We are still in the recording process after a break.


Next performance October 16 at La Couronne in Malmo. Time: 8:30PM; Cost: 40SEK. Welcome!
Selfmademan is set to start the recording process of the first full length album in November. This page will keep you updated.
Selfmademan welcomes you to The Grand Party Saturday August 28 at Ungdomens Hus in Malmo. Get your tickets here. Time: TBA; Cost: 100SEK.
June 5. Concert at Caveau Colibri. Two sets. Mood great.
The numbers; Blues, Turn Up, Sunflower Barrette, Starry Nights, Free To Gamble, Romantica, Willie´s Bike, Faithful - Solange, Four Blocks To Main Street, Vain Talk, Bourée, Giant Spotlight, White Fang, That I Can´t Have You, Hideout, Urban Fantasy
Now we look forward to the party in August. Until then...
Altsaxophonist Jalle Hoffman will sit in with the band Saturday 5 June at Caveau Colibri.

Mikael Ekholm performs music of Selfmademan, Jethro Tull, Steely Dan and more as a leader at the International Flutefestival in Lund. June 18, 7:00PM. Check for updates.
Former Selfmademan-saxophonist Peter Zimny will play his "examenskonsert" at KB, Malmo Sunday 30 May. Time: 12:00PM.
May 20. A couple of new links have been added.
Tickets for June 5 at La Couronne in Malmo are now available. To order click here. Time: 8:00PM; Cost: 60SEK. Welcome!
La Couronne - Bistro. Players: Ola Dahlqvist, Patrick Ohlson. Sara Dahl, Helga Boström, Christoffer Dahl, Mikael Ekholm, Jonas André, Carsten Andersson, Ola Rönndahl and Andreas Huss.
Turn Up, Starry Nights, Vain Talk, Sunflower Barrette, Free To Gamble (first performance), That I Can´t Have You, Willie´s Bike, Faithful (first performance), Blues Intro, Solange (first performance), The White Fang, Hideout, Romantica, Giant Spotlight, Four Blocks To Main Street, Medley Bourée -I Believe When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever -Black Cow -Josie -Village Of The Sun -Hey Jude -In The End

March 19. Today there is an article about Selfmademan in Metro. If you have missed it you can read either the newspaperscan or the netversion of the article here.
We are among the artists in the Caveau Colibri spring 2004 program.
"Selfmademan, rockjazzfunk-concert in Caveau Colibri March 20th 9:00 open from 8:00."

Our new cool T-shirts has arrived. 100% cotton, black with "SELFMADEMAN" in orange-colored print on the chest and the email-address on the back. It comes in all sizes (one women´s T-shirt and one men´s T-shirt). Send us a mail and it´s yours for 14 euros (120 SEK)
Tickets for March 20 at La Couronne in Malmo are now available. To order click here. Time: 8:00PM; Cost: 60SEK. Welcome!
The website is updated. The new adress is www.selfmademan.se
November 5. It seems they´re faster at Vitaminic. Now there are seven songs available for listen and download. Just click "View all available tracks" and you´ll find them.
November 3. The new songs have been uploaded to Vitaminic. It will be possible to listen and download them at this page as well. It will just take a couple of days before the site has made them available.
November 2. The section about the band members is updated.
November 1. It is now possible to send us messages and feedback through our Guest Book.
October 31. The Selfmademan page at MP3.com is updated with downloadable versions from the latest session.
October 29. The website is redesigned. A few pages are still undergoing some modifications. Hopefully you like the new look. Sorry for any inconvenience.
October 19. Demo versions from the latest session in mp3-format is available in the soundbytes area.
Our next date is November 29 at Cillas in Malmo.
We are happy to present two new bandmembers. On keyboard Jonas André has joined the band after being a sub for Oskar for a couple of months. We have also augmented the band with new vocalist Helga Boström.
Patrick has become father of a little baby girl to be named Nelly. Congratulations!
Friday August 29. Selfmademan was invited to perform at the gala "Mr.Malmo 2003". Sounds interesting? Well... We found ourselves at a beauty contest for men(!) and performed in the intermission. Willie´s Bike, Turn Up and Giant Spotlight were our choices. On tenor saxophone Peter Aronsson and on trumpet Ola Rönndahl.
First time experience.
Friday Aug 16. On tenor saxophone Ramin, on keyboards Jonas André and on trumpet Ola Rönndahl. Here´s the setlist;
Blues Introduction
Four Blocks To Main Street
Willie´s Bike
Romantica
The White Fang
Starry Nights
Urban Fantasy
Turn Up
Hideout
Vain Talk
Giant Spotlight (extended version)

During Malmofestivalen (the annual Malmo Festival) we will play at Cillas Friday Aug 16 at 8.

