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2019
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Friday 15.11.2019 at 15-16: Swedish Broadcasting; P4 Radio Malmöhus Sofia Härdig is playing LiVE in the radio Channel P4 Malmöhus Balzargatan 16 together with John Essing! Interview and live in the studio at 15:00-16:00! Tune in some LiVE studio music! Claes Olson Comedia Photo: Jeanette Andersson Costume: Ellen Krantz, Sophie Ljungblom. So, You can both See And Listen P4 Radio Malmöhus
RELEASE: NEW ALBUM OUT 04.11.2019; THiS BiG HUSH; Bengans, Discogs, Spotify.
Today it's out THiS BiG HUSH and we're celebrating it with a big party at Snotty Seaside on Thursday and with a concert at Mosebacke on Friday! on the album it's Me and John Essing guitar Anne Marte Eggen bass Knut Finsrud Drums and Martin Rössel piano on one track. Me songs, production, vocals, guitar, percussion and synth. Photo by Patrick Miller cover by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson recorded at Tambourine Studios by Mathias Schlegel and at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm by me. Mixed and mastered by Joakim Lindberg. Costume by Ellen Krantz Sophie Ljungblom Åsa Gjerstad and me. Claes Olson Comedia Mystic Sons Snowhite.
11.09.2019
Premiere today and great review for INFATUATION at Brittish site It's
All Indie!
'Squalling guitars signify Härdig’s chaotic presence,
while chugging bass parts pave the way for her intense vocals. Having produced
and played the entirety of the album, the Swedish-native’s eccentricity shines
through her Siouxsie and the Banshees-esque vocals on her latest cut, giving us
a preview of what to expect from the new record entitled ‘THIS BIG HUSH’. John
Essing Anne
Marte Eggen Joakim
Lindberg Johannes
Stjärne Nilsson Jeanette
Andersson Mimi
Svanberg Tambourine
Studios Mystic
Sons Snowhite
Snowhite Grant
Box Comedia
05.09.2019
Woohoo!
Pre-save and preorder
the new Single INFATUATION
out on Wednesday! John
Essing Anne
Marte Eggen Knut
Finsrud. Beautiful cover by Johannes
Stjärne Nilsson and
beautiful picture by Jeanette
Andersson Mixed
and mastered by Joakim
Lindberg produced
by me Elektronmusikstudion
EMS Stockholm Tambourine
Studios Mathias
Schlegel Comedia Claes
Olson Mystic
Sons Grant
Box Snowhite
Snowhite.
03.09.2019
RELEASES:
NEW SiNGLE OUT 11 SEPTEMBER 2019 !
iNFATUATiON.
26.08.2019
This Autumn there will be a series
of singles releases leading up to
the release of my new album This Big
Hush. I've kept a long time in the
shed Elektronmusikstudion
EMS Stockholm producing
it, I play guitar synth, vocals,
percussion, and more John
Essing [bob
hund]
Guitar, Anne
Marte Eggen Bass
and Knut Finsrud drums. One single
has already been released and that
is SILENCE feauturing Martin
Rössel from dom
dummaste on
piano. Mixed and mastered by Joakim
Lindberg cover
by Johannes
Stjärne Nilsson photo
by Mimi
Svanberg Mystic
Sons
04.07.2019
If you are following me here, it
would be lovely if you also followed
me on Spotify! See you there for all
the new singles and music soon to be
up there! Don't miss out! John
Essing Anne
Marte Eggen Martin
Rössel Mystic
Sons Border
Music Distribution Broken
Silence Solaris-Empire Solaris
Empire Comedia Claes
Olson Joakim
Lindberg
20.06.2019
I am so happy that I got to meet
Patti Smith last night. It was
nervous to read to her her own words
from people have the power. She
listened with a warmth and intensity
that washed my nervousness away and
left was the words and the
connection between us. She wrote her
name and People have the power in my
notebook, with my lyrics, to thank
me. I read the motivation to her for
getting the Joe Hill prize. She
lives and breathes through her art
the values that he died for.
Solidarity Equally, brotherhood,
sisterhood, freedom, and hope -#pattismith #joehill #joehillmusicawards #backstage #stockholm #waterfront #stockholmwaterfront #sofiahärdig #sofiahardig #claesolson #comedia #jeanetteanderson #aronmattson
Photo
by; Aron
Mattsson Sofia
Härdig Patti
Smith Joe
Hill Jeanette
Andersson Claes
Olson Comedia Stockholm
Waterfront Congress Centre
13.06.2019
Tonight! Lovely Snotty Seaside in
Stockholm! I’ll be on at 20:30! Hope
to see You there!
09.05.2019
This Saturday me and John
Essing will
be Dj:ing at Timebar in
Stockholm! Johan
Risberg and Rickard
P. Stumm are
also Dj:ing!
12.04.2019
So Saturday 3rd May 2019 it's going
to be a party! I am playing at
Inkonst in Malmö. SMiSK and L.T.
Fisk are playing as well! What a
night!! Also, it will be the release
of the first single
SiLENCE
from my upcoming album! John Essing
Guitar, Anne Marte Eggen bass, Knut
Finsrud drums, Martin Rössel Piano.
And me vocals, guitar, synths,
percussion, and production. Mixed
and mastered by Joakim Lindberg.
Photo by Mimi Svanberg. READ
MORE: LiVE...
09.01.2019
Working at the finishing
mixes with Joakim Lindberg and it
turns out so good mister John Essing
himself can't help but dance! Look
out for a new album coming out this
year! Anne Marte Eggen bass Knut
Finsrud drums Martin Rössel piano
John Essing guitar. And me I am all
over the place; voice, guitar,
synths, percussion, arrangements,
production. #Hansi Friberg.
02.01.2019
What is she building in
there? I've been pretty quiet here
the last couple of months. I've been
locked into the studio day and night
in the making of a new album.
