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Edson was formed by Pelle Carlberg
in the summer of 1998, and he named the band after the great soccer
player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, i.e. Pelé. The first
couple of months the piano took a prominent part in the sound,
giving the songs a tangible jazz pop flavour. Initially the band
was Pelle's solo project, but since then it has more and more
developed into a democratic unity, with Pelle as the songwriter
and lead singer.
In december of 1999 the band got the formation it has today:
Pelle sings, Filip Carvell plays the acoustic and the electric
guitar and sings, Helena Söderman plays the flute, melodica,
harmonica, glockenspiel, Wurlitzer and sings, Mårten Josjö
plays the electric guitar, Mats Deltin plays the bass and Ulf
Lundberg the drums.
In 1999 Edson made about 30 live appearances,
e.g. one at the demo stage of the Hultsfred festival in Sweden.
After the performance Edson met John Cloud, who was interested in
releasing something on his label Stormstreet records. In September
a four-track EP was released containing the songs »Sunday,
loverly sunday«, »I Didn´t Mean to be Mean«,
»22:22 {We Need a Quarrel, We Need a Fight}« and »Terry
Whips«.
The same year the band contributed with two
songs on the compilation CD »The Sound of Young Sweden«
and with one song each on Sound Affects Magazine's »Hultsfred
special-CD« and the »Demoscenen«-CD of the Hultsfred
festival. The »Sunday, lovely sunday« EP was also released
by Matinée Recordings in the US, but with a slightly different
tracklist.
In the autumn of -00 Edson was signed to Summersound Recordings
and recorded their debut album »Unwind with edson«,
which was released February 14 2001 and was received well.
Album number two, »For Strength«, was recorded and
mixed during ten intensive days in the end of December of 2001,
once again with Andreas Ahlenius as technician and once again
mainly in the rock metropolis of Gävle, Sweden. The result
is very satisfactory. Edson has evolved as a unity, and their
sound is more homogenous and personal.
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