Description
Tiden är här is the sophomore album by the Swedish pop/rock band Sidewalk, released on the Swedish gospel label Royal Music in 1987. (An English version of the album entitled The Time Is Here was released by Royal Music the same year.) The album was recorded by Bosse Reimer and Benny Lundin at Royal Music Studio in Mölndal, Sweden; with ABBA-sideman Rutger Gunnarsson producing. Arranged by Gunnarsson and the band.
Only two members remained from Sidewalk’s debut album – lead singer Ken Wennerholm (later with Triple & Touch) and guitarist Tommy Kaså (later to become a producer, songwriter, and member of Ten Tigers). The band’s new rhythm section, Thomas Axelsson (bass) and Pär Gustafsson (drums), came from the disbanded Licence. The band as well featured keyboard player Jörgen Ingeström (who actually did play on the final single by Licence, “Ge mej dina tankar”, released in 1984). This five-piece constellation of Sidewalk – considered kind of a Gothenburg’ish “super group” – released their first single in August 1986, “Våra vingar” (b/w “Lågan”), a song also included on the album Tiden är här released the following year.
Björn Ström, the lead vocalist of Licence, later founded the Swedish pop/west-coast band Fingerprints together with Sidewalk members Thomas Axelsson and Jörgen Ingeström. (And when Fingerprints disbanded, Ström and Axelsson continued as the pop duo West Of Sunset).
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Flyg i väg” – 3:49
A2. “Tiden är här” – 3:30
A3. “Över bron” – 4:36
A4. “Lågan (brinner än)” – 4:15
A5. “Min blick” – 4:30
Side Two
B1. “Hem igen” – 4:30
B2. “Våra vingar” – 3:54
B3. “Vill du” – 3:28
B4. “Fallen ängel” – 3:58
B5. “Och havet är tyst” – 3:59
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Royal Music. Later re-issued on CD. The Time Is Here-tracklist (the English version of Tiden är här): Confusion / Fallen Angel / The Flame / Camelon Girl / Home Again / The Bridge / Run Away / The Dancer / Where I Belong / The Time Is Here.
Live at Scandinavium 1987
CREDITS. Produced by Rutger Gunnarsson. Recorded at Royal Music Studio, Mölndal. Engineered by Bosse Reimer and Benny Lundin. Mixed at Sonet Studio by Pontus Olsson. Arranged by Rutger Gunnarsson and the band. Graphic Design by Ceder Art. Photo by Torleif Svensson.
Musicians: Ken Wennerholm (Vocals), Jörgen Ingeström (Keyboards), Tommy Kaså (Guitar), Thomas Axelsson (Bass), Pär Gustafsson (Drums). Guest musicians: Ki Rydberg (Duet Vocals, Background vocals), Peter Hallström (Background vocals). Background vocals on track B2: Ann Wennerholm, Ann Martinsson, Lollo Åström.
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