Jens Lekman Announces Partially Remade Versions of Oh You’re So Silent Jens and Night Falls Over Kortedala
Jens Lekman is reissuing his 2005 compilation Oh You’re So Silent Jens and 2007 album Night Falls Over Kortedala, but not in their original form. The redux new versions of the albums both feature the same core tracklists and source material, but with new versions of some tracks, previously unreleased songs, and cassette diaries from the albums’ era.
The reissue of Oh You’re So Silent Jens is called The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom. The new version of Night Falls Over Kortedala is The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom. The former album is out digitally now and the latter arrives digitally May 4, with physical releases following on June 3 via Secretly Canadian. Watch the Jesper Norda and Kristian Berglund–directed video for the new version of “Maple Leaves,” and find Lekman’s forthcoming tour dates, below.
“In many ways the remaking of these records is so much in line with what I was doing at the time,” Lekman said in a statement. “These records are a way of keeping music alive. It’s not preserving music; it’s allowing it to change. Preserved music is dead. I think that’s something that makes me sad about music these days, that it feels sometimes like it’s a big museum. Like butterflies dipped into chloroform pinned to the wall. This is music that is allowed to change. That is in the music’s nature.”
“These new records are like portals that can lead you to the old records if you want,” Lekman added. “I think that they can lead you to another time and place, where you could work with music in a different way.” Lekman has also discussed the new initiative on a new episode the Secretly Society podcast.
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04-30 Los Angeles, CA – Aratani Theatre
05-02 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
05-05 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
05-06 Tacoma, WA – ALMA
05-07 Seattle, WA – Neumos
05-09 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban
05-11 Denver, CO – Bluebird
05-13 Milwaukee, WI – Back Room @ Colectivo
05-14 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar
05-16 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
05-18 Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol
05-20 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
05-22 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
05-23 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
05-25 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
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The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom:
01 And I Remember Every Kiss
02 Sipping on the Sweet Nectar
03 The Opposite of Hallelujah
04 A Postcard to Nina
05 Into Eternity
06 I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
07 If I Could Cry (it Would Feel Like This)
08 Your Arms Around Me
09 Shirin
10 It Was a Strange Time in My Life
11 Kanske Är Jag Kär I Dig
12 Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
13 Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death
14 Our Last Swim in the Ocean
15 A Little Lost
16 Radio NRJ
17 The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom
18 When I’m Swimming