Listening back to the first couple
of mixes. And yes it was very worth
it! Look out for a new release
coming this year that I am very
excited about! It sounds ooooooohhhh
#John Essing #Anne Marte Eggen #Knut
Finsrud #Martin Rössel #Joakim
Lindberg #Hansi Friberg
#Elektronmusikstudion #EMS
#Stockholm.
2018
15.11.2018
MY WEEK
in She Makes Music! Mystic Sons
Birds Will Sing For You #Solaris
Empire #Solaris-Empire #John Essing
#Hansi Friberg #Broken Silence
SheMakesMusic-uk.tumblr.
11.11.2018
More German attention for the album
Changing The ORder Bleistriftrocker
loved HELLACOPTER! "Made in long
winter nights on the computer and
recorded in the studio with a
handful of radiant guests"
BleistiftRocker.
01.10.2018
US attention on ILLUMINATE. Featured
in Skopemag.com "Sofia Härdig’s
radiant new single, “Illuminate,” is
a fitting addition to the
80’s-themed Drive soundtrack."
SkopeMag.
19.09.2018
Great review of MY WEEK in
international Music News"Sofia‘s
latest track embodies the post-punk
sound similar to that of The Cure
and transforms it into a unique
sound of her own. The track, on
which Sofia’s commanding voice
echoes over a thickly layered
instrumentation of distorted guitar
and electronica-inspired
synthesizer, is best listened to
with the volume up."
27.08.2018
"Swedish
Sofia Härdig explores Darkness in
creative visual for ‘Illuminate’"
ILLUMINATE video directed and shot
by Stefan Sundlöf in Dubiks John
Essing Mats Hellquist Hansi Friberg
Birds Will Sing For You Mystic Sons
Solaris-Empire Solaris-Empire Border
Music Distribution Broken Silence.
Dubiks.
19.08.2018
ILLUMINATE first out in Kirkuss
Radio Solaris Empire Lounge -
Radioshow Solaris-Empire
Solaris-Empire Broken Silence Mystic
Sons Birds Will Sing For You Hansi
Friberg Bernd Harbauer John Essing
#changingtheorder #sofiahärdig
#jarihaapalainen.
SoundCloud
20.07.2018
Last nights gig at the Danish
embassy was fun! Thanks to everyone
that came and to Berlin Soup! Now I
am on my way to Bremen to play at
the lovely elo.bar tonight! Looking
very much forward to seeing the crew
att elo bar again! .
Facebook
The Changing the Order Tour continues! Upcoming tourdates:
11:th of July klubb jabuka Rosenhill Ekerö.
12:th of July Schhh - Vardagsrummet Borrby.
19:th of July Danish Embassy Berlin Soup Festival.
20:th of July elo.bar Bremen...
21:th of July Rundgång 14 Years B-Day Partay!! Plan B - malmöRundgång.
22:th of July Hafen 2 Offenbach.
25:th of July Popschutz Studio Berlin.
26:th of July Dadapost Berlin.
1:th of September Restaurang Landet Stockholm.
8:th of September Kruthus Karlskrona.
21.06.2018
Great
review in
Crack Magazine UK "This Swede
has collaborated with everyone from
Grammy Award winners The
Hellacopters to Yoshimi from
Japanese noise-rockers Boredoms and
is noted for pushing the
experimentation envelope. And she’s
pushing it on her new album, but
still doing what she does best and
that’s combing electronica with
plenty of rock elements with dark
wave synths imbued with plenty of
judder. And she’s just as happy
slowing the pace and upping the
atmospherics as she is ramping up
the BPMs."
READ MORE.
Interview with me in Radio Eins by the lovely Silke Super! Mystic Sons Hansi Friberg Broken Silence Solaris Empire Solaris-Empire Border Music Distribution Bernd Harbauer #changingtheorder
18.04.2018
The
CHANGiNG THE ORDER
Tour started 18 April and goes on
all through the summer. Check
LiVE/GiGS
for tour dates!
26.01.2018
New Single
out today; iLLUMiNATE:
Amazon |
AppleMusic |
iTunes |
Spotify
09.01.2018
iLLUMiNATE single out 26.01.2018. Produced by Jari Haapalainen,
Cover by;
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson.
Photo by;
Jessica Nettelbladt.
NEW SINGLE OUT
26.01.2018. iLLUMiNATE. produced by Jari Haapalainen.
Cover by
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson.
Photo ny;
Jessica Nettelbladt
Lejoni Produktion.
Birds Will Sing For You
Mystic Sons.
Solaris-Empire with
Sofia Härdig,
Solaris Empire,
Jessica Nettelbladt,
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and
Lejoni Produktion.
2017
31.12.2017
Happy New Year! A year that started
with the nomination to composer of
the year by
Manifestgalan and
SKAP, and ends with the
finishing mixes of the coming album
that will be released 20.04.2018!
Thank you
everyone! Photo
by
Lisa Fjellman and
Anna Lönn Franko.
21.12.2017
RELEASE
DATE FOR THE NEW ALBUM:
CHANGiNG THE ORDER 20.04.2018!
Photo by
Jessica Nettelbladt
Lejoni Produktion
John
Essing
and
Sofia
Härdig,
Jessica
Nettelbladt
and
Lejoni
Produktion.
15.12.2017
More
teasers of what to come next year...
New album will be out in April
2018. And there will be a
couple of singles and videos leading
up to that. So coming soon! Here
photo by the amazing documentary
filmmaker
Jessica Nettelbladt
Lejoni Produktion. Do check out
her films like
MONALISA STORY [nominated
for Guldbaggen]
and
Jag Är Min Egen Dolly Parton.
Solaris Empire
Bernd Harbauer.
08.12.2017
New
single iLLUMiNATE soon to come!
Photo
Jessica Nettelbladt
Lejoni Produktion cover by
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson.
With
John
Essing,
Mats
Hellquist,
Simon
James Phillips,
Johan Theorin
and
Bernd
Harbauer.
Solaris
Empire.
2016
Upcoming
Releases
29.04.2016
SP: Streets.
29.04.2016
EP: Live Sentences.
