Christian Kjellvander is a Swedish

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....

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

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History

Before going solo, he played in the alt country band Loosegoats

Loosegoats

Loosegoats was a Swedish lo-fi rock group formed in 1994 by Christian Kjellvander, Johan Hansson, Jens Löwius and Mårten Löfvander. They released their first mini CD, Small Lesbian Baseball Players, in May 1995. Shortly thereafter Mårten left and got replaced by Anders Tingsek.In 1996 Jens left the...

. They released three studio albums and one EP collection, before parting ways in 2001. In the summer of 2000, Christian along with some fellow band mates and brother, Gustaf Kjellvander

Gustaf Kjellvander

Jan Gustaf Lennart Kjellvander , was a Swedish singer-songwriter. Before starting the Swedish outfit The Fine Arts Showcase he had two bands, Sideshow Bob and Songs of Soil .Gustaf was born in Sweden but grew up outside of Seattle...

, recorded "The Painted Trees of Ghostwood" under the name Songs of Soil.
After the dismantle of Loosegoats, Christian decided to go solo and after spending July 2002 in a studio in southern Sweden, Songs From A Two-Room Chapel was released in the fall of the same year. The following 18 months Christian toured in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia as well as Europe and a shorter US tour with The Cardigans

The Cardigans

The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in the town of Jönköping in October 1992.Their debut album Emmerdale gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album Life that an international reputation was secured...

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In the summer of 2005, Christian returned to the studio with his band, Lazy Grace Frontier, to record the follow-up to the both critically and commercially successful solo debut. "Drunken Hands" was the first single from Christian's second solo effort Faya, released in late 2005. Kjellvander spent 2006 touring both with Lazy Grace Frontier and alone in Scandinavia and Europe.

In early 2007, it was announced on Christian's homepage that he would be supporting Logh

Logh (band)

Logh is a post-rock band formed in 1998 in Lund, Sweden. With four members, their first LP was released in 2002 on Bad Taste Records, incorporating elements of indie rock and shoegaze with hushed vocals and introspective lyrics...

 on their European tour in April and May. During the summer of 2007, Kjellvander kept a low profile, only performing a few solo acoustic gigs, while recording his third solo effort at Mission Hall Studio. The working title of the album has been "I saw her from here, I saw here from her", which Kjellvander revealed on his MySpace

MySpace

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blog. Several titles of potential tracks have been released, among them "Somewhere Else", "Two Souls", and "Until The Mourning Comes". The latter was recorded on a digital camera by Christian himself and released as a YouTube-video by his record label Startracks at the end of July. In mid-October, "Two Souls" was released as the first, official single from Kjellvander's third solo effort. The song can be found on Christian's MySpace page and on YouTube with the official video. Additionally, Kjellvander's booking agent, Luger, has released several new press photos.

With Loosegoats

• Small Lesbian Baseball Players (EP, 1995)
• Mule Habit (EP, 1996)
• Country Crock (EP, 1996)
• For Sale By Owner (1997)
• A Mexican Car in the Southern Field (EP-collection, 1997)
• Disdialogic (EP, 1997)
• Plains, Plateaus and Mountains. Rivers, Lakes and Seas. (1999)
• Her, the City, Et Al. (2001)

Solo albums

• Songs From a Two-Room Chapel (2002)
• Introducing the Past (2003)
• Faya (2005)
• I Saw Her From Here, I Saw Here From Her (2007)
• The Rough And Rynge (2010)

External links

• http://www.christiankjellvander.com/