Jacob Hellenrud
Children of the Sün
Hi! It's going great! A bit stressful with all that comes with releasing an album and going back to school again and so on... But I couldn't be happier!
The band was formed in 2017 in the deep woods of Värmland in Sweden after a soul-concert our school made. So you could say in a way that the soul brought us together. (haha) Our bass-player and lead-singer wanted to create a Rock band and play covers by idols of their such as Janis Joplin and Led Zeppelin, but when I got involved we started to write our own music. Soon people started to join our music-collective and after a couple of weeks we were Children of the Sün, and hopefully we'll never stop playing.
It has been really cool to be able to work with The Sign Records. We are all big fans of other bands at the label and to be a part of it is a dream come true. The album has got a good receive I believe from our old fans but we've noticed that we've get a lot of new fans along the road as well, and for that we are grateful. We are satisfied with the result and we hope that more people will discover 'Flowers'.
We wanted to make a concept-album about earth in the beginning. And for that reason we wanted to use flowers as a metaphor for humans. We grow from being a seed to become this beautiful flower. None looks the same. But everyone is beautiful. It's also our reincarnation in a way. It is Children of the Sün becoming one with nature. The rest is up to the listener to discover their own idea of what the album is to them.
I would totally agree. We love music, and we love writing music. We don't define ourselves with just one genre, rather we write music with the world as our inspiration. Maybe that is a reason why the songs sound kind of different to each other sometimes. It's a musical goulash of all the music that we love.
Simple. We are old souls in young bodies. Basically we're born in the wrong era. After hours digging through our parents' vinyl-collections, we've all found a connection to this particular genre and era. It touches a bit of your soul and gets you high on music, and that's still legal. The music doesn't have algorithms made by a computer - It is made by real people with real feelings. That for us is very important because we put a lot of emotions into our own songs. We think that it is impossible to create something with emotional value without putting a bit of your soul into it.
I think that they go well together. Often the spirituality comes first and it's the ''main-focus'' of each song. Then we lay the ''groove'' to back it up.
I almost always come up with the idea of the songs. Then Josefina writes the lyrics. Then we combine the two and arrange it together with the rest of the band. It is at this point the song becomes more than a just a ''Demo''. For every member of the band contributes with their own experience and their own style of playing the instrument.
Even though many songs are about depression and anxiety about the climate, there are more songs about taking care of each other and becoming one with earth. So it's a balance between good and bad. But it is a records about more than hope. It's a celebration of life.
Music is hope, music is what unites people and music is healing. Therefore, we can never lose hope. But we can try to affect people with our music. I agree with you, but we can never stop living. If we do, then it's already too late
It's actually kind of funny. We reached out to The Sign Records two years ago when we were going to release our Debut-ep. We didn't get any answers back then. But a couple of weeks before we signed with The Sign we got a mail from Kaj at the label saying; ''Sorry for the late response'' But the important thing is that they responded and we couldn't be luckier to be able to work with them. They are professionals dealing with 8 kids that wants to play music. Respect to them for dealing with us.
I would have to say "Flowers". It's a different song for us. I wrote it as a metaphor for earth. The song is touching more in the folk-genre which I love and it's easy to listen to and remember the hook. It's hard to describe what I think is so good about it, but I really enjoyed writing it and I enjoy playing it. I don't think that it is the strongest song on the album, but it is having an aura of sitting in the forest and just listen to what the nature has to say to you.
For now, we are looking for bookers in Europe. A dream would be to buy a ''hippie-van'' and drive through Europe and play at every venue that wants us. But for the future we want to make a new album with new songs and try out things we haven't done before, maybe add more instruments? We'll see!
That is so nice to hear! I hope to hear from you again.
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