SALVA(Sweden)

The long lasting friendship of Stefan and Per goes back to the early 80's when they were about seven or eight years old. Their meeting, however, had nothing to do with music. They were both on the same handball-team and has been friends ever since. Growing up they found that they shared a burning passion for music and formed their first band in their teens. The emphasis on the music was hard rock and heavy metal and the band played some live shows at school happenings and such.

In "gymnasiet" (the Swedish equivalent to high school) Per met keyboard player Johan through mutual friends. They gelled instantly and Per persuaded Johan to join the band as well. In their late teens they felt it was time to make some money off the music so they started playing cover-songs on the live circuit of south-western Sweden (pubs, clubs, parties etc.) with great success. To this day they are still performing in this manner (under the "Stдmband"-moniker) and have been doing so for the last 12 years.

The SALVA-project has been the brain-child of Per for many years but it hasn't had the chance to fully blossom until now. He finds it very fulfilling to finally be able to write and record the kind of music that is dearest to his heart. As always, it's very hard to put labels on music, especially when it's your own, but the closest would probably be to describe SALVA'S music as symphonic hard rock with occasional folk tendencies.

Second album from Swedish progact Salva. Salva's sound is very 70's and thought go to the early Kaipa albums. Rich symphonic prog with just the right amount of folk leanings. Nice, very nice!