Brainpool

swedish

Brainpool is a pop music group from Lund, Sweden. They were most popular in the mid-1990s when they released three infectuous power-pop albums (Soda 1994, Painkiller 1995 and Stay Free 1996). During this period they sold over 100 000 albums in Sweden and enjoyed massive critical acclaim. In 1997 their lead singer, Janne Kask, left the group. The remaining three members continued as a trio and released You Are Here in 1999, a radical musical departure from the style of their previous albums. This new direction climaxed with the release of the rock opera Junk in 2004. This double album is an incredibly ambitious yet easily accesible work that took four years to complete. There is currently work underway to stage Junk as a stage production in the US. The band has performed Junk once live with malmö Symphony Orchestra in 2004. The members of Brainpool has a prolific musical life outside of the band. Jens Jansson as a drummer with numerous acts (A Camp, Per Gessle, Florian Horwath, Bo Sundström, Roxette etc), David Birde as a musician and songwriter (Metro Jets, Vibeke Saugestad, Florian Horwath, Bo Sundström etc) and Christoffer Lundquist as a producer/musician/engineer (Ulf Lundell, Per Gessle, Roxette, Bo Sundström, Ed Harcourt, Moneybrother etc) working almost exclusively in his own studio The Aerosol Grey Machine (www.junkmusik.com/agm.html) In 2006 Birde, Jansson and Lundquist joined forces with Anders Mildner and Magnus Börjeson from the Swedish power pop group Beagle...