Artist: Virke
Tilte: Hovsjö 80
Format: Vinyl 12″
Label: Flora & Fauna
Cat nr: FFLP41
Genre: Electronica/Folk
Playlist:
| A1 | Anneli | 4:49 | |
| A2 | Sydgården (psykvården i Hovsjö) | 5:43 | |
| A3 | Tills Det Ljusnar | 3:24 | |
| A4 | Valium | 2:47 | |
| A5 | Under Motorvägen | 4:55 | |
| B1 | Kol Och Salpeter | 1:21 | |
| B2 | E4 Söderut | 3:54 | |
| B3 | Måsnarens Strand | 4:45 | |
| B4 | Zundapp KS50 | 4:11 | |
| B5 | Ungkarlshotellet I Saltskog | 2:10 |
Early summer mornings, highway transitways, cheap beer & cigarettes and an unyielding hope for the future. Hovsjö 80 is a unrequested soundtrack to a nonexistent movie about growing up as a teenager in Hovsjö around 1980.
Cover: Tomas Melinder
Mastering: Tomas Bodén
Virke are Billie Lindahl, Rickard Jäverling and Henrik von Euler. The basics for the album was recorded in Årsta during the spring of 2020. Add-ons were recorded in Skillinge at Magnus Sveningsson’s house of prayer. The album is instrumental and the main setup is: Aria Diamond drum machine, Juno-60 synthesizer and Fender Jaguar guitars. Extra drums and percussion on selected tracks by Martin Sörbom and Niklas Korssell. The girl on the cover is our friend Anneli Rudström and the picture was taken by her father Anders Rundgren in Hovsjö 1980.
