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Rikard
Sjöblom's Gungfly Sign to InsideOutMusic;
new
album to be released in May
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Following
last year's disbanding of Sweden's much-loved progressive rockers Beardfish,
vocalist and driving force Rikard
Sjöblom has turned his attention to his solo project Gungfly, and signed
with InsideOutMusic for the release of the next album 'On Her Journey To The
Sun' on May 19th, 2017.
Rikard
had this to say: "Gungfly
was born out of necessity, songs came to life whenever there was downtime
with Beardfish or if a song didn't quite fit within Beardfish's (otherwise
quite broad and eclectic) frame of styles. I basically started recording
songs, mainly pop-oriented material, but being the type of songwriter and
musician I am, some prog slipped through the radar as well. With the break-up
of Beardfish all of the prog-related material I write needed to go somewhere
and Gungfly was ready and able for this step!"
Watch a
teaser for the album here: https://youtu.be/zga0ZdGd-uc
"I
recorded what was to become the first album between 2007 - 2008 and it was
released in 2009. The name Gungfly is a Swedish word meaning unsecure ground,
and it came from a novel I read where it was used to describe that someone
didn't have grounds to back up their statements, so I liked it and chose to
call the project that!" Rikard continues: "I've always been writing
and recording lots of music and when I formed the live band to perform these
songs for the first time I got to pick some of my oldest friends to play with
and thankfully they wanted to be part of it! Petter and Rasmus Diamant (yes,
they're brothers) on drums and bass have always been the backbone foundation
in this line-up and sometimes we actually do gigs as the Gungfly trio.
Sverker Magnusson has been behind the keys since the start and was recently
joined by Martin Borgh too to be able to cover all of the keyboard work on
the albums, so sometimes we do three keyboard players on stage at the same
time! This is made possible by the fact that guitarist David Zackrisson
(Beardfish) is in the band as well. Me then? I do what I've always done;
sing, play guitars and a bunch of vintage keyboards (mainly Hammond organ) -
and I have lots of fun."
Rikard
Sjöblom is perhaps best known as the multi-instrumentalist frontman of
Beardfish, who established themselves as one of the most consistently
brilliant modern-day progressive rock bands over the course of eight studio
albums. In recent years, he has also become known for his work with English
progressive collective Big Big Train, playing live with them as well as
performing on their 2016 album 'Folklore'. That year also marked the release
of his most recent solo album under his own name, 'The Unbendable Sleep'.
GUNGFLY online:
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