Up to now he released two albums, a split EP and some 7”. Three years ago Bjorn started to run a small record label with a few friends in Gothenburg, Johnny Brttom Records. In 2004 he did about 60 shows somewhere around europe, playing solo or helping friends out like Laurel Music or Boy Omega.
His music sounds like a long deep sigh, as if he digs out all his emotions, his feelings and dispread them just in front of us. damped arrangements, a doleful voice and here and there a little bit of sunshine. Floating melodies and moony moments.
Songs that grow and grow vast and not causeless have been compared to Elliott Smith and Will Oldham. It would just be too easy to see in Bjorn Kleinhenz nothing but the new Northern Singer/Songwriter Sensation. To be just that, his design of contemplation is too close to the less geographically obvious heroes in adagio, just as The Jayhawks, Canyon or Early Day Miners. Closest though to his own melancholies.
His third album is called Quietly Happy And Deep Inside and will be released in March. He has involved numerous instruments doing the new songs. Kleinhenz: „They were all sung with a swarm of locusts in my head in a dark candle lit room on the first floor of the roughest house in Linnéstan with water dripping from the roof into a bucket at my feet.” This is how great songs emerges …
"These eleven songs are what I have to give. I love them." (Bjorn Kleinhenz)
press:
"Brought up by Nick Drake and Tim Buckley and blessed with a useful unreasonableness " (visions)
"…impressive arrangements and intensive performance." (Glitterhouse)
"He does beautiful Sweden Pop à la Kristofer Åström, low key, emotional, with a bunch of great instruments" (Plattentest.de)
