Giri

Usually he writes several songs a week. But these days, for Andreas ”Giri” Lindbergh there’s not much left of his ”normal” life, ’cause since the singer and multi-instrumentalist had been awarded ”Demo Of The Year” by Radio Stockholm, he formed his own band and co-produced the self-titled debut album and got signed to a recordlabel and things went crazy for the young man from Sri Lanka…

When he was a little child, Andreas was adopted and came to Sweden. The young musician who, besides sitar, also plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, made his .rst band experiences in Eskilstuna, a little township west of Stockholm. He sang with lokal acts like Superswirls, Yvonne and Dinah-Moe Humm - with the latter he released an album in 2001, but the band split one year later. Since then, Giri successfully focuses on his own band: in the end of the summer they release their debut album ”Giri”, containing 12 songs, which are as solitary as catchy - a refreshing variety.

Giri’s style can be described as guitar orientated Rock music, flavoured with lively sitar sounds from Sri Lanka and outstanding Keyboard sounds – Rock tunes on the one hand, Pop quality on the other and de.nitely arousing. Responsible for the sound of the .rst single cut ”Do It” was Ronald Bood, who also produced Mando Diao and Sugar Plum Fairy, whereas all other songs were mixed by Pontus Frisk (Eskobar, Dilba). The studio album was produced by band-member Hasse Sjölander and Andreas Giri himself.