28.10.2016
NEW ALBUM:
And The Street Light Leads To The
Sea.
Sofia will release a new album,
"And the Street Light Leads to the Sea",
2016.
This time recorded with
a band in Tambourine Studios in
Sweden.
Produced by Sofia Härdig, John
Essing and Damian Press. Mixed by
Damian Press in Berlin.
Look out for uppcoming single and
video releases!
I am happy to announce that 2016
will include tours to Croatia,
Russia, Italy, Germany and some more
to come!
Also there will be a new release end
of April! And yet a another record
is on it's way that Sofia has been
working with parallel to this spring
release. An Exciting 2016 coming up!
Sofia Härdig will perform at
Supermarket Artfair 2016 in
Stockholm 23.-24. April.
Sofia will also play at
Malmö
Live with Supersilent
25. April.
And she is doing shows in
Croatia 13.-15. May 2016.
Today The new EP is being released! Also the album from 2013 is getting some attention!
"Great experimental rock from Sofia Härdig at the album 'The Norm Of The Locked Room"
News 06.04.2016
Cananda also likes the single play!
KingstonMusicReviews.CA
News
04.04.2016
Interview in A Tune For You!
After more than a decade in the
electronic sound world service is
Sofia Härdig now back with new
material. On
29:th of
April, the EP comes...
'Efter ett drygt decennium i den
elektroniska ljudvärldens tjänst är
Sofia Härdig nu tillbaka med nytt
material. Den 29 april kommer
EP:n..."
ATuneForYou.DinStudio.SE
News
04.04.2016
French Attention! STREETS Featured
in
RKC - Radio Kaos Caribou;
"Sonorously howling, strongðereal
sonic suspense".
News
04.04.2016
More Australian attetion for
STREETS, featured in Music
Injection!
SOFIA HÄRDIG releases ‘Streets’ –
New Single
Out 29:th April 2016 “Sofia Hardig
doing exciting things … beneath the
surface bubbles Sonic Youth ..
combine the blue-bottomed vocal
rock…
MusicInjection.COM
News 02.04.2016
STREETS featured in french radio tonight
RKC - Radio Kaos Caribou radio show tonight 11pm!
News
01.04.2016
And Spain likes STREETS too!!!
TheConcertInConcert.COM
News 01.04.2016
Very nice review from UK on the
single STREETS
"Hailed as “the rocktronica queen of
experimental music" in her native
Sweden… Now, ready to take the rest
of the world by storm, she has
shared her latest offering. Filled
with screeching guitars and
throbbing beats alongside the
stunning, raw vocals of Hardig,
‘Streets’ is a gritty, anthemic
creation which will suck you into
its intense energy. With shades of
Alison Mosshart, or Karen O, Hardig
has proved herself to be an
innovative artist worthy of her
royal title." Check out some of our
favourite new tracks from Brodka
Franky Flowers The Posies and Sofia
Hardig 👉
READ MORE.
READ, HEAR & SEE MORE.
News 01.04.2016
STREETS gets attention in purple
revolver!
The multi-instrumental Sofia Härdig
is the latest example of another
world class Scandinavian export
that’s been dominating the music
scene for a while now.
PurpleRevolver.COM
News 01.04.2016
Great review of new single STREETS
coming in from New York!
"Singer/songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist Sofia Härdig
is part of a growing list of Swedish
artists, who have received both
regional and international
attention; in fact, in her native
Sweden, Härdig is considered “the
rocktronica queen of experimental
music."… the EP’s first single
“Streets" possesses an urgent and
raw grittiness as slashing guitar
chords, squalls of feedback, a
throbbing bass line and propulsive
drumming are paired with anthemic
hooks and Härdig’s sultry vocals".
News 31.03.2016
NEW MUSIC: Sofia Härdig has released
the her new single which appears on
her forthcoming LP And The Street
Light Leads To The Sea.
Sofia has collaborated with the
likes of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon,
Pussy Galore’s Julia Crafitz on Free
Kitten, as well as Belle and
Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson.
READ MORE.
HEAR MORE.
News 31.03.2016
New Single STREETS featured in
Northern Transmissions!
News 30.03.2016
Preview of new Single STREETS in The
national Student! With some very
nice words!
"Brash and bold, Sofia Härdig has
unleashed her latest single
‘Streets’, a thunderous slice of
experimental rock... Hailing from
Scandinavia, the
multi-instrumentalist clashes icy
strings with a kicking drum pattern
that runs consistently. Rawness
spews from her passionate vocals,
clear and uncaged they brood
emotion... Brewing a darkness below
its turbulence, the rocktronica
queens finds freedom in
experimenting and releases
aggression with wonderful freedom...
'Streets'is noisy and cold,
industrial and even brutal, but
spills soul from the heart.
Let love in."
See more.
Read more.
News 14.03.2016
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News 14.03.2016
Sitting
Still featured in French radio! "A
dim, dynamic and
hypnotically intensifying tonal
vortex"
RKC -
Radio Kaos Caribou.
HEAR MORE.
News 10.03.2016
Oh YEY! The Album is here! to be
released 28 october! EP will be
released 29 April!
John Essing
Per Svensson
Lupo Manaro
Damian Press
Solaris-Empire
Photo:
Emma Gunnarsson Mask
Richard Szedelyi
News 09.03.2016
Ah wow sitting still nr 1 In
Aural Delights 170 Podcast! Some
alltime favourites
in there too as The Fall,
John Cale! Some good stuff!
Honoured to be in it!!!
READ MORE.
News 08.03.2016
New Single Sitting Still featured in
WithGuitars!
READ MORE.
News 08.03.2016
My Spilt Milk 15. “Sitting
Still" - Sofia Härdig: Swedish
multi-instrumentalist Sofia Härdig
recalls early ‘80s post-punk with
this slightly frenetic, edgy rocker,
but you can hear a
Sonic Youth-influenced guitar haze
deepening the sound. Härdig has
worked with Kim Gordon
and is upfront about the debt the
song owes to SY, as well as The
Pixies and Le Tigre.
