JAN STENFORS: The album will be released on June 10 and was preceded by a couple of singles. What can we expect from the sound of STENFORS? MELODY LANE: The album will be out in a few days, the singles that preceded it are really interesting and I think they highlighted the different nuances of your sound. With such a large, seven-piece line-up, we hope to find big enough stages ha ha ha. And then we have my daughter and FREJ's daughter JASMINE and CARLA who sings backing vocals. We have to thanks JONATAN if we could do it all by ourself, we didn't need a label to record the album or to pay a studio.he did everything in his homestudio. My wife Minna plays keyboards and sings backing vocals, my nephew JONATAN, who's NISSE's son, is the other guitar player but he also produced, recorded and engineered the entire album. Then the band is me on vocals, guitars and mandolin, my older brother NISSE on bass and vocals, my little brother FREJ on drums and vocals, then there's my father who is the leading flag of the whole band, the spirit and soul of it. JAN STENFORS: We split the composing pretty much equal with my brothers NISSE and FREJ. MELODY LANE: How were the songs born? Is there a main composer or was it a 'family affair' in terms of songwriting? Tell us something about all the band members One my dad sings, it’s an old jazz cover from the ‘20s called SWEET SUE, and the other one it’s a JOHNNY CASH’s song that I sing… it’s a rocky version of Folsom Prison Blues. JAN STENFORS: All original except two tracks. MELODY LANE: What can you tell us about the songs included on the album? Is it all original stuff or will there be covers too? For the album he wrote some stuff, recorded some guitar parts with us in the studio and he sang in one song. JAN STENFORS: Yes, he’s on the album… while when the shows start it won't be possible for him to come with us, you know, he's getting a little old and moving around is not very comfortable for him. MELODY LANE: So your father is also part of the project? and now for me it's really a dream come true: I have my own family band! So things started from there and worked great. With all the problems related to the CORONA virus we obviously couldn't do any shows, so we started to see what we had songwise and if it would be good enough to record an album, to show the band STENFORS to the world. So little by little the idea became more and more reality and more and more ambitious. As things went on we got our father involved too and it worked out great. and so I came up with the idea of involving other relatives. and then you know… my brother Frej even played drums on my solo album… So things grew slowly, we were having a lot of fun. You know, even during the years when I wasn't playing much, I still cherished the idea and thought I should do something musically interesting with my brothers, with whom I had played together a lot when I was a boy. JAN STENFORS: It's a bit of a dream come true for me. Let's start with the most obvious question. MELODY LANE: Hi Jan and thank you for your time.
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