Sväng Harmonica Quartet returns on their fifth album, Karja-La, which will be released by German label Galileo Music Communication. According to the group, the new album is more darker and personal in tone, yet it still maintains the rhythmical basis on which the group has built their sound on. 

This weekend the group will perform at Babel Med Music in Marseille, France. Sväng will be the first Finnish artist ever to play at the event. Babel Med Music is the largest and most important world music festival in France.  

Sväng, which has been described as ”the harmonica equivalent of the Kronos Quartet” by Songlines Magazine, will play an album release show in Helsinki in May and after that play shows in Denmark, followed by an album release tour in Germany and Austria.

Sväng tour dates

01.04.2014    Helsinki (FI), Kapsäkki                    
24.04.2014    Hillerod (DK), Klaverfabrikken      
25.04.2014    Copenhagen (DK), Global Copenhagen                  
26.04.2014    Gimle (DK), Kulturhus        
09.05.2014    Eckernförde (DE), Medborgerhuset                    
10.05.2014    Kiel (DE), Kulturforum                    
11.05.2014    Flensburg (DE), folk Baltica
13.05.2014    Bochum (DE), Bahnhof Langendreer        
14.05.2014    Mödling (AT), Theresiensaal          
15.05.2014    Vienna (AT), Sargfabrik                  
16.05.2014    Salzburg (AT), Arge Kultur
17.05.2014    Bregenz (AT), Freudenhaus            
18.05.2014    Innsbruck / Tir (AT), Treibhaus