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A conversation with Jakob Sindahl, frontman of Swedish band Puh:

Dingus: Let’s talk a little about your origins.  Who formed the band?  For what purpose and how?

Jakob: Well, the funny thing is that our band actually began as a solo project with no one but me. I had been playing in a typical alternative band with some of my mates and the two-note chords were beginning to feel mundane. I wanted to do something of my own with nothing but me and an atmospheric guitar. After writing a few songs I found that I missed the opportunity to write for several instruments and began imagining instruments to write for. Suddenly my solo project had become a seven-people orchestra and my well thought-out lyrics had been switched to the shimmering notes of the glockenspiel. Our band is actually just me, writing songs that I think sound nice and telling a group of musicians what to do. Often I imagine writing for movies or books – sort of a dream for me.

Does Puh have any plans to release a full length?

We haven’t got any plans for anything, to be honest. We just like to play fun music together and besides, we could never raise the cash it would take to record a full length album.

How does Puh record the singles?  What kind of technology are you working with?

We’ve been working in an extremely small studio in the center of our home town, Norrköping, with a technician financed by our local government. We were offered 10 free hours in the studio if we signed a few papers and the decision was easy, of course. The studio was very, very small and worn out sm 57′s were lying everywhere. The studio snare was broken to pieces by some metal dickheads so we had to steal one from the nearby music school!

The government funds the arts on such a local level?  That’s pretty amazing.

Yeah, it’s pretty remarkable they do that. As sort of mentioned, the gear was not the best but we managed to get one of our wicked-technician friends to record everything for us so all worked out fine.