Jens Lekman is one of Sweden's best-known musicians and a darling of the indie pop world, writes Stephen Heyman in
The New York Times. He has three full-length albums to his name, including 2007's
Night Falls Over Kortedala, which made it onto several critics' lists of the last decade's best records.
Heyman runs a Q&A in the
Times's International Arts section to explore Lekman's recent push into more intimate and immediate ways of music-making and explains how he was in Cincinnati this fall working on a project called "Ghostwriting" in which he interviewed people about their lives and turned their stories into songs he later released for free on his
website.
Lekman performed a few weeks ago at the Woodward Theater in a collaboration with
MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra.
Read the full
New York Times Q&A
here.
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