The album Sitting Still is due out
February 26.
READ MORE.
News 07.03.2016
Sitting Still in
Joyzine UK radio show. In good
company with
Nirvana and
Tom Waits among others...
Yesterday's Joyzine Radio Show with
guests
Electric Trees is available now
as a podcast from
Croydonradio.
News 01.03.2016
Some very nice words on my uppcoming
release from US Kevin Renick in
ZACHARY MULE
"It’s not easy reviewing an artist
as important as Sweden’s Sofia
Hardig… Few..."
News
28.02.2016
Sitting Still featured in
mumore!
News 27.02.2016
Great review in
The Wandering Lamb!!! "With
everything at 11 from the opening
second, Sitting Still is a punchy
offering of post punk, no wave
influenced energy that will make
it’s mark wherever it’s heard.
Sofia’s commanding vocal backed by
an angular, frenetic guitar sounds
and a tight as f*&# rhythm section
will hopefully be getting her some
serious attention in the blogisphere
pretty soon."
New single featured in RebelNoise.com!!!
News
26.02.2016
Great review in Soundslide of new
single!
READ MORE.
News 24.02.2016
For
ColoRising
Mixes 22, multi-instrumentalist,
singer, composer and songwriter
Sofia Härdig has curated an
INCREDIBLE selection of punk,
krautrockingle
‘Sitting Still’ is a peek through
the window of what's next to come.
READ MORE., noise, electronica and
more. The Swedish artist has
collaborated with the likes of Kim
Gordon of Sonic Youth and Pussy
Galore's Julia Crafitz. Härdig’s
music is experimental, racing,
unafraid and unapologetic. With a
two-part EP series landing titled
'The Street Light Leads To The Sea',
her latest...
News 23.02.2016
Sitting still in rotation at
Stockholm College Radio! Tune
in!
News 22.02.2016
Sitting Still song of the day at
Sonic Ziggy!!!
News
20.02.2016
More praise!!! 'Sitting Still' is a
blistering, wall of sound,
rock'n'roll, two and a half minute,
blow out. Guaranteed to remove the
most stubborn cobwebs, if you need a
wake up call that works, this is it.
Beehive Candy
More US attention!!!
Quirkyny Chick
News 19.02.2016
Great review of new single in Nooga!
"Her music is strident and infused with a natural punk attitude and riotous rhythmic sensibility. Her voice casts a bewildering spell as the music crashes down around you. Luxuriating in post-punk's roiling waters, she treads out further than many of her astringent peers and finds an entirely new noise out there in the deep… underneath the noise is a melody that just won't leave your head— her ability to pair the ragged sounds of her music with an unforgettable melodic precision is exactly what keeps her two steps ahead of anybody else who happens to be treading these waters….. You'll be covered in sweat and grime by the time the song ends, and you'll absolutely be anxious to do it all again immediately."
Nooga
Great review of new sinlge in ColoRising!! ‘Sitting Still’ by Sofiahardig is energetic and all-out magnificent! Härdig’s latest single ‘Sitting Still’ bursts at the seams with explosive, raw energy. Like a heavy blow to the chest, there is a sonic punch that lands with sheer force, built around raging guitars and thunderous drumming that is truly an exciting delivery." ColoRising
News 18.02.2016
Zero Magazine gillar
Sofia Härdigs nya singel! Zero Magazine
"All friends of talented, swedish electronic/Indie got something to look forward too" ZeroMagazine
New Single featured in Skopemag!!! Skopemag
Great review of first single in Bucket Full Of Nails!
"A sharp knife inflicts no pain. A properly-honed edge enters and exits before one knows the damage is done. Like said metallic instrument, Sweden’s Sofia Härdig cuts deep on “Sitting Still." BucketFullOfNails
Great review! "It underlines the strong power of her voice and the impetuosness of the sound" SonOfMarketing
Listed in Aural delight among Fascinating things. "Girls with guitars making lots of noise, more of if say I…. Bobonscr
Belgian attention for new single! ConcertMonkey
News 17.02.2016
More international press! New Single in Magic Monster! Magic MonsterRecords
More UK attention! "Swedish songstress Sofia Härdig releases her impactful new single 'Sitting Still'. The multi-instrumental Sofia Härdig is the latest example of another world class Scandinavian export... " TurksAndUnderdog
The New single is hitting UK "Stylishly delivered with controlled fury and a sense of purpose, “Sitting Still" is breakneck, Punk Rock noir and the new single from Swedish experimental artist Sofia Härdig." TheAutumnRoses.Tumblr
News 16.02.2016
Premiär av Sofia Härdig nya singel "Sitting Still" från Solaris-Empire på HYMN. HYMN.
Premiär spelning av första singeln SITTING STILL från kommande albumet på
HYMN! Enjoy!!!!
John Essing Per Svensson Damian Press Solaris Empire. HYMN
News 15.02.2016
US attention!!! "great sense of urgency in this new SOFIA HÄRDIG track" in It's a trap.
2015
News November 2015
Sofia played with Lydia Lunch:
Medusa's bed; Lydia Lunch,
Zahra Mani,
Mia Zabelka on 17.11.2015
@ 20:30
Mayhem in
Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Sofia sung with Lydia as well
as perform a solo set.
READ MORE.
News February 2015
Sofia
playing with Mia Zabelka and Audrey
Lauro. Mia is currently
collaborating with Lydia Lunch
as the project, medusas bed. So this
collaboration is very Exciting.
Audrey and sofia have
collaborated in the past and kicked
off like New Wave Punk! So look out
for this!
News January 2015
This year Sofia got the honour to
write an annual review for the
Swedish music magazine SOUNDOFMUSIC.
Read about her crazy hectic and fun
2014 in her own words!
Sofia Härdig is shooting a video in
Berlin Januray 2015
with video maker Jean de Oliveira.
Sofia guest
in Susann's
Show
Radio
Impala Berlin. One hour
long interview with Sofia and 9
songs
of her played. Some interesting
unreleased material!
