Gig at Kalmar Jazzclub

The 11th of December I had a gig at Kalmar Jazzclub. It was together with some local musicians that I´ve played with before, several times, but never as a whole group. It was really amazing, after just one rehearsal we did a great concert with music written mainly by swedish jazzmusicians. We got great reviews from the audience and that gave us the idea to maybe continue playing together in the future.

The musicians were: Olof Nilsson; piano, Jonathan Lundberg; drums, Jens Nilsson; sax, Vlado Markovic; bass and me on vocals.

Thank you guys, it was great! And thanks to everyone that came to the concert!

Nefertiti in March

I´m playing at the jazzclub Nefertiti in March 2011. Check this out:

http://www.nefertiti.se/program/?view=1227

A visit to the school

Last Thursday I packed my bag and traveled to the eastcoast, that´s where I grew up by the way. I´ve been talking to the head master of the music education of Högalids Folkhögskola, Anna Brewitz, for a while now, about me visiting the school and talk to the kids about the University of Music and life afterwards. The kids are not kids, really, they´re more like 20-26. But anyway, I got the chance to pop by last friday and we had an amazing time. There where about 10 students present and they where really nice and TALENTED! After talking alot, discussing music and singing, we did this execise where everyone stands in a ring and someone does a short rythmic thing and repeats it, over and over again. And then the next person adds something on top of that, anything that the person feels like. And then it continues like that until everyone does something and wonderful music appears! Seriously, I was very impressed by them. So many innovating ideas. It was great!

In the end we talked about creating music and everyone said that they write music, more or less. That´s really gratifying, I´m very happy that they strive for finding their own way of expressing themselves. Like a finish, I played a song from my upcoming CD. They where the first once to hear it and I hope they liked it.

Thank you very much Högalid for having me! I had a blast!

Waiting...

My record is sent for mastering at Bohus Studio and I´m waiting for it to be done. Hopefully it won´t take too long and when it´s ready I will start design the cover. My dear friend Sanna Larsson will help me with some cool painted pictures and Calle Wärnelöv has been taking some real ones of me. My sister in law Anna Bohlin will do the layouts.

This will definitely be a kick-ass cover! Keep your eyes open for further information and maybe some...previews....

My record- Facing south

As I´ve told you all before (if you follow my blog) I´m planning my first record. It´s really hard work and it takes a lot of energy to think everything through, it has to be perfect! I´m really picky, good or bad; I dont know yet...

After alot of brooding I´m finally done with the mixing part and yesterday I got the CD from the sound engineer Christer Olofsson. I listened to it while I made dinner today (greek pie with chicken, feta and halloumi...nice) and I´m so proud! It´s not often that I can admit that I´ve done something good but this time I can honestly say that this sounds really nice. The music is great; the arrangements, the musicians, the sound, the vocals...everything! And I´m so, so, so very happy about this project.

Next step is sending the CD to mastering. I have a few connections and we´ll see what happens. I´ll keep you posted!

I want to take the opportunity and tell you about Christer Olofssons studio, Sunninge Sound. It´s located close to Uddevalla so it´s easy to travel there and if you ever hire Christer, you will get a sound of highest quality. Here´s his website:

http://web.me.com/sunningesound

My hairstyle

Uploaded a picture of my hairstyle from the photosession for my cd cover. It´s made by Malin Bohlin at Studio Konstrukt. If you ever need a haircut in Gothenburg, she´s the right person to visit.
Thank you Malin!

And so she became a...

...manager over her own record company "Maria Rylander Music", or "MaRy Music"!

It all started with my tour to Japan. After that I felt that I wanted to take my career seriously and do something about my situation, soon being graduated from a bachelor programme in music with no job. When it hit me, that I wanted to do a record, I realized that I could not do that without the help from the musicians I worked with in Japan. And therefor I brought the drummer Sebastiaan Kaptein to Sweden and with alot of help from Yasuhito Mori, managed to get a great soundengineer in Uddevalla, Christer Olofsson. Of course I had to have Simon Westman on piano, who else?! The recording went great and Im so happy.

I was lucky because my dear friend from Belgium, Vanessa Matthys, was free from commitments on the dates of recording. So she came over to Sweden and did some backup vocals on three songs. It was absolutely amazing!
I also got my dear friend Vyvienne Long from Ireland to do some celloparts on two songs. It was a bit hard to bring her to Sweden so we decided to send the music back and forth instead. I havent heard it yet but Im positive it´s going to sound wonderful!

After alot of thinking I decided to start my own record company. I dont want to go around to other labels asking and begging them to love me and to give me a record deal...it feel so time-consuming. So I do it myself, everything! With a little help from my friends of course.

This is the new trademark for my business. It´s painted by my talented friend Sanna Larsson.