Visor från vinden
| Visor från vinden | ||||
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| Released | 11 April 2007 | |||
| Genre | Folk music | |||
| Length | 53:54 | |||
| Language | Swedish | |||
| Label | Bonnier Amigo Music Group | |||
| Producer | Göran Petersson, Sofia Karlsson, Jan Borges | |||
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Visor från vinden (Songs from the loft) is the Swedish singer Sofia Karlsson's third studio album as a solo artist. The album was released on 11 April 2007 by Bonnier Amigo Music Group.
The album is a collection of songs written by poets and musicians from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the Swedish Dan Andersson, Marianne Flodin, Mikael Wiehe, Alf Hambe, Carl Michael Bellman, Peps Persson, and Evert Taube. The album contains two poems from Charles Baudelaire, and a version of Boris Vian's antiwar song "Le Déserteur", all three originally French. Two of the songs are translations of Norwegian folk songs.
Visor från vinden was recorded at six different times in different places in Sweden and Denmark. The producers were Göran Petersson, Sofia Karlsson and Jan Borges, and among the participating musicians were Esbjörn Hazelius, Roger Tallroth and Lena Willemark.
The album had a mixed to positive reception, with reviewers commenting on the quality of the performances of traditional songs, interpreted plainly but personally. Visor från vinden reached second place on the Swedish album chart, Karlsson's highest placement. In 2008, she received a Swedish Grammis, a Danish Music Award in the category "Best Foreign Album", and the Manifestgalan Prize in the folk music category.