09.01.2015 @
7 pm and 11.01.2015
@ 11
am.
READ MORE.
News December 2014
Interview in
Solaris Empire Lounge
Radio
Impala Berlin 26.12.2014
and 28.12.2014.
READ MORE.
Listen
to
interview
on
Radio
Impala
07.12.2014.
News 12.12.2014
Sofia Härdig Rewarded
with The STIM
grant at a Cermony,
The STIM House
12.12.2014.
News 25.09.2014
Sofia Härdig has gotten a RANK
funded tour in Sweden this autumn
with two Bristol musicians.
She is also touring England, Belgium
and Germany for a couple of shows
this autumn. Look out for news on
these shows!
She is among other things playing
with John Tilbury from the legendary
English group AMM at Malmö Modern
Museum 30th October 2014.
READ MORE:
FrimSyd.se +
ModernaMuseet.se
The Next upcoming show is at The
Cube Bristol UK 24th October 2014.
READ MORE:
CubeCinema.com
Together with
Conquering Animal Sound
Two new records: One is in the
making at the moment.
2015 will be an exciting year with
lot of releases.
Sofia Härdig Featured in Radio Impala In Germany.
Radio FM interview Germany, one hour interview with Sofia LiSTEN MORE: Reboot.fm
Berlin Soup Catalogue "Sofia Härdig Sweden’s best-kept secret"
Regarding upcoming gig 29.01.2014
Brötz,Gothenburg writes: "super duo Nilsson / Härdig takes the stage.
Per-Anders Nilsson and Sofia Härdig are two giants in electronica and
free improvisation here given free rein. A must for anyone interested
in the latest in electronic impro!"
News 26.09.2013
Sofia Härdig in Swedish TV News ABC
Video Interview Berlin Ä: YouTube
News 13.04.2013
One hour interview with Sofia
in German Radio by Michael Freerix
Reboot.fm
Listen
News 25.03.2013
Sofia Härdig
secret guest at
WE ARE INDIE SH*T
Slagthuset in
Malmö 30.03.2013
amongst the other guests
e.g. Stevie
Jackson from Belle and Sebastian.
READ MORE & BUY TiCKETS.
News 21.03.2013
Sofia härdig interview in
Radio Eins.
READ MORE.
News
14.03.2013
Live
interview with Sofia Härdig in Radio
Eins 19:00-19:25
right after soundcheck and
right
before gig at Schocoladen Berlin
20:th of
March 2013.
Stay tuned at
RadioEins.DE
FM 95,8 MHz.
News
14.03.2013
Berlin Schocoladen Wednesday 20:th
of March 2013, full band line up!
Sofia is on stage 20:30.
LoFi Lounge w/ Almost Charlie [DE],
Fabrizio Cammarata [IT], Sofia
Härdig [SWE].
News 09.03.2013
Great new Review in Nordische Musik!
"THE NORM OF THE LOCKED ROOM" is
from the beginning to end
an excellent contemporary, and what
more: timeless edgy rock album!
[...]
The boring days are yesterday!"
READ MORE.
News 07.03.2013
Collaboration concert with Sofia
Härdig and
Lauren Hayes
confirmed at Inkonst,
Malmö 4:th of
April 2013.
Last time this dynamic duo played to
gether it was for Sold out house at
Inspace Edinburgh.
We are now happy to confirm
they will do an exclusive concert in
Sweden.
READ MORE.
See Poster, PDF.
New fantastic review in
german
Melodiva!
READ MORE.
Nice
Sofia Härdig Bio
in german by
Laut.de
READ
MORE.
.
News February 2013
Lovely
review in Laut.de
"The Norm Of The Locked Room
is a dark,
almost hypnotic album that takes you
into a world of its own."
READ MORE.
News 15.02.2013
Great new review by
german
Jazz Dimensions.
READ MORE.
4 stars
in Weistzeit! "One could try to make
associations to orther artist,
but let this stand as a product of
Sofia Härdig. This is so perfect!"
READ MORE.
News 27.01.2013
Playing at Göteborg International
Film Festival. This morning Sofia
was interviewed by a german radio
station.
Coming up soon! Lot great reviews
and interviews and radiorotation
coming in from Germany. And today
Nordic
Vibrations is broadcasting another
interview with Sofia plus my 45
minutes playlist of music. You can
listen
to it online from their website.
Last night Sofia played 4 hours in
the performances "I sprickorna" and
playing the last Malmö show of the
performance today between 16 and 20 at
Garaget!
News 24.01.2013
Tonight
premiere I sprickorna at
Garaget in
Malmö! Tomorrow playing at the
opening party at
Göteborg International Film Festival
at Pustervik!
At 23:00 when Sofia
play the VIP party opens
also to the public! So all of you in
Gothenburg comy by! Its going to be
a party to remember!
News 23.01.2013
More
press today! Anna Westers interview
with Sofia in
Djungeltrumman Göteborg
regarding the gig at the
opening of
Göteborg International Film Festival
this Friday. "people try to explain
what I am doing,
but I am only doing the music I want
to hear myself".
"Dark
and hypnotic ...unusual and great!"
://Albumcheck De
READ MORE.
News
23.01.2013
Article
in
Sydsvenskan
today
on the work of the cracks
"I sprickorna:
"Dance meets voice in test of
strenght"
READ MORE.
Review
in Lie In The Sound De
"The Swede Sofia Härdig has succeded
with her new album The Norm Of The
Locked Room
it's downright delicious... Those
who are looking for something
exiting and different
can't be served by anyone better
then Sofia Härdig"
READ MORE.
News
Interview
with Sofia by
Anna Wester in Djungeltrumman
Göteborg
"people try to explain what I am
doing, but I am only doing
the music I want to hear myself"
READ MORE.
News 18.01.2013
Big interview in ZERO by Johan
Arenbo
READ MORE.
News
18.01.2013
The
Norm Of The Locked Room get great
review in German Titel Magazine and
are reviewed next to Lydia Lunch
[!]
