This autumn Riltons Vänner turns 10 years old. We’ll celebrate that with a special show that goes on Sweden tour!
More info will come… For those of you who can’t wait celebrating, join our Facebook group!
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Riltons Vänner (Friends of Rilton) is one of Sweden’s most successful a cappella groups, we have recorded 4 albums, made over 500 performances & collaborated with a lot of nice people, for example the Electric Banana Band. This webpage also covers what we’ve done so far, including some strange things we’ve done, it is possible to watch videos & pictures, you can also listen to different stuff we’ve recorded. Almost everywhere on the page there is a chance for you to comment, and that makes us so happy when you do! If you want to get in touch with us a little more not so public, that is possible, too.
We’ve just started a Twitter account, where we’ll occasionally post updates of our doings. Totally live.
The gallery section is recently updated & loaded with nice pictures.
…please let us know if there’s anything you miss on the webpage!
The Eurovision Song Contest is a huge thing in Sweden. This is a cover we just made on last year’s winner, Charlotte Perelli with the song “Hero”.
We’ve been invited to participate in a Tokyo based a cappella festival by the end of August 2009. Among other invited groups are Take 6 & Rajaton.
Nice!
The international A Cappella organization CASA has its own annual award for A Cappella albums, called CARA. In 2005 our album “Här är passion” won the Best Folk/World Album category. This year, our latest album ”De vill att vi bugar och niger“ has been nominated in four categories:
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Since 2005 we’re part of the Swedish cult childrens rock/pop band Electric Banana Band, highly acclaimed by generations of Swedes. Riltons Vänner vanishes into “chock-pink” dresses and becomes The Flamingos, a given success as you can see: Watch a video and more pictures…
De vill att vi bugar och niger have now been reviewed by RARB (The Recorded A Cappella Review Board) and received wonderful comments. Read them here!
“…De vill att vi bugar och niger is an excellent album, full of fantastic singing and top-notch song writing. Even without translations of the lyrics, the songs are spellbinding. If only they had some US tour dates coming up…”
5/5 Tom Czerwinski, RARB
“Riltons vänner remains one of my all-time favorite groups. It’s impossible not to follow them through the nearly mystical soundscapes of Nånting inom oss, Klor, or the title track, De vill att vi bugar och niger.”
5/5 Jonathan Minkoff, RARB
“Albums this thoughtful and artful are certainly a rarity. De vill att vi bugar och niger is a wonderful listen time and time again, and one deserving of your attention.”
4/5 Kimmie Raschka Sailor, RARB
Riltons Vänner’s 4th album was recorded in the summer of 2007 – spring 2008. With this album, Riltons Vänner is taking a giant leap towards new soundscapes, away from the predicted & expected. Some of the songs are written for the album, while others have been in the group’s conscience for a longer period.
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De vill att vi bugar och niger:
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All songs are originals, written by Peter Björklund, Peter Hägerås and Matilda Lindell. » Read more…
Swedish electro-trio Stay Ali have honored us with a funky, mad & wonderful remix of our song “Ensamhet”. Keep your eyes open on these three gentlemen, something big is going on…
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In october 2008, we were guest performers at a major child choir concert in Lund, Sweden. We met some fantastic kids, along with some great Swedish artists (Molly Sandén, Ola (from Swedish Idol) & Nic Schröder). It felt kind of like a jackpot.
We have started our own record company, Sockeye. (Fishy name, huh!)
Sockeye is also an event company that produces all kinds of stuff, even stuff that doesn’t have to do with Riltons Vänner.
De vill att vi bugar och niger is now available in iTunes Plus, that means even higher audio quality. Buy it now!
We would like to thank all of you who came and visited our concert at Nalen, Stockholm at May 19! We had a lot of fun, we hope you enjoyed it too… Here are some pictures for you: » Read more…
We appeared at a famous Swedish radio host, Annika Lantz, at her show on May 16th. Apart from chatting about everything (Annika’s famous for talking), we also sang “De vill att vi bugar och niger”.
We had a two week tour in the middle of Sweden (Sörmland) in March ‘08. 11 school-concerts and 8 public concerts total. Here are some pictures: » Read more…
We performed two songs from the new album at a major Swedish TV show in March 2008.
In the summer of ‘07 we visited an unique Swedish venue, a limestone quarry called Dalhalla. We did a concert together with three of Sweden’s brightest jazz stars; Rigmor Gustafsson, Magnus Lindgren & Sandviken Big Band.
Riltons Vänner’s second latest album consists of all-original songs, all written by Peter Björklund. The CD was awarded “Best folk/world album of the year” by the international A Cappella organization CASA.
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Together with two Swedish choirs we went on a mini tour to Washington DC & New York. The tour, called Vocally Swedish, was arranged by Kalle Thorson, in order to bring Swedish vocal music to the US. Among other things we did a show at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC, a show that we’ll remember for the rest of our lives…
A commissioned work for the Swedish labour union, which contains old peace- & laboursongs in a new style.
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Riltons Vänners very first CD. A charming mix of funny & serious, originals & covers, and Swedish & English.
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