Christina von Blow’s Det Regnar I Min Stad (It’s Raining In My Town) is an album brought to life over a years-long project driven by love and dedication, with the Finnish-Swedish poet ke Grandell’s lyrical, thoughtful poems set to music by the award-winning Danish saxophonist and sung by the Swedish singing sensation Claes Janson.

This is Christina von Blow’s first project that pairs words with melodies. The lyrical content and mood of the poems showed the way, and her melodies and arrangements also ended up drawing inspiration from her love of the Swedish song tradition – from Bellman to Georg Riedel, Cornelis Vreeswijk, and Jan Johansson, among others. The result is a collection of versatile songs with roots in folk, jazz, and bossa nova. And the lyrics cover just about everything and anything that concerns and consumes us as humans.

Christina visited Uppsala a couple of times to rehearse with Claes Janson before they met in Co