Karl Jakob

Karl Tore Jakob Stenseke, Swedish-born philosopher and music producer. In the early 00’s he was the guitarist and saxophone player of the Swedish grammy nominated band . In 2012, he released his first self-produced indie pop album under the name . Since then he has done two albums and two EP’s with Malmö (Sweden) based indie band . In 2019, he came back as with the EP titled . The title refers to the famous "God is dead"-quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, who used the phrase to express the idea that the Enlightenment had "killed" the possibility of belief in God. In his version, Pippi Longstocking -- perhaps the most famous of Astrid Lindgrens characters, being the symbol for youthful strength and adolescent naivety -- is the one being killed. This marks the end of a happy childhood and the beginning of real life. While the EP received much praise from the international blogosphere, more importantly, it was a much-needed relief from all the unfinished songs that cursed him for more than seven years (it was originally planned to be released in 2014). Once free, he has seen a tremendous surge of inspiration and focus to write and finish more songs - resulting in the 2020 EP . His hope is to finish a full-length album before he turns 30 (10 months left) - or at least before he finishes his PhD. The overall aim of Karl Jakob is to use songwriting as a kind of therapy that can help him express his innermost emotions. In particular, it is a melody-focused, honest, intimate, and minimalistic indiepop, with genre-transcending elements of electronic, jazz, classical music, pondering on personal as well as all-too-human themes such as adolescence, lost love, and depression.