Franciska – Tryghed [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop Stepping along the rim of

Stepping along the rim of the silver screen

Kristoffer Raasted

it is the original instrument

the poet Peter Riley gets the ball rolling in his identification of the various hauntings of Bailey’s playing at this time: ‘mandolins & balalaikas strumming in the distance

Yet still Richard Williams in The Guardian reckoned this ‘wise and lyrical’ album ‘one of his best recordings’

Franciska – Tryghed [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop Stepping along the rim of"Tryghed is the debut album from Franciska, the alias of the now Copenhagen based artist Jonas Torstensson. As one of the key figures in the young, vivid scene around the Forlaget Kornmod imprint, Jonas has released a good deal of music under different names during the last few years, often in very limited cassette editions with barely no distribution. In many ways, Franciska pretty much captures the very essence of the sound world their label now is