Clockwise is a Swedish music project, formed by Benny Söderberg in 1995
The singer and songwriter Benny Söderberg
Fortune (music group from Sweden)
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asked the musicians
John Levén
John Gunnar Levén (born 25 October 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish bassist in the Swedish rock band Europe. Levén and vocalist Joey Tempest are the only band members who have performed on all of Europe's studio albums.
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Bass,
Ian Haugland
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Drums from
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and guitarplayer Jan Granvik (Glory) to play on his coming album. Benny did meet John and Ian when they were playing with Glenn Hughes and Benny's previous band Fortune opened for
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on his Japan tour in 1994, and guitar player Jan Granwick (Glory) have Benny known for years so he was also asked to participate.
Benny felt that he wanted to make an album with all the elements that he thought a good album should have, nice melody and good musician ship. Not just jump onto the next music scene that appears 'cause it has changed. Together with Christer Wedin at Empire Records they set plans for this project.
The debut album ''Nostalgia'' is an album filled with strong melodies, tasteful arrangements, good musician ship and great sound, the later created by Ronny Lahti (
Europe
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, Talisman, Saigon Kick), is incredible. 1999.
After the successful release of Clockwise debut album "Nostalgia", which received rave reviews all over the world, the second album called "Naïve", was released. And again, Benny Söderberg asked his musician friends, who participated on the first album, to record this follow up album. Therefore, you will again find,
John Levén
John Gunnar Levén (born 25 October 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish bassist in the Swedish rock band Europe. Levén and vocalist Joey Tempest are the only band members who have performed on all of Europe's studio albums.
Career
When ...
bass and
Ian Haugland
Jan-Håkan "Ian" Haugland (born 13 August 1964) is the drummer in the Swedish rock band Europe. When he was eight months old, he and his family moved to the Stockholm suburb of Märsta, Sweden. He joined Europe in the summer of 1984, replacing ...
drums from
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...
, as the solid rhythm section. Contractual reason made it impossible for guitar player Jan Granwick to participate on this second record. Therefore, the guitar axe man Fredrik Åkesson (
Talisman
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,
Arch Enemy
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, Southpaw now with
Opeth) was asked to play with Clockwise on this record and so he did.
Benny has also recorded a demo for Clockwise 3rd album, (maybe) to be named "nothing is the greatest thing". On this demo Benny plays all instruments, except bass, which is played by John Levén, and for this demo Jan Granwick plays all guitars. The songs featured on this demo are "Our Roads Never Cross", "If You Change Your Mind" and "Demon In The Dim". You can also expect the ending for the song "the tales of King Solitude" that started with part 1:3 on the first album, continued with "the tales of King Solitude 2:3" on the second album, and now to be ended with "the tales of King Solitude 3:3" on the 3rd album.
Records
* Clockwise - ''Nostalgia'' (1996)
* Clockwise - ''Naïve'' (1998)
Naïve. ''Music Might''
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References
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Swedish heavy metal musical groups