{"id":11292,"date":"2021-11-15T20:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=11292"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T19:29:48","slug":"review-helen-sjoholm-concert-hall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/reviews-2021\/review-helen-sjoholm-concert-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"New pop songs lift Helen Sj\u00f6holm"},"content":{"rendered":"

G\u00f6teborgs-Posten 2021-11-12<\/strong><\/p>\n

By: JAN ANDERSSON<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm has a new band and a whole bunch of new pop songs. How does it work? Well thank you, really excellent (\u2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google steady, safe or stable and you will be greeted by a picture of Helen Sj\u00f6holm. If the roof had collapsed or the fire brigade stormed in and evacuated the Concert Hall, the country’s safest singer would at most have raised an eyebrow and then continued to sing Du \u00e4r min man (You Are My Man)<\/em> without the slightest tremor in her voice – just as she did on Friday night and has done for almost 300 weeks at the Swedish charts.<\/p>\n

The singer from Fridhemsgatan 54 in Sundsvall also excels in her old musical classics Gabriella’s song<\/em> and Du m\u00e5ste finnas (You Have To Be There)<\/em> (from Kay Pollaks As It Is In Heaven<\/em> and Kristina from Duvem\u00e5la<\/em>) but Friday’s concert also marks a fresh start and a kind of patchwork for Helen Sj\u00f6holm herself, as well as for her many fans.<\/p>\n

After 25 years in the industry, the musical star decided last autumn to let go of the rim in earnest. Then her first solo album was released, with newly written songs, including by Annika Norlin, Anna Ternheim and Andreas Mattsson, and shortly afterwards she made a memorable guest appearance on TV4’s S\u00e5 mycket b\u00e4ttre (So Much Better)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This concert night in Gothenburg also slides the new songs from both the album and the program basically seamlessly into the old songs from Benny Andersson’s Orchestra.<\/p>\n

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Jakob Hellman’s Han har ett s\u00e4tt (He has a way)<\/em> that sounds like a clunky 1930s cabaret by Kurt Weill, and while Loreen’s Euphoria<\/em> and Markus Kruneg\u00e5rd’s Korallreven & Vintergatan<\/em> (whose mesmerizing lines “human warmth please come closer” are tattooed on Mona Sahlin’s body) are fine-tuned and correct cozy, Pianoman<\/em> slips from Helen Sj\u00f6holm’s album with Billy Joel covers (which in Tomas Andersson Wij’s Swedish translation has become Barpianisten<\/em>) emerges as the worst rock smoker and gives guitarist Ola Gustafsson a moment to shine.<\/p>\n

In addition, she throws in Mikael Wiehe’s and Ebba Forsberg’s beautiful Dylancover F\u00f6r att jag \u00e4lskar dig (Make you feel my love)<\/em> and succeeds with small, careful gestures to make it hers in the same way as Adele did almost 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

But it\u00b4s still the songs from the latest album En ny tid (A New Time)<\/em> that are at the center and really lift the evening. Andreas Mattsson nice Samma h\u00e4r (Same Here)<\/em> gives similar “Carole King-meets-Agnetha F\u00e4ltskog” vibes as on record. Even Mattsson’s I morse n\u00e4r du gick (This Morning When You Went)<\/em> is a ballad that really sucks in and gives Helen Sj\u00f6holm a chance to embroider with all the colors of her voice.<\/p>\n

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Jag \u00e4r elden (I’m the Fire)<\/em> gets even heavier live and gives drummer Andreas Dahlb\u00e4ck a chance to sound like The Nationals Bryan Devendorf and guitarist Ola Gustafsson an opportunity to pick out his inner The Edge.<\/p>\n

As the end draws to a close and Helen Sj\u00f6holm and the band are rewarded with a resounding and standing ovation after Gabriella’s song<\/em>, they return for one last extra number with Benny Andersson’s Orchestra’s V\u00e5r sista dans (Our Last Dance)<\/em>, performed at the edge of the stage under colored lanterns. It\u00b4s a perfect end to a successful evening.<\/p>\n

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(The full review is not reproduced for copyright reasons)<\/em><\/p>\n

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