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Solo Sissokho has left the planet

2019-05-08 We are struck with the loss of one more great musician friend. After a couple of years of...

Live in Frankfurt 82 on vinyl!

2018-06-25 The Italian label Black Sweat Records have licensed our Bitter Funeral Beer Band album Live in Frankfurt 82...

“Praise Drumming” w Bitter Funeral Beer Band suddenly on CD!

2017-10-02 A knock on my door and suddenly two boxes arrived from Dragon Records with the CD release of...

Moki Cherry and her art in Don’s music

2017-05-31 At Baltimore Kissa Society you find a site with a great article about Moki Cherry and her art, especially...

Photos from the Bucky Dome in 1971 and 2012

2017-03-05 I just upped some photos from the Bucky Dome that was kindly provided by Moderna Muséet on my...

Sebastian Åberg is 40!

2017-02-11 Drummer/tablawala Sebastian Åberg, student of Maruti Kurdekar is celebrating his 40th birthday today. Check out his album The...

“Ethereal beauty Thomas Tidholm, Jonas Knutsson: Orsa By Night”

2015-12-07 Raul da Gama gives us one more incredibly well written review of our album Orsa at Night with...

Spjärnsvallet goes vinyl – release concerts

2015-05-09 The Gothenburg label Omlott has licensed Again and Again and is releasing a vinyl version with their own cover art on May...

Our November e-mail newsletters

2014-11-02 Info about our 2014 releases and release concerts: Here is the english e-mail: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/2014-november-eng/ och den svenska e-posten: http://www.countryandeastern.se/category/newsletter/2014-november-swe/ If you...

Spjärnsvallet releases AGAIN AND AGAIN! in concert on December 8

2014-11-01 Country & Eastern is very happy to announce the release of the album AGAIN AND AGAIN with SPJÄRNSVALLET at a...

C&E on Soundcloud

2014-08-13 We have updated our Soundcloud site with free samples from all later releases. Try it when in need...

Ellika Frisell, new member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music

2014-05-15 Congratulations Ellika Frisell, new member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Hear her NOW

Another C&E video: Sebastian Åberg’s Sangeet Project in a live concert

2014-04-12 About Sebastian  About the album

The Country & Eastern YouTube channel

2014-03-29 We are currently uploading various C&E related videos on our YouTube channel. So far there are videos of Bitter...

Two videos with Ellika Solo Rafael

2014-02-28 Folk Music Group of the Year – Ellika Solo Rafael gives you Dolo/Porque Se Fue and Sanka/Virrvals from...

Ellika Solo Rafael wins “Folk Music Group of the Year”!

2014-02-21 In Umeå tonight they have a fair chance of being voted Folk Music of the Year". Let's hope...

Much praise for NOW

2013-11-07 "The Ellika, Solo, Rafael album has been awarded Songlines' 'Top of the World' in our Jan/Feb issue (on sale 6th Dec)"...

Our new albums are in the mail today!

2013-08-07 Here is a link to the newsletter:

Alla Drömmars Sång (Song of Dreams) – Willemark Öberg Knutsson

2013-02-16 Says Ale Möller: "On this cd you hear some of the musicians I have played with most of...

The Bucky Dome Finale on september 9

2012-09-07 In spite of the lousy weather, we've had a summer full of interesting music and other stuff at...

Bucky Dome avslutar med konsert söndag 9 september kl 13

2012-09-06 Trots det hopplösa vädret har vi haft en sommar fylld av fin musik, konst och uppträden sedan vi...

Okay Temiz Oriental Wind at the Dome

2012-07-27 Okay Temiz Oriental Wind plays today at the Dome July 28, 7 pm. In the concert we can...

Adam Rudolph GO: Organic Orchestra workshop at the Dome july 10-14

2012-07-03 GO: ORGANIC ORCHESTRA DOME PROJECT: A teaching residency for music students and/or professionals that includes the involvement of...

Country & Eastern News – may 2012

2012-05-10 Hectic days for Country & Eastern: A few days after the end of the Bible we are heavily...

We close The Bible again on may 10!

2012-05-10 After four months of rehearsals we premiered "The Bible" (yes, the whole one) at Göteborgs Stadsteater on february...

New Country & Eastern releases may 22: The Vedbod Tapes and More Vedbod Tapes

2012-05-04 In a “vedbod” (woodshed in swedish) in the swedish countryside three young instrumentalists from the progressive music movement...

Thomas Mera Gartz suddenly snatched away on april 29, 2012

2012-05-01 Thomas Mera Gartz was one of the main actors in the progressive music movement in Sweden during the...

Double release from Country & Eastern on monday sep 26! Party on the 27th!

2011-09-23  Next in our series of north indian art music releases is yet another Dhrupad masterpiece, the morning ragini...

Haci Tekbilek is artist of the year!

2011-06-17 Out of three nominees for Artist of the Year, we had two from the C&E label with releases...

Haci Tekbilek OR Jonas Knutsson for Artist of the Year?

2011-04-01 As you might know their releases on Country & Eastern were nominated for the Grammy (Jonas for Blåslåtar) and...

Grammy nomination for “Blåslåtar”

2011-03-12 Swedish saxophone maestro Jonas Knutsson has along all his other musical projects in jazz and world music studied...

Academy Award for Nityanand Haldipur

2010-12-23 The General Council of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, New Delhi at its...

Sadanand Naimpalli in Stockholm

2010-11-12 In december 10 2010, 43 years after recording our CE01 and CEX02 albums, Pandit Sadanand Naimpalli has become...