"…The result is as dark as hypnotic
and emotionally it belongs in the
Berlin of the 80s. Einstürzende
Neubauten
and Birthday Party, Krautrock
reverberation, malaria and Anne
Clark are in the air. A particular
love for the
dark and a big lust for
experimenting and still very good
and enjoyable!"
News
17.01.2013
The
CD:s are here! The Album was
released on vinyl only 5 dec. Now
the CD:s are here!
More good News
Radioeins
show about Sofia
was broadcasted again yesterday!
It's been
recorded and keep an eye out for it
coming up!
Playlist
Radioeins
News
Tuesday 15.01.2013
and Wednesday 16.01.2013
RADIO EINS ONE HOUR SPECIAL
on Sofia.
READ MORE.
News
15.01.2013
Tonight
there is a special about
Sofia's album
THE NORM OF THE LOCKED ROOM in
Radio Eins,
one of the best and most important
radio stations in Germany at 23:00.
Just follow the link to listen
online!
LiSTEN.
News 10.01.2013
Preview tip in Whiskey and Soda
READ
MORE.
News 07.01.2013
News 07.01.2013
Release date for the album The Norm Of The Locked Room
in Germany will be on Friday 01.02.2013.
News 03.01.2013
Interview in Radar Magazine out today!
"I was a bit like a mad scientist!" Sofia Härdig describes
her work with her
new album which was released on December 5. Electronica /
noise-singer who has
been called Sweden's most well-preserved secret has for more
than a year cut,
glued and pieced together an album that have met a very
positive response.
READ MORE.
News 23.12.2012
Interview in Rockfoto
"Sofia Härdig has in just a few years carved out a niche
of her own in the
Swedish music landscape."
READ MORE.
News 20.12.2012
Big praising review in Sound Of Music "Her best. When
is it time
for this consummate, seeking musicians to be known as she
deserves?"
READ MORE.
News 14.12.2012
Cover in
Göteborgs Fria 14.12.2012;
READ MORE.
News 13.12.2012
• Hoffa Music Blog writes about the release party tomorrow
Friday 14.12.2012
"definitely an album more should discover
[...] it'll be a gallant evening!"
READ MORE.
• Gothenburg nonstop interviewed Johnny
Essing about Sofia
Härdig.
READ MORE.
News 12.12.2012
•
PLAZA number 1, 2013
Read PDF.
News 11.12.2012
•
This Friday 14.12.2012
it is time for the Stockholm
Release party!
Here with
a smaller line up Sofia
Härdig
and John
Essing!
After the gig there will be crazy
dancing to Music Box the band /
Club
Christian
Gabel and Calle Olsson.
News
07.12.2012
•
NWT interview;
READ MORE.
Read
PDF.
News 06.12.2012
•
UppsalaTidningen;
READ MORE; Page
1,
23 +
24.
Read
PDF.
•
Interview in
Swedish Radio
Uppland,
Sofia Härdig
-
rock star who works nine to
five
Listen.
READ MORE
&
LiSTEN.
•
Interview in Skånes Fria "I get hooked on
whats not perfect".
Read PDF:s;
Intro.
Story.
•
Interview with Sofia in Direkt press Göteborg
"Sofia
Celebrates her record release at Kolonis christmas party".
Read PDF.
News 05.12.2012
•
Nice review in City! They give Sofia
four plus even on their front page!
"One of this years
most exiting releases" ://Mattias Grenholm,
CITY.
Read PDF; Page
1 +
18.
•
Sofia Live in Radio Uppland at 17:00-17:30 as "The Profile of
The Day".
"Sofia Härdig
- rock star who works nine to
five"
Listen.
READ MORE
&
LiSTEN.
•
Interview with Sofia
in MalmöKanalen at 12:00.
•
Lokaltidningen
Malmö;
READ
MORE.
Read PDF.
News 04.12.2012
•
Review in City
Malmö
Read PDF.
•
Now we can reveal that Sofia is playing with her band at
Gothenburg
International Film Festival
Opening ceremony After Party at Pustervik 25.01.2013.
•
In relation to the
release The Norm Of The Locked Room tomorrow Wednesday
05.12.2012
The Music Magazine GAFFA asks Sofia to put together
a special
playlist for them of some music she likes... Enjoy!
READ & LiSTEN.
•
In addition to the
Magazine Gaffa, The paper City is also
interested in Sofias
music taste and asked her for a special list.
Published in todays City in relation to the album release
tomorrow [5.12.2012] So here comes another List!
Read PDF /
TiFF.
News 03.12.2012
•
Interview
with Sofia in MalmöKanalen at
12:00 Wednesday 05.12.2012.
•
Tunigo writes about
the release of Sofia's
new Album and the gig in Stockholm
READ MORE.
•
Tip about the release of the album The Norm Of
The Locked Room in Music Magazine Filter.
READ MORE.
News 30.11.2012
18 minuter;
READ MORE.
Read PDF: Page
1
+
4.
News 23.11.2012
•
Article in Helsingborgs Dagblad News 17.11.2012 "Rock on
Order"
about that Sofias performance will be sold as
a piece of art at
Dunkers Kulturhus 30.11.2012. It will
come in a limited edition
of 100 signed copies.
Orders can be made from
Multipel.
News 22.11.2012
•
Release party
in
Malmö will happen 07.12 19:00 at
Galleri
Format.
The band will
perform live and there will be a photo exibition,
Flying Pigs and DJ:s Lot of friends
of the band will contribute
with guest appearences special happenings and performances
during the night!
Located at Friisgatan 15 B, Malmö.
duo behind the film SOUND OF NOISE and the legendary short film
"Music for one apartment and six drummers". Mask by Richard Szedelyi
Music and performance by Sofia Härdig. Released on Margit Music
distributed by Border Music Distribution. On this video version
Sofia performs solo.
