After five years of hard work in the same direction it seemed as a good idea to make some changes to A Tenderversion Recording. TVR has now recruited new blood and has relocated from Gothenburg to Malmö in the very south of Sweden. Above you can see the new TVR-logo and soon we’ll have a new and improved website up.
2009 will be a lot about expanding what has been built up since 2004 but as importantly it’ll be about exploring new paths and directions to find and match different ways for different people to express themselves. Right now we don’t even know ourselves where this initiative will lead us but we know it’s gonna be a lot of fun finding out!

But, it’s not all about visions, ideas and making plans. This spring is filled to the brim with stuff waiting to happen. Scraps Of Tape has a new album coming out. It’s called Grand Letdown and is being released in Scandinavia/Europe in March and in Japan later this year. Touring in Sweden, Europe and Japan is to follow.
Both Audrey and September Malevolence are getting their latest albums released in Japan. Audrey will also head over to Japan to play the Arabaki Rock Fest in Sendai 25-26 April followed by a few exclusive shows to coincice. Europe will be getting more of their fair share of touring this spring as well. Audreys The Fierce And The Longing is getting a release in UK, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia and a lot of touring is being planned.
But it’s not spring yet and while the winter is still raging (or more like raining away) we’re happy to be introducing a new/old face to the TVR-family. Martin Lundmark from September Malevolence is finishing up his debut EP right as you read this. Under the name Peterbilt he plays songs in the same spirit as José González, Owen and Mark Kozelek and we’ll be happy to present it to you very soon on a limited edition 3” CD. Classy!

Listen to the titletrack from Grand Letdown by Scraps Of Tape here:

Today the Swedish national newspaper Dagens Nyheter published a debate article we wrote. We discuss the absurdity of suing your own fans and that we need to use carrots rather than sticks in our efforts to achieve a better and sustainable music climate.

In a brief we say:
- it is pointless and silly to hunt your fans,
- instead we focus on music and welcome those who want to develop new services,
- and the future model is to have several models. There will not be one replacement for the cd

Read the whole article in Swedish here, or the Google translated English version here.

The Swedish Model would like to honors one of Sweden’s best musicians and songwriters of all time. Once again we are reminded that life is so fragile. Esbjörn Svensson’s way too early death is a loss, first of all for his family, but also for the whole world’s music fans. He has been involved, both as a member of his lovely e.s.t. and as a piano player and arranger, in some of our favorite albums. Unfortunately we feel that he had yet to do his master piece since he always took things forward.

Rest in peace.
Love
/The Swedish Model

Listen to “Seven Days Of Falling” from the album with the same name.

If you’re in Sweden you can now enjoy a nationwide The Swedish Model campaign. As always we are very humble and the clear message to the world is “All your fans are belong to us”. Beautiful phrase, right? OK, we are a bit nerdy and we’re loving it.

The picture of the poster is borrowed from Tor Rauden Källstigen (of Boeoes Kaellstigen) at Dist. He understood our message and offers a good description to it.

Today there have been a hearing in the Swedish parliament about “copyright on the internet”. We where invited and gave our positive picture of the future. Here is our speech. (Unfortunately only in Swedish at the moment)