{"id":4913,"date":"2013-10-29T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T09:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/?page_id=4913"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:25:25","slug":"revival-in-kalmarsalen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helensjoholm.nu\/_eng\/press-clips\/reviews-2013\/revival-in-kalmarsalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Revival in Kalmarsalen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barometern 131028<\/strong>
\nBy: Anna T\u00f6rnkvist
\n
\n\u201cYou aaare my maaan…! With great enthusiasm and aplomb the man next to me, who visits the concert with his wife, sings along to the chorus.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

The audience in the packed Kalmarsalen had to start the concert evening with groping around in the dark in the foyer, for just over half an hour. The light comes back in the end after a power failure and Helen Sj\u00f6holm greets her audience, 30 minutes after the appointed time, with open arms.
\n– Thank you for waiting.<\/p>\n

I like Helen Sj\u00f6holm and her theatrical style. She makes music drama of most songs and it becomes especially effective in her presentation of Staffan Hellstrand\u2019s \u201dFanfare\u201d, which reads:
\n\u201dThis is a song for those who see happiness in what they have near. Those who bring children into the world and make it work\u201d. Her voice is overwhelmingly powerful and the lyrics take up space. The repertoire is also a spectacle.<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm did the role of Kristina fr\u00e5n Duvem\u00e5la breathtaking 18 years ago. From the big screen we remember her as Gabriella in \u201dS\u00e5 som i himmelen\u201d. In these works she gave voice to some of the Swedes\u2019 most beloved songs, \u201dDu m\u00e5ste finnas\u201d and \u201dGabriella\u2019s s\u00e5ng\u201d, included in this show in Kalmarsalen.<\/p>\n

She also offers a taste of newly written music by Fredrik Kempe, from next year\u2019s musical version of Jonas Gardell and Susanne Bier\u2019s movie \u201dLivet \u00e4r en schlager\u201d, where Helen Sj\u00f6holm plays pop song freak Mona. \u201dSom skapta f\u00f6r varann\u201d, which offers space for Helen Sj\u00f6holm\u2019s registry, has all the potential to become a new hit on the Swedish charts.<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm goes from her greatest classics to dark and depressed by Depeche Mode. She also takes us on a journey into the Swedish song archive, where she and George \u201dJojje\u201d Wadenius found, among others, \u201dV\u00e5rvindar friska\u201d. She also sings from the album with Billy Joel tunes, which got Swedish lyrics by Tomas Andersson Wij.<\/p>\n

The concert offers many opportunities to close your eyes and enjoy, such as in Georg \u201dJojje\u201d Wadenius\u2019 instrumental \u201dK\u00e4rleksmorgon\u201d, and the performance of Judee Sill\u2019s \u201dThe Kiss\u201d feels like pulling a warm blanket over yourself, you breathe easier.<\/p>\n

Helen Sj\u00f6holm moves nicely between comedy and seriousness in the small talk, as when she tells about her first appearance in the Housewives Association when she mimed to Lasse Berghagen\u2019s  \u201cBH-samlaren Knut\u201d, and then talks about her concerns for the changing rural areas. Her sensitive performance of Tomas Andersson Wij\u2019s \u201dEtt slag f\u00f6r dig\u201d, which is about rural areas in transition, is the best of this evening.<\/p>\n

After a standing ovation, Helen Sj\u00f6holm and her band come back on stage and she tells us about an organizer in Sk\u00e5ne who wondered:
\n– You will sing the song, won\u2019t you? They\u2019ll kill you otherwise.
\nHelen Sj\u00f6holm sits down as if in a starting block and breaks forth in \u201dDu \u00e4r min man\u201d\u201dwhich was five years on the Swedish charts. A leap runs into the entire audience in Kalmarsalen and the mood changes from laid-back and relaxed into a kind of revival meeting in the final number, which is a declaration of unconditional love to a man.<\/p>\n

Facts<\/strong>
\nArtist\/Group:<\/strong> Helen Sj\u00f6holm, med Martin \u00d6stergren, Georg \u201dJojje\u201d Wadenius, Ulric Johanson and Tomas Bergquist.
\nWhere:<\/strong> Kalmarsalen
\nRating:<\/strong> * * * *<\/p>\n

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