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  • Loud Feathers

    ROOTSY048

    Artist: Pontus Snibb 3

    Label: Rootsy

    Pontus Snibb has through the years proved that he's one of Sweden's best singers and guitar players – with a long-lasting, productive career as a recording and live artist with bands such as SNiBB and Bonafide, who are currently getting a lot of attention in Europe. This coming February, another chapter to the story begins with the release of the debut album Loud Feathers from the newly formed power trio Pontus Snibb 3.

    The album was recorded in less than a week, mostly live, in the respected Gig Studio in Stockholm, Sweden together with Conny Wall (who've worked with Ane Brun, Electric Boys, Peter Bjorn & John, Imperial State Electric to name a few). Many bands talk about capturing that raw, spontaneous energy but instead lock themselves in the studio for six months, spending their time moving the kick drum a few milliseconds this or that way.

    “I thoroughly loved all three days of recording this album”, main man Pontus says. “Just three guys having a good time, playing live in the studio with almost no overdubs, the same way all my favorite albums were made. Just playing groovy music together. We could have called it a live album.”

    Pontus Snibb 3 is, on one hand, a brand new band, on the other a continuation of Pontus' previous solo career, and this album is thereby a follow-up of sorts to Admiral Street Recordings 1 and 2 – the latter having also been released by Rootsy back in 2009. Besides Pontus on guitar and vocals, the band features Backdraft's rhythm secti...