Carl Abrahamsson

Freddie Wadling docu on Vimeo On Demand

April 21, 2016

My film Ingenting är sant, allting är möjligt – en liten film om Freddie Wadling, is now available on Vimeo On Demand. The film is in Swedish but contains some great musical performances by Wadling’s Blue For Two project (together with Henryk Lipp) from 1987 and 2014. Freddie Wadlings samtal med Carl Abrahamsson 1987 och tre klassiska Blue For Two-låtar inspelade 1987 blev till filmen “Love begins to write a book” 1988. 26 år senare återskapade Abrahamsson och Wadling det hela, med samma frågor och samma låtar framförda av Blue For Two. Resultatet? En fascinerande tidsresa i ett konstnärskap och en evigt sprakande närvaro i svenskt kulturliv. En hyllning till en unik kreativitet som trotsat öden, döden och diverse äventyr, och som mot alla odds fortsätter att förgylla svensk musik på helt egna villkor. 35 minuter, Sverige 2015. Ingenting är sant, allting är möjligt – En liten film om Freddie Wadling from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.

Sub Umbra Alarum Luna soundtrack released

April 19, 2016

The Cotton Ferox soundtrack to my film Sub Umbra Alarum Luna is released today. It is available through all relevant streaming and download channels. Our own boutique of strangeness, Highbrow Lowlife, of course sells it too, and I’d appreciate if you buy it straight from us. Thank you! The film itself will be released on VOD on April 23rd and on DVD on April 25. For more information about the film, please read this little POST.

22.000 bottles of beer and some pre-modern nasal casualties

April 17, 2016

Like all civilised cities, Copenhagen has its share of great museums and heavy cultural institutions. It’s easy to take them for granted and believe you’ve seen it all after only a few visits to each place. But, let me assure you, there’s always more to see. Although the Carlsberg Glyptotek currently exhibits some beautiful Gauguin-paintings and objects, the main claim to fame is not these temporary shows of heavyweights but the permanent rooms with classical statues and objects (Rome, Greece, Egypt – the usual suspects). If you’ve busied and dizzied yourself with endless noble heads and torsos to the point of exhaustion, you might get lucky and suddenly end up at the museum’s own ”nasotheque”. This is a remarkable display of chopped off noses (plaster/stone/marble, not real ones) that brings a new twist to the concept of ”authenticity”. In the old days authenticity meant “true to life”, true to what the senses communicated (with a whole lot of vain idealisation...

Gothenburg came back to haunt me and vice versa

April 12, 2016

They’ve always made a lot of good music in Gothenburg. Or, simply, a lot of music, as there’s been a vast amount of the bad kind too. That has often been the reason for my many visits. Recently, I was invited both to lecture and show one of my recent films. Despite this, I realised that there was no way I could escape my musical relationship with the place. Not that I would ever want to, but still… At the wonderful bookstore Aniara, I delivered a lecture about Carl Jung’s move from psychology to pop culture and how his emphasis on the necessity of myth is now more necessary than ever. This bookstore, specialising in philosophy, has recently been taken over by friends of mine: Elisabeth Hansen Punzi and her husband Torben Hansen. Elisabeth I’ve known since the early 1990s when she was in one of my favourite Gothenburg bands, Whipped Cream. This took me back to my first Gothenburg phase, late 80s, when I was a hang-around at the art collective Radium 226.05 (created by...