PRESS RELEASE: THE ÄNDÅ (JANUARY 2019)
Releasing their third consecutive superhit: “Moon!”
After the amazing success of “Hey!” released in November 2018, which charted at #3 on the music streaming platform Spotify/Zero Magazine 30 best singles of the week top list, where it stayed on for over a month, The Ändå is gearing up to release their third consecutive superhit – “Moon!” – at the start of 2019.
Reactions to the first superhit “Yes!” (released in September 2018) ranged from bewildered to awed, and the band has been called a “monster constellation” and “Goan trance hippies”. Swedish synth podcast Blå Måndag reviewed The Ändå thus: “Bizarre sound!”
Regarding “Hey!”, internationally bestselling novelist Amitav Ghosh, upon whose book The Great Derangement the lyrics of “Hey!” were reflecting, responded with one word: “Wow!” When asked if he’d like to be quoted thus, Ghosh replied: “Sure!”
Sir Simon Napier-Bell, ex-manager of global acts like The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Ultravox, Boney M and Wham! declined to sign on The Ändå considering that he has retired from the music business, but in his review nevertheless wrote that, “Retro dance-in-the-woods music by Swedish synth hippies Ändå: Very nostalgic, very seductive.”
The video features the band members as characters in a video game! reported news portal Scroll in its extensive in-depth coverage of the band.
The band is happy to announce that they’ve been signed by classic synth pop record label Xenophone International to release their debut album “Salty Mummy” on CD/LP in the autumn of 2019, so looks like there’s a great year ahead for all music-lovers of the world!
The video for their about to release megahit song “Moon!” is the first ever pop super hit video in the wold to be shot using a cheap mobile phone inside a moving car and subtitled in ten languages – including Nepali, Bengali and Chinese for greater worldwide reach. This will be reported to the Guinness Book of World Records shortly.

Zac O’Yeah is a global writer living in India, born in Finland but raised in Sweden where he played the guitar in obscure 1980s’ punk bands and neo-progressive rock outfits, before he got hired by Twice A Man with whom he partook in several projects, such as the Driftwood Tour in 1988, and cut albums (e.g. Agricultural Beauty). However, his life took an unexpected turn after a successful book debut in 1995 subsequent to which his authorial career has included acclaimed travelogues, cult novels and also a biography of the Indian political leader Mohandas K Gandhi; titled Mahatma! it was short-listed for the August Prize in 2008 as the best Swedish non-fiction book of the year. Most recently he has published the Majestic Trilogy, a series of detective novels set in his hometown Bengaluru. Over the years, he has written for more than 75 different publications ranging from newspapers to magazines in Sweden, India, China, Russia, France, Germany and other countries. In the past year, he has released the travelogue A Walk Through Barygaza, the novel Tropical Detective, and the children’s book The Mystery of the Cyber Friend.
Anna Öberg was a leading hit composer during the 1980s’ New Wave in Sweden and performed with the band Ladomir, of which she was a founder-member; it quickly became one of the hottest indie bands of its time, topping the Swedish Radio’s ‘blast list’ (‘spränglistan’) in the national radio channel P3’s music program Bommen (the main forum for Swedish alternative music). Ladomir toured extensively throughout Sweden, released several critically acclaimed and popular singles, before the band broke up towards the end of the decade, its members burnt out by years on the road and endless club-playing. Subsequently, Ms. Öberg worked on introducing creative expressions in child education by establishing music and art-focussed preschools at which she was extremely successful. Her old group, Ladomir, has also performed live sporadically in recent years. After a thirty-year hiatus, Ms. Öberg made a smashing musical comeback with newly written songs on her first ever solo album, Härsknar, which was short-listed as the Best Synth Pop Album of the Year at the Manifest Gala in 2018.
Captain K. Gasleben is a Swedish pioneer of synthesizers since the early 1970s when he headed bands like Anna Själv Tredje and Cosmic Overdose, before he founded Twice A Man in the 1980s together with singer and guitarist Dan Söderqvist. Twice A Man set the tone for early Scandinavian electronic pop and has to date cut 22 albums, including ground-breaking classics like Music for Girls, From a Northern Shore and Works on Yellow. In the late 1980s, they produced the monumental concept show Driftwood which was based on their own LP of the same title, a multimedia musical with theatre actors, dancers, computer effects and video projections, which at the time was one of the most lavish pop shows to tour all of Sweden. Later, Mr. Gasleben experimented with club music through bands like The Butterly Effect and Beehive Plains, apart from composing music for films (e.g. by Swedish director Kristian Petri), theatre (e.g. the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden) and radio (e.g. the national broadcasting corporation SR/P3 show ‘Frispel’). In addition, Mr. Gasleben works with video.