In our 79th instalment of “Stumbled Upon”, we meet Swedish rockers Small Feet, and chat about the Stockholm music scene, their upcoming US tour, and the Aussie links to the debut record From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean.
Musician/Band Name:
Small Feet
Website / Social Media:
smallfeetmakesmusic.com
Facebook / Soundcloud / Twitter
Genre:
Indie
Members & their roles:
On the record we all play a bunch of different instruments and sing but in general terms it looks like this:
Simon Stålhamre: Voice, guitars.
Jacob Snavely: bass.
Christopher Cantillo: Drums and percussion
What music or artists inspired you?
Between the three of us it´s, a whole lot of different music that has inspired us as musicians. I can tell you a little bit about what inspired or meant something to me as a songwriter and that stretches everywhere from Nirvana to Gillian Welch.
I started out in some kind of chronological order but it deteriorates after a while and get´s all mixed up..
Nirvana, Red House Painters, Leonard Cohen, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Nick Drake, dEUS, Bonnie Prince Billy/ /Palace Music, Joni Mitchell, Radar Bros, Modest Mouse, Townes Van Zandt, Guided By Voices, The Magnetic Fields, Galaxie 500, Bill Callahan//Smog, Woods, Gillian Welch, So on… and so forth… 🙂
And I just bought a “White Magic” cassette that i really like!
How did the band get started?
We have all played music for a while in Stockholm in a bunch of different bands and constellations, but there´s really no mystery to it. I guess I met up with Jacob at some point and we decided to try playing some of my songs together, he brought in Christopher knowing him as a fantastic drummer. And we just kind of clicked in the most cliché sense of the word.
How would you best describe your live show:
Ever changing. We have very difficult scheduals. Expect body doubles.
What shows do you have coming up?
We are doing a short east coast tour in the US in September, then we go back there for some more touring in October. In between we have a couple of dates here and there in Europe. Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London as it seems right now. We´ll of course be updating our social media as more shows get nailed down, so find us there!
Keep an eye on Facebook for more dates.
Tell us about your latest release:
It´s our debut full length so it´s pretty special. Took us a while to get done between all of us having kids along the way. We recorded most of it in our cabin/studio in Stockholm. It´s called From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like The Ocean, which is of course a way too long title that I stole from somewhere in a book called “The Boat” by Australian author Nam Le. It popped out at me when i read it a couple years ago, i wrote it down and kept it for a rainy day. This Record was that rainy day i guess. I have no recollection at all about what it meant in the context of his book. it´s become my own over the years. To me It´s a very poetic way of saying -who cares. Which is sometimes very liberating. And to me releasing this record is a very liberating thing.
Where can I get your music?
order our album on vinyl and CD
iTunes
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