Strangers in Wonderland – Behind The Mask

By thatch • Nov 27th, 2007 • Category: Music, Rock

Artist: Strangers in Wonderland
Website: http://www.myspace.com/strangersinwonderland
Track Name: Behind The Mask
Playback: flash
Download?: No

Strangers In Wonderland

And today we are back in Sweden, Strangers In Wonderland is an old school straight ahead rock band. They rely on good songs and good arrangements and it helps that Åsa Girgensohn has a killer voice. Sort of a polite Maggie Bell without the gravel. Lasse Thomasson shares the arrangement and playing bits.

“Behind The Mask” is a great little rocker. About half way through my perverse brain started thinking “Hmm I wonder what Jim Steinman would have done with this?” and then the break kicked in and I decided that they were doing just fine without him. Some nice guitar at the end.

“I Like It” is another song that shows off their talents. In the blog at http://www.strangersinwonderland.com/ they note that they have entered a couple of songs for next years Eurovision contest and that they were not even considered. Go figure?

You can listen to some more of their music over at Podshow – Strangers in Wonderland

Well worth a look, I enjoyed what I heard.

UPDATE: I followed up the comment from Lasse below and he’s right there are some downloads available from the band’s website. Have a listen to “House Of Dreams“. What a ripper.

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2 Responses »

  1. Lasse Thomasson on November 28th, 2007 at 1:24 am:

    First, many thanks for all those kind words.
    Second, both Behind The Mask and I like It and a few other songs are actually available as free downloads on the homepage. Point your browser http://www.strangersinwonderland.com and go to the songs tab.

    Thanks again and cheers

    Lasse aka one of the strangers in Strangers In Wonderland

  2. thatch on December 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 am:

    Our friends at “Strangers In Wonderland” sent over an email…

    Hi,

    We just released our new video – Fear.
    It’s inspired of old b/w horror movies and is a somewhat bloody affair.

    It’s to be found on our website at http://www.strangersinwonderland.com or at YouTube – http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=i6D4BLSXHlk

    The song can be listened to and linked from here. http://h1.ripway.com/lassethomasson/music/Fear.mp3

    Kind Regards

    /Åsa & Lasse a.k.a Strangers In Wonderland

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