Name: Stockholm Strings n' Horns

Nationality: Swedish

Date of birth: 05 21 2002

Place of birth: Södra Teatern, Stockholm

Number of members: 14  (8 of us on the SMiLE Tour)



The Stockholm Strings n' Horns consists of young professional string & horn players with different musical backgrounds. Everyone is educated at the Royal University of Music in Stockholm and has played with symphony orchestras, big bands, jazz & pop groups and at big shows and tv performances. This gives the ensemble an unusually knowledge about different styles of music that is very rare in these types of ensembles. The age of the members stretches from 22-30 years old. (or young? ;-)  

The ensemble has reformed a bit since the start, there has been several members on the way but the main members of the orchestra are presented on the link "members" above. When we're asked to perform on a record or to come along on a tour we have the possibility to alter the setting on demand depending on what instruments that are needed. We also arrange music since there are several arrangers in the ensemble. 

The past two years the Stockholm Strings n' Horns have performed with LOVE & Arthur Lee and with Brian Wilson. Besides that the ensemble reguarly do studio sessions and live performances with Swedish artists. Some of the musicians in the ensemble also runs their own projects, writes their own music and record with their own groups.

It is such an honor for us to be asked to play together with some of the finest artists in the world and we are really curious about the future and hope for further interesting musical meetings all over the world. Don't hesitate to contact us if you're looking for a very cool, different and exciting ensemble to work with!

Some words from Mike Randle (LOVE guitarist) after the first Forever Changes Concert ever...

"The Stockholm show featured strings and horns and it was absolutely incredible, in my humble opinion!  The ensemble were un-friggin-believeable... every note perfect... bringing to life that beautiful record from '66. The horns on "You set the Scene" had people weeping..."

BRIAN WILSON READIES ALL-NEW RECORDING OF LEGENDARY "SMiLE"

Long-awaited Masterpiece to be Released by Nonesuch Records on September 28, Recording Follows Triumphant "SMiLE" Performances in Europe, US, Australia, New Zealand & Japan

37 years after its anticipated release, an all-new studio recording of SMiLE - often referred to as the most famous unreleased album in history - will be made available worldwide by Nonesuch Records on September 28, 2004. SMiLE will be produced by Brian Wilson and will feature the ten-member band that has supported him on tour over the past five years, augmented by The Stockholm Strings and Horns.

Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks, who collaborated on the original SMiLE session in 1966-67, listened together to the 37-year old tapes in November 2003, following Brian's announcement of his intention to complete and perform SMiLE in a series of concerts in London. Acting as Brian and Van Dyke's musical secretary, Darian Sahanaja, of Wilson's touring band, began preparing the music for performance. This led to Wilson and Parks creating new material to make the concerts possible.

The public premiere of the finished SMiLE took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London on February 20, 2004 to overwhelming response. The Los Angeles Times said: "What we do know now is that Wilson and Parks created a glorious piece of music whose grand ambition is outstripped only by its inherent beauty and cumulative power." 
In London, The Guardian referred to SMiLE's "groundbreaking complexity and sophistication" and wrote it seemed 
"the grandest of American symphonies," while the Daily Telegraph added, "Leonard Bernstein once proclaimed Brian Wilson one of the greatest composers of the 20th century: he was not wrong." The Independent summarized the feeling in the hall: "we knew we'd witnessed a miracle of sorts."

Wilson is currently finishing the new recording of SMiLE at Los Angeles' Sunset Sound studio.

2004 promises to be the year of Brian Wilson. In addition to SMiLE, Wilson is releasing his first solo studio album 
in over six years, Gettin' In Over My Head which features guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Elton John, 
Paul McCartney and his late brother Carl Wilson. He intends to perform music from both albums this summer on 
a UK and European tour and will embark on a US tour in the fall.