July 25. New numbers were Romantica and an extended kind of free version of Giant Spotlight. Mikael was featured in a new introduction to Four Blocks.
In the programme from the Jazz Festival you could read as follows;
(text in swedish, translation necessary) SELFMADEMAN

Ett malmöbaserat band som spelar på festivalen för andra gången. Berättelser ur vår samtid skildras i form av nyskrivna originallåtar. Här erbjuds musik kryddad med tydliga avtryck ur amerikansk tradition med tonvikt på jazz och blues. Slickt arrangerad vokalmusik möter improvisation i en blanding av akustiskt och elektriskt sound. 50-talet möter 2003. Mycket atmosfär, dynamik och energi utlovas.
Ola Dahlqvist (sång), Christoffer Dahl (tr), Patrick Ohlson (gtr), Carsten Andersson (bas), Sara Dahl (sång), Mikael Ekholm (flöjt), Jonas André (key), Tomas Trulsson (sax)

The next Club Selfmade party is planned to take place in Malmo September 27. Tickets will be available here in August.
Friday July 25 we perform at the Jazz festival in Smyge. New musicians are Tomas Trulsson on tenor saxophone and Jonas André on keyboards. The concert begins at 21. Find out how to get there.
The new songs are under way. You will soon find samples at this very site in the soundbytes area.
Setlist from May 31.
Blues Intro
Four Blocks To Main Street
Vain Talk
Willie´s Bike
Sunflower Barrette
The White Fang
Starry Nights
That I Can´t Have You
Turn Up
Urban Fantasy
Hideout

This page is finally updated.
Next stop!
Saturday May 31 we will play at Cillas in Malmo.
New musicians sitting in with the band are Istvan Gabor on tenor saxophone and Bjorn Edqvist on trumpet.
Unfortunately this will probably be the last gig with Oskar. He is taking a break from the band to play with Prominent and later this summer he is going on tour in Japan.
We will perform songs from the latest recording. On stage at 22.
We have mastered the recording at Studio Loftet, Limhamn. Great many thanks to Janne Browall.
After a couple of delays we´re finally finished with the new demo. The numbers we have recorded are; Hideout, Four Blocks To Main Street, Starry Nights and Turn Up.
Here are a couple of pictures from the session. Mikael captured most of the images. For larger view leftclick on the pics.

Ola.

Mikael.

Patrick and Sara.









Patrick.

Björn.

Mattias.

Peter.










Carsten and Christer Larsson.
We are now recording at Wonderland Studios in Malmo. Sound engineer is Christer Larsson. The band is augmented with Mattias Eskilsson on trombone and keyboard (who was also with us in 2001), Peter Zimny on tenor saxophone, Björn Edqvist on trumpet and P-O Nilsson on organ. Selfmademan pianist Oskar Ling, who more or less has quit the band due to a busy schedule, helped us out on one number. We expect to be finished with production in early May.
It´s a boy! Congratulations Jenny on the birth of your first child, to be named Ludvig.
We have now scheduled a recording session in April. We will present the material on this website first.



Club Selfmade.
A place where people can go to relax, unwind, and have a good time.
This was a night to remember. And the party was sold out.

Two new players were added for the show. On Tenorsaxophone Peter Zimny and on Trumpet Ola Rönndahl.
Thanks to caterer Magnus Bursell. To Martin Hägg and his friend for not being bouncers, but floor men. Thanks to engineer Fredrik Wiking. Thanks to Saras sister and her friend for taking care of the bar. A special thanks to Stellan Viking.
And thanks to all you fans for coming.

We played these songs during our one and a half hour gig;

Magnus Bursell
-our caterer.
Club Selfmade Blues
Willie´s Bike
Vain talk
Sunflower Barrette
V.I.P.
Turn Up
The White Fang
That I Can´t Have You
Starry Nights
Presentation
Urban Fantasy
Hideout
Encore;
Don´t stop me now (by Queen)
Willie´s Bike reprise


PARTY in MALMO December 21 We are proud to inform you about the party coming up. December 21 Selfmademan plays at Druiden. The tickets are 100SEK (about 10 EUR) and available from this site. Just send us an email and we will contact you. We open the gates at 9. Welcome!
Det är ett nöje att kunna presentera årets fest. Den 21 December spelar Selfmademan på Druiden. Trevligt folk, god musik, bar, lite mat och mingel. En chans att festa loss innan jullugnet sätter in. Biljetterna kostar 100 kronor och går att beställa här på hemsidan. Skicka bara ett email och uppge hur många du vill ha. Festen börjar klockan 21 och håller på hela natten. Välkommen!



