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I already told you about Nordman's Håkan Hemlin turning to a solo-career last year. His colleague Mats also had pretty active solo music life lately, guys were performing together as Nordman but now we have a new Håkan's single "Fri" so it seems like we're not going to get fresh Nordman's release soon.
Anyway Håkan's fans shouln't be upset as the new single has turned to be an awesome dramatic rock-song starting with beautiful piano-based verse going epic in chorus, this is like Nordman rejecting its folk-background and adopting U2's "Beautiful Day". I wouldn't refuse to see how good it could go for Håkan if he'd enter Melodifestivalen with the song like this and I hope I'll get a chance once.

Bingolotto celebrates 20 years anniversary so we've got nice music gift from TV4 gathering recent Christmas tour colleagues Elisabeth Andreassen and Marie Serneholt, Idol Robin Stjernberg with one of covers from his compilation "My Versions", Christer Sjögren with Eurovision-classic "Djingis Khan" and Håkan "Nordman" Hemlin with new solo single "När Stockholm somnar in". Nice selection for the most different tastes.

Håkan "Nordman" Hemlin who's getting back to solo-stage of his career this year has appeared in Nyhetsmorgon to perform recently released single "När Stockholm Somnar In" we told about not so long ago. Another performed tracks were pop-rock ballad "Skenande Tåg" from upcoming album which is also not as folky as you could expect from Nordman's vocalist but automatically turning pretty special with Håkan's voice and "Hålla Dig Hårt" - supposedly to appear on a record too. Singer's throat was obviously not in its healthiest state but Håkan tried to do the best. He has already mentioned in interview that his colleague by Nordman - Mats Wester also works on this album.

Nordman's vocalist Håkan Hemlin's goes solo and the first single from his upcoming album to be released next spring is "När Stockholm Somnar In" which is already out digitally.
It was rumoured before that Håkan sent entry to Melodifestivalen but it wasn't accepted and before radio-premiere on P4 it was announced that "När Stockholm Somnar In" is that rejected track written by "I Lågornas Sken" songwriters Lina and Mårten Eriksson. It's a charity single aimed to help homeless people.
Talking about the song "När Stockholm Somnar In" has pretty recognizable style for previous Nordman's stuff, it's a Scandinavian dramatic folk-pop ballad with Håkan's utterly special vocal and beautiful melody. Single is already noticed by audience reaching iTunes Top-40 directly after release and serves as fine presentation of Håkan's new album.
You should skip at 25.30 to listen to "När Stockholm Somnar In" in its full length.