Artist: Solblomma
Item: New Album 2023
Style: Alternative
Title: Tiptoe into Limbo
Release Date: 2023-11-03
Images Press: Download
Contact: info@blomkraft.com
Artist Song Picks: 2, 4, 7, 9
Solblomma
Tiptoe into Limbo
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I'm lost in the woods and pale as a clown. Virgil, take my hand! The sun doesn't belong here. We can tune the violin. Something good is waiting on the highest hill.
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The ferry is coming. I buy a bikini; it is nice. Acheron is empty, and Charon is whiny. In the middle of the trip, hope falls overboard. The life jacket is on. I am the only life in death.
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Towards Circle One, the journey goes. So green it is, the meadow over there! I don't meet a small cow or a friend. Only a piece of art can save me. "Hello, Cicero!" We tiptoe into Limbo.
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Minos wags his tail, and Virgil stands very close to me at the moment. No one can catch me! The big-time adventure has begun.
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The fever is so high in here. I want to stay under Virgil’s blouse – always. The day is beautiful but gone. Cerberus rises above the water. I am a good swimmer.
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We could jump between the trees. We could dance below the clouds. A few bluebirds are passing by. I can build my dream to fit the main road. There are machines designed for that.
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Phlegyas brings us across the river. Don't let me fall into Styx. The air is noisy but quiet. Loneliness is mine as I stand eternal as an exception. When the ship stops, we are in Dis.
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The hotel is expensive. 81 degrees in the car when the window is closed. Clean your poetry and eat an ice cream. We are lost in Charles' Wain, Virgil and I. Hell's bazaar is not for us all.
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Try me, boil me, fry me in some blood. We are dancers! String your bow, Minotaur. The trees are on fire when the ring doves have fled. Love me, leave me – just take me home.
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Malebolge. SOS in Circle Eight. I can see the war from the bridges. My army has fallen, and life has left. Virgil is an old man now. Today it is free to die.
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Oh, my God, Lucifer's stomach hurts. Bring a nurse. I'm not tired at all. The bluebells are moving from the track, you know. When dawn climbs the mountain, we're done. It is a starry night.
Label: Blomkraft Records
Distribution: The Orchard
Recorded, Mixed & Produced by: Håkan Folkesson, Paramaterial Studio, Rågsved Sweden
Co-produced by: Solblomma
Additional Percussion Track 2, 5 & 9: Hazy Hansson
Lyrics: Solblomma
Music: Solblomma & Håkan Folkesson
Mastering: Björn Engelmann, Cutting Room Stockholm Sweden
Solblomma Portrait by: Jonas Dahlberg
Album (2023-11-03): Tiptoe into Limbo
Single 01 (2023-04-28): Pale Like a Clown (Hall I)
Single 02 (2023-05-26): Ringing Bell (Hall II)
Single 03 (2023-06-16): Tiptoe into Limbo (Circle I)
Single 04 (2023-07-07): Killer Bee (Circle II)
Single 05 (2023-07-28): Good Swimmer (Circle III)
Single 06 (2023-08-18): Drowning in Greed (Circle IV)
Single 07 (2023-09-08): Fall into Styx (Circle V)
Single 08 (2023-09-29): Charles's Wain (Circle VI)
Single 09 (2023-10-20): Fireflowers (Circle VII)
Single 10 (2023-11-17): Alarm Call (Circle VIII)
Single 11 (2023-12-01): Dance With Me (Circle IX)
Solblomma travels through Dante's Inferno
The story takes place in Hell, in Dante Alighieri’s allegorical poem La Divina Commedia. In his comedy, set around Easter in the year 1300, Dante undertakes a journey through the three kingdoms that are thought to await man after death: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise). But in Solblomma’s liberal interpretation of the work, the author is excluded! Instead, she makes the perilous journey herself, with the Roman poet Virgil in tow, through two halls and the nine circles of Hell.
The Swedish singer’s new album, with the working title ‘Tiptoe into Limbo’, offers an immersive experience through its 11 electronic compositions that blend a mystical narrative inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy with the mundane reality of daily life in the 21st century. The album’s theme is reminiscent of the character Rael’s underworld adventure in Genesis’ ‘The Lamb lies down on Broadway’.
Virgil holds the mortal Solblomma in his hand as they encounter the underworld’s immortal ferryman Charon, cross the River Acheron, and voyage down through the funnel of Hell. They tiptoe into Limbo, meet Kerberos, the multi-headed Hound of Hades, fight with lions, hide in the Charles’s Wain (Big Dipper) and then...check into a hotel!
Solblomma observes:
“Vergilius is waiting for me in the last corner of the forest. The night is dark, the sins weigh heavily and the predators are hungry. The sun does not climb up behind the mountain even though the dawn has come. The platform is deserted but the train enters, on Track 7. We abandon hope outside and enter through the gates of hell – Virgil and I”
Come join Virgil and Solblomma on their heroic journey!
