the mid-winter holidays truly are over. Making the January world grey, murky and colourless after the annual high season of illuminations and decorations.

Hitherto, the winter months – December and January – have been incredibly warm; eerily so. What litte snow has fallen, has quickly melted away, leaving a grey-brown world to trudge, where fog and rain make for the predominant precipitation, with some occasional downpours of sleet as a caricature of snow. The warming effects of human induced climate change seem to me to accelerate and take total prominence over the weather phenomenons that once was what I would expect this time of year: periods of snow and proper cold.

For me, this period in January without the real features of winter gets mentally tough and wearing, and with all that is currently going on in the world – with Russia still trying to ravage and devastate Ukraine after close to three years, a demented newly inaugurated president wreaking havoc on all conventions and relations there can be found while appointing unfit ignorants to important positions, Swedish politicians acting completely without visions, common sense and decency, and delusional tech billionaires openly curbing and controlling the lives of everybody else in favour of their profits, to mention some – it is all too easy to despair and get depressed.

One important thing to keep myself healthy, mentally alert and stimulated, is that I have begun work on a new composition for the “Yokai” project – a concert program primarily inspired by supernatural phenomenons of Japanese mythology and folklore. This new piece, titled “Anonymous Anomalies” and which is a fast swing duet for a male and a female vocalist concerning conceited, instrumental and exploitative love, is now under way, and will – of course – be published here upon completion.

I wish all of you visiting here some hope and some means to lighten up your January, and that you all can find those things that keep you from desparing when the times weigh you down.

As usual, as every year, there will be a December Sale! Between December 1st and 31st the reductions will be the now usual 30% off on all compositions, and 25% off on all arrangements.

There is a lot to choose from: Fast swing charts with or without vocalist, many different styles from funk via jazz to folk, meters between 3/4 to 17/4, many variations in the reed section, or features for different soloists – to mention some. Pick your choice and most likely there is something suitable to find.

Take the opportunity to buy great and unique charts at nice prices; maybe as a Christmas gift, or to give your big band something fresh, new, challenging and rewarding to play, come the spring rehearsal season!

To everybody visiting here: Welcome!