Jens Lekman’s spending “Summer in 3/4 Time”
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I love the little notes and updates I get from Jen's Lekman's Smalltalk mailing list. Sometimes I'm invited to a backyard concert in Melbourne, (Ms. Parsons sends her regrets) and sometimes there's some new music. Today I received a note from my favorite Swedish singer/songwriter that revealed that he was so inspired after remixing Au Revoir Simone’s “Shadows” from 4/4 to 3/4 time that he began hunting for songs in that time signature:
"It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In ...