Out of the Blue Peter Carlsohn's The Rise

• 1 Holy Ground 04:13
• 2 Why 03:07
• 3 Sing the Song 03:38
• 4 Shine Your Light 03:29
• 5 I Want It All 04:18
• 6 You Are My Life 03:20
• 7 Gloria 02:48
• 8 A Kiss from Above 04:06
• 9 Out of the Blue 02:57
• 10 The Dream 03:56
• Total Runtime 35:52

Info for Out of the Blue

Peter Carlsohn, may be best known for being bassist in legendary rock band Jerusalem, is announcing his debut album “Out of the Blue”, which will be released on August 7th, 2020, via the record label JONO, and distributed by Sound Pollution under the name Peter Carlsohn’s The Rise.

Peter Carlsohn’s upcoming album; “Out of the Blue” is his debut album as a solo artist, but there are quite some years of experience behind this project.

Peter began his musical career in the 70s, and joined the legendary Christian rock band Jerusalem in 1980. He has recorded several albums with the band, and toured all over the world. He is also bassist for Rune Edvardsen & Red Band, and member of the band XT, with band members Björn Stigsson (Leviticus), Sonny Larsson (Motherlode), Dan Tibell (Jerusalem) and Thomas Weinesjö (Veni Domine, Cell 9, Nubian Rose).

Now he has his mind set for new adventures, with this solo project called Peter Carlsohn’s The Rise, which is a gathering of other experienced musicians, like Michael Ulvsgärd (Jerusalem), Stephen Carlson (CarlsMo, Gil Edwards, Hilde Halseth, Chakra), his brother Lars Carlsohn, Svenne Jansson (Glam, Golden Resurrection, Jerusalem), and Cutta John Kåre Gullestad (Cutta, Crush, Rune Edvardsen & Red Band, Steven K Band, Heartless).

The music is melodic, but not too well-polished hard rock, easy to sing along with. Peter plays the bass guitar, and sings lead vocals on all the songs.

“I am very happy with this project! These are songs from my heart”, says Peter and continues: “We have had a great time making this album, and I am so thankful to my wonderful music-friends, who helped me to put this record together”, Peter concludes.

Peter Carlsohn, vocals, bass
Lars Carlsohn, guitar
Stephen Carlson, guitar
Cutta John Kåre Gullestad, vocals, backing vocals
Svenne Jansson, keyboard
Michael Ulvsgärd, drums
Guests:
Anja Lundström, backing vocals
Irene Sandtorv, backing vocals
Malin Boqvist, cello

Peter Carlsohn
began his musical career in the 70s, and has performed with artists in all types of genres since then.

He joined the legendary Christian rock band Jerusalem in 1980, and has both recorded several albums with the band, and toured all over the world during a period of 40 years.

First album he recorded with Jerusalem was Warrior (1981), made them the first Swedish rock band to be played on MTV, and the first Christian rock band worldwide to be played on MTV. Warrior was recently voted one of ”The 100 most Important Christian Records All Times”, by CCM Magazine (USA).

Jerusalem has toured all over USA, and Canada several times, and in 1985 the band made 50 concerts in 4 months. During this tour the album ”In His Majesty´s Service-Live In USA” was recorded, and later voted ”Best Rock-Album of the Year” in GP (Swedish Newspaper).

With the song ”Dancing on the Head of the Serpent” (1987), Jerusalem was nominated for ”Best Song of the Year”, at the Dove Awards (USA).

In the 90s the band released the album ”Prophet”, and toured all over Europe together with legendary Christian rock pioneers Petra (USA).

Since 2017 Peter is the bass-player of the heavy rock band XT, along with band members Björn Stigsson (Leviticus), Sonny Larsson (Motherlode, Leviticus), Dan Tibell (Jerusalem) and Thomas Weinesjö (Veni Domine, Cell 9, Nubian Rose).

XT made several records during the 90s, before the band went into hibernation for some years. At the reunion, Peter was asked to join the band. He has recorded two albums together with XT, and during the fall of 2020, the next XT-recording is getting started.

In 2018, XT was invited to play at a Festival in Laos. This was the first time a Christian rock band was allowed to play in the country, which has been closed for a long time. XT were invited back for the next festival in 2019, and for future concerts.

Jerusalem has been active through the years, and Peter is currently recording some songs for the next Jerusalem-album, to be released in October 2020.

This album contains no booklet.