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Anders Ekborg's finally releasing new album "Painted Dreams" awaited since Spring after his participance in this year Melodifestivalen with Tony Nilsson's song "The Saviour" and gives opportunity to check all tracks from it. Mostly it's classic Anders' repertoire - musical-breathing, soulful, anthemic, 90s smelling songs quite modern sounding though to be enjoyable. No need to say that vocal of Anders works 100% on every track. So all stuff - thoughtful classic ballads (Promise, You´re always here, No One Has To Hurt, Painted Dreams), rhythmic positive schlager-songs (You Were The One, The Saviour), summerish nostalgic retro-pop (I Do Believe, I Come Unarmed), calm acoustic pop (Ensam i natten, Allting som hon gör) deserves attention being quite charming and delicate music. Check below all tracks from the album and new video for title-track - "Painted Dreams".

It's always nice to know that movement given to artist by Melodifestivalen is not wasted and stimulates his creative activity and releasing new stuff. New Anders Ekborg's single "I Do Believe" is out on July 7th. Anders Ekborg is known mostly as musical artist who has become famous by roles in some big projects like Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, Jekyll and Hyde, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar. Keeping his music career constantly active he was touring a lot around Sweden and finally released solo-album "Äkta Vara" in 2006. This Spring Anders entered the stage of Melodifestivalen with song of Tony Nilsson "The Saviour" and though his performance has got a good response from public it didn't went good for him and he hasn't reached the final. However after MF he started recording his new album "Painted Dreams" and before this release he presented another new single "I Do Believe" - pleasant nostalgic latino-ballad with simple video showing some summer shots. Anders is going to make a tour around Sweden whole Summer and will release his album in Autumn.

Some latest news about what's going on with participants of Melodifestivalen-2010.

Timoteij will release new single "Högt över ängarna" from debut album "Längtan" on June 30th.

In the beginning of May Expressen reported about Neo who after all stresses he's got in the MF-period got serious case of vestibular neuritis and had to learn how to go, now Neo's back and as a proof he performed his MF-single "Human Frontier" and previous "Flower Power Supergirl" in acoustic.

In days of Midsommar Peter Jöback got married with his boyfriend Oscar Nilsson. You could see Andreas Lundstedt, Pernilla Wahlgren and Sarah Dawn Finer among guests. Short interview from wedding is here.

Don't forget to visit blog of Jenny Silver as you can find some interesting demos that she's recording with her husband.

Song "Vilar Glad I Din Famn" written by Benny Andersson and Kristina Lung and performed with participance of Orsa Spelmän & Kalle Moraeus gets it's single-release apart from other songs from princess Victoria's wedding included in special compilation "Bröllopsmusiken från Storkyrkan". Benny Andersson commented that he wasn't interested in putting his name among merchandising of this event. By the way Kalle Moraeus along with Salem al Fakir, Anna Bergendahl, Timoteij and Eric Saade few weeks ago received golden status of his latest album "Underbart".

Anna Bergendahl's "This Is My Life" keeps conquering hearts of European audience and is currently at #13 in chart of one of the biggest Lithuanian radiostations M-1, week before the song also appeared in Hungarian chart. Anna along with many other artists performed in Kungsträdgården at Love Stockholm 2010 and looked very-very nice in her beautiful dress (thanx to Vitaliy for photos).

Lovestoned released their album "Rising Love" in Germany, sure band has tried to make this edition special for their German fans and included new song "Who's That Girl", that you can listen below.

Currently Jessica Andersson's "I Did It For Love" is #1 in the oldest Swedish radio-chart Svensktoppen (with following "Underbart" at #2, "Keep On Walking" at #3 and "Kom" at #9), Jessica plans new single but promise next album only next Spring.

Anders Ekborg prepares for release of his album "Painted Dreams" but before we'll get new single "I Do Believe" on July 7th. You can listen piece of new single and another duet with Helen Sjöholm "Always Here" below.

And finally I need to mention that currently we can find only winners of 4 semifinals of MF-2011 in Swedish single-chart.