Don’t want to be repetitive but next week I’ll be away until January 2nd. So while I’m away there won’t be any new blog posts and also the Cloudberry Records offer of 3 CDs for the price of 2 will be over. So take advantage of it these last days of December.
It is proving a bit harder to find new music during the end of the year but I’m going all over the web trying to find some good tunes that haven’t been featured on the blog.
Ring Snuten: our friend Patrik is back with a Christmas song, and its instrumental version of the same song, on Bandcamp. “När det lider mot jul” sounds great, full of ramshackling guitar fun! I hope to hear more songs by him the coming year!
Gentle Ivanhoe Death Skulls: the great Toulouse based label Hidden Bay Records just put out a 10 song tape called “Beaches” by this Stockholm based band. There are only 70 copies of the tape so do hurry! Important to mention of course is that the band has in its rank a fellow Cloudberry friend, Rickard who used to be in Robert Church & the Holy Community who once upon a time put out a 3″ with us.
Adam John Miller: the ex-Manhattan Love Suicides has released a digital EP called “¡Alas, Montañas!” with the label Cath’n’Dad Records from London. There are four upbeat and sunny songs, inspired by the time he spent on the coast of Spain.
Seeing Hands: as there aren’t many finds from this last month, I’m going back, back in time. I did feature Seeing Hands on the blog when they put out a 10″ on Discos de Kirlian. But before that it seems they put out a 7″ last March with the songs “I Knew You” and “It’s True”. Perhaps the Spanish label heard them thanks to this release. It does sound great. I wish I had known, now I need to make miracles to find a copy of the 7″ as it is already sold out.
Crabber: “Bluesbusters” is the fantastic debut album by this Hamburg based bands that has members of top bands like Kristallin, The Legendary Bang and more. 13 songs of top noisy jangle pop, influenced by the poppier moments of The Wedding Present. It is now available on CD on Jigsaw Records!
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I found this band and song, Rain Sometimes’ “All My Time With You”, on my friends Youtube channel. There are plenty of goodies at David’s account. I’ve discovered lots of music thanks to him. And Rain Sometimes might be the latest one even though this track was uploaded much earlier, in May of 2018.
I wonder where he finds all these treasures. A lot I know of course. He likes the same Swedish pop from 2000s that I love too. So even though if I don’t know the rare track he has uploaded, I know the band, or some people that were involved in it. But with many of them, my knowledge is zero. That is the case with Rain Sometimes.
It looks as if David doesn’t know much about them. He hasn’t added much on the description aside that this song was part of a 4-track EP that was released in 1998. The image he uses has a title, “Not That Kind”. Was it the title of the EP? Or perhaps the name of the first song?
I google and google. And I can’t seem to find anything about the band. If it was a band, or perhaps a one-man project. I can’t figure out where in the world were they based either. If this 4-track was a CD or a vinyl record. It doesn’t seem to be listed on Discogs or Rateyourmusic or anywhere else. I must be missing something.
There has to be some information. Or someone must know something. The song is really nice and that’s why I am curious. I hope that someone can help!
Edit: Patrik, from Ring Snuten (what a coincidence!), just told me some great info about Rain Sometimes! “And yeah, got some inside info about Rain sometimes for you! It’s (of course..) one of Roger Gunnarssons many aliases. If I recall correctly it was a short lived proto-Nixon era project, might even be contemporary with the earliest Nixon stuff. Feel free to confirm this with Roger! And in fact, a re-recorded “All my time with you” was featured on the cd-r only Nixon release “Snow day” EP from 2003. On that version, Mathias Malm of Funday Mornings / Everyday Mistakes fame lays down an extremely characteristic guitar solo!”
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One Response to “:: Rain Sometimes”
Hola Roque!
En el año 1998 Roger Gurnnasson grabó unas demos junto a Henrik Påhle para Nixon. Como por esa época Roger tenía debilidad por las bandas de Sarah Records y el pop británico en general de los ochenta, decidió grabar un CD-R pero esta vez ya en solitario como Rain Sometimes inspirado por esa música. Más tarde ese tema el ”All My Time With You” se incluyó en el CDr EP ‘Snow Day’ de Nixon en el sello sueco que tanto amo Popkonst Recordings, en una versión algo parecida.