News
16.11.2012
•
The album The Norm Of The Locked Room has been chosen the "best right now"
according
to Claes Olson in
Musikindustrin. It got good reviews too, Olson
describes it
as "electronically processed rock" that is
"experimental and
international". He describes it as dark
and chronologically references the
album somewhere around
the Velvet Undergrounds' magical Black Angel's Death
Song saying that it is "perfect for dark November nights."
READ MORE.
News
12.11.2012
•
Video Interview with Sofia done by Franziska Kuffer in
relation to her gig at
Ä
in Berlin 14.11.2012
See and
hear more!
News 01.11.2012
STREETS VIDEO VERSiON. Making it The Video of The Day. This video is done by
Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, one of the men in the duo behind the film Sound Of
Noise and the legendary short film "Music for one apartment and six drummers".
On this special video version of the song Streets, Sofia is performing solo.
Gaffa is giving it good reviews "very hypnotic and compelling" Have a look!
Gaffa.se/nyhet/66021 The single will be released 19.11.2012.
Wednesday 24.10.2012 at 21:30. Listen more!
News
12.09.2012
•
Sofia will do a cooperation with
Lauren Hayes in Scotland in
October, as well as a tour in Germany in November.
News
08.09.2012
•
Confirmed that the Album The Norm Of The Locked Room will be
released on
Solaris Empire
in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
News
07.09.2012
•
Release date for the New Album The Norm Of The Locked Room
is confirmed
5:th of December 2012 on
Margit Music
News
27.08.2012
•
Release of The Single and Video
The Norm.
News
16.08.2012
•
German Tour is being booked for October–November.
Also
dates
in Glasgow and Edinburgh to be confirmed in October.
News
25.07.2012
•
Norberg Festival is being sold out and
Sofia listed among the Top Names
Hngr.SE
News
23.07.2012
•
Sofia Listed together with Bill Drummond as
one of the Top 8 to see at
Norberg Festival.
News
20.07.2012
•
Sofia has a week of Recidency at EMS Stockholm
[Elektronmusik Studion,
Stockholm]
Composing new
Material for a special Solo Performance at Norberg
Festival.
News
26.06.2012
•
Premiere
Gig
for
The
New Live
Band
in
Sweden,
Skånes Konst,
Bragegatan
17, Malmö,
Tuesday 3:rd of July
2012,
21:00.
R.
Stevie Moore
plays
also!
News
25.06.2012
•
The Single and Video "The Girl In The Window" gets great
reviews in
Hoffas Music blog;
Sofia continues her Journey towards Nirvana
News 25.06.2012
Release of the second single with video "The
Girl In The Window"
from the forthcomming
album The Norm Of The Locked Room.
Video concept and cutting Stefan
Sundlöf.
Filmed by Kate Erhardhtin, Berlin.
ViDEO:
Youtu.be. LiSTEN:
Spotify. BUY:
iTunes.
News 04.06.2012
•
The Single Low And Slow from The Forthcoming album The Norm Of The Locked
Room gets brillant reviews;
"Sofia
Hardig delivers a Michelin starred recipe
here on the basis that 'less
is more' and
if this starter dish is anything
to go by, her forthcoming album is
going to be one of this
year’s great banquets
of contemporary European music...
Low and slow is shockingly good."
://Steve Racket, Baltic Briefing
://Steve Racket, Baltic Briefing
FULL REViEW.
News 24.05.2012
MAYHEM
NEWS LETTER
•
BOST-X
feat Sofia Härdig; Per Buhl Acs, Jørgen Teller, Bruno Ferro
Xavier
da Silva,
Tomas Ortved, Jørgen Teller & Bruno Ferro Xavier
da Silva
started a duo-co-lab autumn
2009 - and loads of great
visionary nights
later it dawned and culminated in the
creation
of a crazy mad-star-band
with the two danish veteraniosos Tomas
Ortved
[Sort Sol, Alive With
Worms] and eternal mad punk-singer
Per Buhl Acs [No Knox &
Cyklon
AntiCyklon] plus mr. Ron Schneiderman
[Sunburned Hand of The Man].
Sofia Härdig has been called Sweden's
best-kept secret. She has worked
with
musicians from The Hellacopters,
bob hund, Free Kitten, Bordoms and
OOIOO.
And Musicians from the free
improv scene as Mats Gustavsson, Dror
Filer,
Yoshimi and many more.
She has been hailed as both an
"electronica queen"
and "the next
girl in experimental music". She has
had double-page spreads
in
international press, and the word is that
it's just a matter of
time
before she will become a household name
amongst the rock
aficionados.
In Denmark the press is already saying
that Sofia
gives new hope
for the Swedish rock scene!
News 18.05.2012
•
Interview of Sofia as feautured artist and article in Metro.
Read PDF.
News 10.05.2012
•
The single "Low And Slow" from the forthcoming album
The Norm Of
The Locked Room is feaured
and get good
reviews in
Hoffas Music Blog;
Read PDF.
News 07.05.2012
•
Release of the first single "Low And Slow" from the
forthcomming
album
The Norm Of The Locked Room on
Margit Music!
features John
Essing [Bob Hund]
James
Welburn [Tony Buck].
LiSTEN:
Soundcloud,
Spotify. BUY:
iTunes.
News 09.05.2012
•
Sofia is booked to perform a solo show at
Norberg
Festival.
27.07.2012
Sofia Härdig will represent Fylkingen at
their showcase at Minerlaven.
News 01.05.2012
•
Lots of new gigs booked check out in
The GIG section. Among them
Sofia
and the new live band
is booked to perform together with the
Legend R.
Stevie Moore in Malmö 03.07.2012
•
Currently working on new album featuring Musicians John Essing
[Bob Hund], Henrik Svensson [Doktor Cosmos],
Per Svensson [Freddie
Wadling] and more...
RELEASES: Singles; May
+ June + July. Album; August 2012.
•
Sofia
has started working with
The
Ghettoblaster Ensemble
22.04.2012
•
Sofia performs with the Legendary
Ikue Mori
and
Lotte Anker at
Skånes
Konst, Malmö.