New vocalist is Jenny Berkesköld. She started rehearsing with the band in September.
Hello again Easy-listeners!
The Peoplesound story continues. One of our kind fans asked us why the visitor on Peoplesound have to search for "artists like...". It´s hard work already finding Selfmademan on this page. And if the possibility to simply type the bandname in a box is excluded what do you do? Look for something similar? So I searched for some famous names in the genre: Julio Iglesias, Roy Orbison, even Kenny G...but no hits. He also told me something was wrong with the titles of the songs on this page. So if you click to listen to "Willie´s Bike" you will hear "That I Can´t Have You"! "Urban Fantasy" seems to have got the right title, though. Pah...
Selfmademan on the charts!
I was surfing the internet the other day and when I logged on to Peoplesound I noticed that our band was on the charts. Urban Fantasy was at #9 and Willie´s Bike at #17. Yeah!

But how did that happen? I remember sending our demo to the staff at the recommended Uk-site Peoplesound last year. I received a confirmation, but was later told in a mail that due to licensing laws, the tracks couldn´t be downloaded or played.
However, they seemingly have listened and now even put our songs up in a suitable genre to promote them and our band along with other similar artists. That´s the good news.

But if you take a closer look at this picture you´ll notice they by some reason with great effort have placed us in genres like "Easy Listening" and even "Vocal Easy Listening".

Woah..!

I guess that´s what occasionally happens when you try to do something new. It´s not only a matter of reaching out with your intentions. It´s also about fitting in, obviously.
It leaves me with ancient words of wisdom. No genres are right genres...


We got a few lines in the local papers though.(text in Swedish)

Jazz-festival i Smyge jubilerar
...lockar med musik från fyra scener, varierad i stil från New Orleans till bebop, blues och modernare tongångar.
Malmöbandet Selfmademan breddar programmet ännu mer med sin vita funksoul.

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Jazz i Smyge 2002
Selfmademan.
Tio musiker som spelar eget nyskrivet material och bildades av kärntruppen Carsten bas, Ola sång, Patrick gitarr, Oskar keyboard och Christoffer på trummor under hösten 2000. Influenser alltifrån 60-talsjazz med Wayne Shorter och Miles Davis i spetsen via 70-talets jazz-influerade artister. "Bandet har för avsikt att korsbefrukta musikaliskt stoff. Ingredienserna hämtas från olika hörn, akustiskt trumsound sammanvävs med Carltonriff, Quincy Jones-blås möter Steely Dan-harmisar, jazz, pop och soul i samma påse. I texterna skildras både människan och kosmos".
FREDAG 18.30-20.00

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020724. Today Christoffer and Ola was at a press-meeting in Smyge representing Selfmademan. An interesting experience.







Excerpt from one of the interviews with Ola;

-What kind of music do you play?
-Well, it´s basically rock, funk...and soul...
We´ve heard people refer to it as kind of like Steely Dan...
-Yeah, he´s good! (nodding)

(General pause)

Fortunately not printed in the press.


020721 New players on trumpet and tenor saxophone.
We will have a couple of new musicians on our next gig this Friday. Mathias Gunnarsson and Mattias Carlson will play along Mikael Ekholm in the "Horn-section". And Anders Juhlin will sit in for Oscar behind the piano.
Friday July 26th we will play at Smyge Jazz Festival.
We start at 18.45. No admission.

How to get there? Click here


020611 New bandmembers!
We are proud to present to you two new bandmembers. At our last bandmeeting we inducted vocalist Sara Dahl and flutist Mikael Ekholm to become full bandmembers. They were both in the band at the La Couronne gig. Mikael was also playing on the demo. Furthermore we will add new players on trumpet and tenor saxophone. More on this subject later.
Live!
This was to be our public live debut. The first occasion to try our original material on real people. So we went for a place we knew we could fill. Set up tables and chairs for the size of audience expected. And put the music in the front seat. In the basement of a french restaurant downtown. Perfect for a relaxed mood. All was set for a thrilling evening...

Read full article here


We got some promotion in the papers. (text in Swedish)

Selfmademan spelar eget
Selfmademan är ett nybildat femmannaband som lirar R&B, soul och funk med dragning åt The Doobie Brothers och Steely Dan. Fast låtarna är egna, de flesta skrivna av Carsten Andersson. Nyfikna? Kolla in bandet på La Couronne i Malmö på lördag kväll.

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Lördag 13 april
Pop, rock, blues m m

Selfmademan, Tentett, Showtime,
La Couronne, S Förstadsg 36, Malmö, kl 20-21.

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Next stop at La Couronne April 13th.
As you probably already know by reaching this far, we are doing a show this weekend at La Couronne. The core has been augmented with nothing less than five musicians.

Flute :Mikael Ekholm
Tenor Saxophone :Mårten Nilsson
Trumpet :Tommy Jung
The Vocal-section ;
Sandra Hansson
Sara Dahl


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