Adolphson & Falk

Adolphson & Falk is a Swedish synth-pop band, fronted by Tomas Adolphson (music, vocals) and Anders Falk (lyrics, music, vocals). Greg Fitzpatrick (keyboard) and Dagge Lundquist (mixing) were of importance for the successful electronical sound.

Adolphson & Falk in 2019

Tomas Adolphson and Anders Falk met while completing their compulsory national service in 1968 and started their collaboration. In the 1970s they released a handful of singles and the album Nattexpressen and participated in Melodifestivalen 1979.^[1] The breakthrough was when the single "Blinkar blå" ("Flashing Blue") was played in the Swedish radio show Eldorado in 1981. The single was followed by the album Med rymden i blodet (With space in my/the blood). The single "Mer jul" ("More Christmas"), with its self-deprecating lyrics about Christmas obsession and with sampling from Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul (From All of Us to All of You), entered the charts in 1984^[2] and in 2013 is still the most popular Swedish language Christmas song on Swedish radio.^[3]

The theme of the lyrics on Med rymden i blodet was mostly radio engineering, astronomy and how man is related to cosmos. Over the years the theme has shifted from one of technology/natural science to a more colloquial one.

Discography

Albums

• Nattexpressen (1978)
• Med rymden i blodet (1982)
• From Here to Eternity (English version of Med rymden…,1983)
• Över tid och rum (1984)
• I nattens lugn (1986)
• Det svåra valet (1987)
• Indigo (1990)
• 454 (1999)
• Vidare (2006)
• Ännu vidare (2013)
• Vintertivoli (2015)

Compilation albums

• 81-87 (1988)
• Samling (1996)
• 101010 (2010)

Singles

• "För ung för att förstå" (1973)
• "Tillsammans (kan vi nå nånstans)" (1979)
• "Cinema" (1980)
• "Astronaut" (1981)
• "Blinkar blå" (1981)
• "Mer jul" (1984)
• "Blinkar blå" (acoustic version) (2006)

Participation on other albums

• Eldorado. Stjärnornas musik (1982)
• Eldorado. Äventyret fortsätter... (1987)