Vive La Différence!
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Vive La Différence! is Swedish Indie Pop
band Eggstone
's third album, which was released in Sweden
and Japan
in January 1997. It was the first - and last - full-length release by the band on their own record label Vibrafon. The album was preceded by the single "Never Been a Better Day", as well as the sheet music for the entire album, in December 1996.
Vive La Différence!, along with the two previous Eggstone albums, Eggstone in San Diego and Somersault, were re-issued on vinyl in 1997 by Vibrafon Records.
Swedish Indie Pop
In the start of the 2000s, Swedish indie bands found their way into the international music scene.A Camp, the solo project by front singer Nina Persson from The Cardigans, released her self-titled debut album in 2001...
band Eggstone
Eggstone
Eggstone is a Swedish Indie Pop band, formed in 1986. The three members - Per Sunding , Patrik Bartosch and Maurits Carlsson - were raised in the small coastal town of Lomma, outside Malmö...
's third album, which was released in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
in January 1997. It was the first - and last - full-length release by the band on their own record label Vibrafon. The album was preceded by the single "Never Been a Better Day", as well as the sheet music for the entire album, in December 1996.
Vive La Différence!, along with the two previous Eggstone albums, Eggstone in San Diego and Somersault, were re-issued on vinyl in 1997 by Vibrafon Records.
Track listing
- "Head Around" – 5:11
- "Supermeaningfectlyless" – 3:20
- "Birds in Cages" – 4:48
- "Never Been a Better Day" – 4:40
- "Taramasalata" – 4:32
- "Il Trascurato" – 4:17
- "April and May" – 3:30
- "Marabous" – 4:26
- "Still All Stands Still" – 3:00
- "Neil" – 4:29
- All songs written by EggstoneEggstoneEggstone is a Swedish Indie Pop band, formed in 1986. The three members - Per Sunding , Patrik Bartosch and Maurits Carlsson - were raised in the small coastal town of Lomma, outside Malmö...
.
Credits
- Patrik Bartosch – GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, Backing vocals, KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, VibraphoneVibraphoneThe vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.... - Maurits Carlsson – DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, Backing vocals - Per Sunding – Lead vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... - Åsa Håkansson – ViolinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
on "Birds in Cages" and "Taramasalata" - Anna Bergström – Violin on "Birds in Cages"
- Gabriele Freese – Violin on '"Birds in Cages"
- Stefan Pöntinen – Violin on "Birds in Cages"
- Ronny Weber – Violin on "Birds in Cages"
- Sofi Sykfont – FluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
on "Birds in Cages" - Johan Fransén – ClarinetClarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
on "Birds in Cages" - Gabriel Litsgård – BassoonBassoonThe bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
on "Birds in Cages" - Ing-Marie Aronsson-Litsgård – Cor anglaisCor anglaisThe cor anglais , or English horn , is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family....
on "Birds in Cages" - Susanne Holmström – Violin on "Taramasalata"
- Inga Zeppezauer – Violin on "Taramasalata"
- Anna Sundborg – Violin on "Taramasalata"
- Petter Lindgård – TrumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
on "Taramasalata", "Still All Stands Still" and "Neil" - Jens Lindgård – TromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
on "Taramasalata" and "Neil" - Peter Dahl – Trombone on "Still All Stands Still"