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Nice nostalgic moment for BWO fans. Today Martin Rolinski who participates in a current season of Körslaget has performed one of band's classic hits "Chariots Of Fire" from the album "Halcyon Days" and it looked like BWO never broke up. Martin has even improved his work with camera and has definitely become an artist who is ready to come back to Melodifestivalen as a solo-artist. Currently he's in specaulations lists to enter the contest next year along with Alexander Bard's Gravitonas and that would really be exciting to get both and watch their schlager-duel, don't you think?
Afro-Dite's Gladys was singing "Never Let It Go" today but vocally it wasn't her day.

Our blogging friend Johan has come up with an excellent 80s inspired remix of Martin Rolinski's debut single "Blame It On A Decent Matter" that he presents as a part of Les Adultes Bonbon team and we can't help but mentioning it here, you're gonna enjoy!

For those who can't wait to finally get new Martin's single "The Time Of Your Life" here you can check live performance of studio-version (I was mentioning acoustic one before) below. It's not of a great quality but still you can understand what we should expect from it and it turns to a pretty interesting synthpop ballad.

Taking part in shooting for charity calendars has become an amazing tradition among Swedish musicians.
Last year I told you about Caroline Roosmark's calendar. If you haven't heard about it - it's made for charity collecting some biggest Swedish celebritites who participate for free. This year all income will be aimed to help children living in families with the only one parent and low budget. We've got not so many pop-artists - it was only Sanna Nielsen, Ulrik Munther and Marie Fredriksson this year but their images have become as impressive as we use to see in Caroline's works. You can check calendar and order it here.
Alsoe you can find another great calendar with loads of well-known faces of pop-music (Eric Saade, Danny, Loreen, Sara Varga, The Moniker, Nicke Borg, Martin Rolinski, Adam Tensta, Lisa Miskovsky) helping two organizations - Friends (against bullying in schools) and Naturskyddsföreningen (ecology organisation) here. And don't miss some videos of making it.

It's Friday night, I barely made it through this week...
I'd like to share with you guys selection of some nice acoustic performances from Efter Tio tv-show which I missed to mention but it feels like it's the right moment to relax and enjoy this beautiful mini-gig with some top Swedish pop-stars like Magnus Carlsson, Pandora, Linda Sundblad, Velvet and Martin Rolinski.

Martin Rolinski has arrived to studio of Nyhetsmorgon today to premiere his new song "The Time Of Your Life" along with debut "Blame It On A Decent Matter" with The Pusher guys behind instruments.
New track is in contrast to heavily BWOesque previous single is melodic, dreamy and relaxed ballad you can't directly compare with some other Martin's ballad stuff. It's hard to catch how this song will sound in studio version but however it's great to know things keeps rolling in Rolinski's artistic universe.
Martin has got new site and already deliver some fun for fans - competition for a chance to participate in his new video.

Every year since September we get a lot of schlager-rumors getting wild flowing around and collecting the most pop-actual artists into speculations lists of Aftonbladet and Expressen. As you understand loads of these rumours never happen but at the same time we get a solid bunch of artists which are later officially confirmed so at least half of final list is already expected.
We didn't get speculations season started quite long this year though (except previously discussed Nina Söderquist, Lili & Susie, Timoteij and H.e.a.t. with Erik Grönwall) but today Aftonbladet has revealed utterly exciting list of artists willing to participate in Melodifestivalen-2012.
- Charlotte Perrelli is eager to come back to the contest working this year with her previous Melodifestivalen-winning entry "Hero" songwriter Fredrik Kempe.
- Helena Paparizou who was haunted by Christer Björkman many years has finally sent few songs.
- E.M.D.'s Erik Segerstedt and Mattias Andréasson have sent solo-songs, it's not clear if Danny wants though. Seems like he didn't send any songs himself but doesn't mind to participate if he'll be invited by SVT.
- Rebound's Eddie Razaz and Rabih Jaber are also eager to participate solo and both have sent songs.
- Magnus Carlsson who sent entries recent years without any luck was working this time with new songwriter supposedly on Melodifestivalen-stuff.
- Another Alcazar-member Lina Hedlund was looking for songs to partiipate in Melodifestivalen with while band is on a hold since this summer.
- Martin Rolinski who was ready to partiipate in MF-2011 has refused when Christer Björkman wished him to change the song, it has opened a spot for Anders Fernette, now Martin is ready for comeback.
- Few songwriters have written songs for Ace Of Base's Jenny Berggren this year.
- Molly Sandén is looking for the right song to make comeback.
- September's participance is quite possible but depends on if her new material will succeed in USA as it's more important goal for her to work on.
You can check articles here and here.

This summer ex-BWO singer Martin Rolinski has pleased an audience with comeback single "Blame It On A Decent Matter" delivering recognizable electropop sound he used to explore in band so fans response was obviously positive but there's still loads of promotion work to be done as easily entering iTunes-chart single hasn't appeared in official chart yet.
Here we get a first mix of "Blame It On A Decent Matter" from Video Violence starting as some epic historical drama soundtrack going heavy beat electrosound and getting into darkest dub-mix afterwards. It contains whole pack Video Violence usually provides in their works and a bit more.
You should also check Martin's summer performance of the single at Lotta på Liseberg, we've missed it to mention so here you get it.

Back in April we told you exciting news about BWO's ex-vocalist Martin Rolinski's comeback. It feels like it was yesterday but autumn is soon and like it was promised new Martin's track "Blame It On A Decent Matter" is ready to mark new solo-era of Martin's music career and it's presented today!
And guess what? Martin is signed to Alexander Bard's label SoFo Records and due to snippet of "Blame It On A Decent Matter" he's not going to change his music direction as the song sounds really BWOesque, it's electronic, it's poppy and only listening to this snippet we've realized that actually we're missing BWO (though last years of project's existance we were supporters of their break and developing members' own careers).
Next week Martin is gonna be one of Lotta på Liseberg's guests so we expect him to perform new song live and we can't wait to see new image of Martin (hope it'll be somewhat new though if you're hardcore BWO's fan you probably hope it won't).

Fantastic news have come from Nyheter24 - BWO vocalist Martin Rolinski is going to start solo-career this Autumn!
Though rumours were rolling around since 2009 only last Spring BWO has officially announced that band is breaking up and members are going their own roads. Alexander Bard has started new project Gravitonas, Marina Schiptjenko has come back to old band Page and Martin Rolinski intended to take care about his family and new-born child Isabella.
Now it's time to get back to work, Martin has found necessary persons to work with participating himself in all stages of creating new stuff, prepares to launch and gets ready to launch his project already this Autumn. He describes his new music as deeper, darker and tougher electro-pop but doesn't have any plans for album as he considers releasing songs in EPs - in bunchs by 4-5 more perspective. Around 30 songs already wait to break the silence so hopefully soon we'll be able to get a first taste of this exciting project.