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  • Pär Hagström & Cirkus Transmopol first started as an idea of making a conceptual live music performance brought close to the audience. A live show that touches, that is beautiful and bad, and that has a clear focus on the visual and artistic parts of live performing. The idea came to Pär Hagström at a time when he was about to finish theatre studies in Sweden.
    - I decided to build up a brand new orchestra from the very start, and I wanted to do it with people I did not know before and about whom I did not have made up any thoughts about in advance, Pär says.

    In January 2006 Pär Hagström & Cirkus Transmopol performed live for the very first time. A whole lot of shows followed, members left and was replaced. In December 2006 the debut mini-album "we are music" was released and the band performed live in Swedish radio.
    Reviewers mention influences as different as Springsteen, Nick Cave, Arcade Fire and Nina Simone. Established music site "it's a trap" writes: "it's an empowering, air-punshing, hip-swaying highway hit that teeters only wee bit precariously on the line of 80's anthem rock". The Swedish magazine "Trots Allt" writes: "Rock, blues, gospel, cabaret, gipsy music...my thoughts several times leads towards when Tom Waits asks for a dance. Pär Hagström is a dynamic and charismatic front figure and writes soul filled songs that I long to get to experience live!"

    In January 2007 Pär Hagström & Cirkus Transmopol first performed live with the now existing line up....


  • If you like Nick Cave,Neil Young or Antony and the Johnson you will love this debut album " We Are Music " from Pär Hagström & Cirkus Transmopol.