{"id":1117,"date":"2013-04-27T06:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=1117"},"modified":"2022-03-13T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T17:09:00","slug":"sjoholm-makes-everyone-feel-at-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/reviews-2011\/sjoholm-makes-everyone-feel-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Sj\u00f6holm makes everyone feel at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Svenska Dagbladet 110205<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: KERSTIN LUNDELL<\/p>\n

POP  <\/strong>
\nHelen Sj\u00f6holm  <\/strong>
\nRival  <\/strong><\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm doesn\u00b4t wait long before she turns up the comfort factor to max. It`s an evening everyone will enjoy. An evening where the charmed audience is humming their approval to everything Helen Sj\u00f6holm does. It sways and bends in the velvet chairs. Sj\u00f6holm is sticking out her tongue, teasing and joking with a cheeky twinkle in her eyes.<\/p>\n

Last fall Helen Sj\u00f6holm released her CD Euforia, her first studio album in eight years, where she sang translated interpretations of Billy Joel. Tomas Andersson Wij, who has made the Swedish translations, is also at Rival this evening – settled in the audience – when Sj\u00f6holm and her band embarks on a journey with rapid changes. They mix and give. Billy Joel songs, Andersson Wij’s Ett slag f\u00f6r dig, Elvis Costello’s I Almost had a Weakness and an amazing 80s-pop medley that tells us about Sj\u00f6holm’s adolescence in Sundsvall.<\/p>\n

After each song, she is careful to invite the band to applause. For despite the fact that Helen Sj\u00f6holm and her voice is the clear leader, this is team work. It\u00b4s a band of five and with a string quartet that performs together with Helen. Jojje Wadenius flanking her left side with his guitar. The pianist Martin \u00d6stergren plays with his left hand on the grand piano and the right hand on a keyboard. Nothing out of the ordinary. It’s a team effort. Together they each bring their own piece of the puzzel.<\/p>\n

It’s a cozy friday, but the best part comes when Helen Sj\u00f6holm slows down, leaving her usual path behind. When she challenges the image of herself as the nice reformer who is loved by the Swedish people. When she turns the light down and takes on Andreas Kleerup’s recently written music for Harry Martinson’s space epic Aniara, which she played during the fall at Stockholm City Theater. Or when she assumes Kylie Minogue’s role in Nick Cave’s murder ballad Where The Wild Roses Grow (Wadenius sings Caves role). There, under the surface, Helen Sj\u00f6holm has a whole different register.<\/p>\n

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