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It's Spinning Inside My Head
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One of the wonderful things about web video is discovering Swedish techno-pop artists, such as Johan T. Karlsson's band Familijen, and filmmakers like Johan Soderberg. Their collaboration for Familijen's latest video "It's Spinning Inside My Head" (or if you speak Swedish, "Det snurrar i min skalle") is a mini-masterwork of visual scratching: Except for strobed images of a girl dancing in the end, the entire video is cut together from footage of a quasi-religious sect from Sweden in the early 1960s, with the preacher seemingly lip-syncing the words to the song.
"Johan works in an archive of TV-material and does deep diggings in the archives to find weird and great material," says Mattias Lovkvist, founder and co-owner of the Swedish record label Hybris, which co-releases Familjen in Sweden along with Adrian Recordings,
Soderberg is well known in Sweden for similar lip-sync short clips with politicians called "Read My Lips" that have been aired on Swedish national television. You can see more of Sodeberg's work at his website (soderberg.tv) or in this popular YouTube clip of Bush & Blair singing "Endless Love." The director-editor has also done cutting work on several videos for Madonna ("American Life," "Hung Up," "Sorry") as well as footage from her 2004 documentary I'm Going To Tell You A Secret. He also directed the "Sorry Remix" video backdrop for Madonna's 2006 Confessions Tour.
According to Lovkvist, the 29-year-old Karlsson has also become a bit of a local phenom in Stockholm. Influenced by the '80s "House" scene, Manchester Britpop and '90s Euro-techno, he sings in a strong Swedish southern dialect that is pretty rare in Sweden. For those who don't speak Swedish, "The dialect is kind of warm and inviting, as is the lyrics," he explains.
"It's Spinning Inside My Head" was originally written as a slow love song for Karlsson's sisters' wedding, adds Lovkist. The new version will be released
as a 7" by Hybris/Adrian/House of tellé in early November. And if you vote for Familjen on this music contest website, Hybris "will buy you free beer," they promise on their YouTube page.
--Anthony Kaufman
Johan Soderberg
Music Video, Experimental
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Johan Soderberg
Johan Soderberg