20.04.2012
•
Sofia is invited as DJ at Inkonst Malmö at
the concert with
Kevin Drumm & Thomas Ankersmit.
16.04.2012
•
The live band has gathered for their first rehearsal and it sounds great!
The very fine line up is Jörgen Teller, John Essing,
Knut Finserud, Per Svensson and
Sofia Härdig.
16.03.2012
•
The Piece GULP that Sofia
has done together with
the Artist Emma Gunnarsson has gain attention and good reviews.
•
The Swedish Newspaper
"Helsingborgs dagblad"
thought that Emma's
and Sofia's pieces
were the strongest at the Exibition "More Passion"
at
Dunkers Kulturhus. Also The
Newspaper "Sydsvenska Dagbladet"
had nice things to say about their piece
GULP.
16.03.2012
•
"The appropriation is strong. In the obscure
halls hovers a match
charged with pain and longing.
Sofia Härdigs voice and music belong
together with Emma's video, in which skin, throat and
moisture mixes
with the warm, sad song, and abstract
thumping
electronics. Together
the belief of the
passions
skinless
vulnerability, where the wound
and opening are two sides of the same
feeling."
SVENSKA: "Anslaget är starkt. I de dunkla salarna svävar en
stämma
laddad av smärta och längtan. Sofia Härdigs röst och musik hör ihop
med Emma Gunnarssons video, där hinnor, svalg och fukt blandar sig
med den
varma, sorgsna sången och abstrakt dunkande elektroniken.
Tillsammans
gestaltar de passionens hudlösa utsatthet,
där sår och öppning är två
sidor av samma känsla."
://Thomas Millroth,
Sydsvenska
Dagbladet
16.02.2012
•
18:00-22:00 opening of the exhibition More Passion at
Dunkers Kulturhus,
Helsingborg. Sofia has done music for
artfilm GULP by Emma Gunnarsson.
Sofia will also do
a live performance piece at the opening.
January 2012
•
US Premiere of the documentary "Stekta Sparvar"
by Anna Wessman and Nilsmagnus Sköld.
2011
10.08.2011
•
Swedish Radio P4 makes a live cast from
Det Magiska Trädet
://Sveriges Radio
•
04.08.2011
Article about
Det Magiska Trädet ://Sydsvenskan
•
30.06.2011
The English Baltic Briefing On Sofia Härdig.
Spring 2011
•
"Expect an explosion of inteligently crafted sounds from
Sweden's Sofia Härdig in the Summer. She's working on a new
album - and the only thing we know is to expect the unexpected
from a musician whose artistic fire burns as deep as her orginality."
Interview with Sofia in SKAP Magazin's spring Issue.
The Magazine for Swedish Composers of Popular Music.
://SKAP-nytt [PDF]
Week 19, 2011
•
Interview with Sofia in
Trelleborgs Allehanda
"Sofia Härdig has with
her dreamlike electronic rock won the hearts of the music press."
://E-pages.dk
•
Sofia is asked to make beats and sounds for some tracks on Lotta
Wenglen's new album. A little instrumental piece called "Thanks".
Made out of Sofia's noises and beats got attention and good
reviews in Sonic Magazine and was compared to Kate Bush.
Sofia is asked to write poems for the Patti Smith Exibition in Västervik.
Her piece gets very well received.
And is exhibited in an own stand and
is in the news letter for the exhibition.
12.11.-13.11.2008
•
One hour special in
P2 monitor.
Erik Mikael Karlsson went to Berlin to interview Sofia. Meet Sofia
Härdig -
Swedish sound-artist, singer och musician with a background
in both heavy
rock and improvised music. Sofia is just about to
release her new album
"Dream" with her personal barb-wire
electronica!
Listen to the program on the net:
://P2 monitor
06.11.2008
•
The third single RENAMED from the album DREAM was
released.
Listen here!
://Renamed
•
album "The Need to Destroy" Sofia sets of to Berlin to
work on her next album "Dream". There she created her own
unique soundlandscapes isolated in her studio and during
her nightly excursions through the city. It's hot, tight
and intensive, raw music from one of Swedens best voices.
Sofia Härdig's fullenghts album "Dream" is a shimmering
pearl full of stories and impressions. Naked and near,
intensive- the beautiful and fragile is crushed against
the hard and the raw. "Dream" stretches over cool, sharp,
sexy electronica, heavy beats and daring soundlandscapes.
Sofia was rewarded with by the Swedish artcouncil for
her album Dream with a working grant.
05.-11.01.2009 21.11. 18.11.
•
Sofia was guest blogger for one week in
Backstage-bloggen.
•
Radio interview and live gig
"Pluto is guested by the electronica
queen Sofia Härdig who will preform a couple of songs live in the
studio. Her new album dream is cool sharp electronica with heavy
beats an daring soundlandscapes."
://Pluto.
•
Radio interview.
://Eskilstuna Radio.
09.03.
•
Radio interview.
://P2 Monitor 9-10 pm Wednesday.
03.03.2008
•
WHAT IT WAS From the upcoming album Dream WHAT IT WAS is the first
single from Sofia Härdig's upcoming, fourth album Dream. After she
dedicated herself increasingly to synthesizers, programming and strange
sounds on her last album The Need to Destroy , Sofia continues, on the
follower, even more precisely with harder, electronical, industrial noise.
What It Was is a combination of facinating and captivating sound landscapes
and catches the listener with Sofia's distinctive, thrilling and unique voice.
On the single are as well two other jewels from the upcoming longplayer,
the marvelous
Renamed and Million Years. The single is featured in
Kalejdoskop
://Swedish Radio P2.
12.12.2006
•
Sofia has finished working on her comming album and watch out on this side
for news about it. The New album was written recorded and perfomed by Sofia
in Berlin. It is an astonishing album. A shimmering pearl, beautiful and raw.
Sofia has been rewarded with the STIM grant for her album The Need To Destroy.
© June 2011–April 2023 Sofia Härdig & Martin Thörnquist.