Helena arlock

Helena Arlock (born November 08, 1984 in Malmo, Sweden) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist under her name Helena Arlock, and is been a member of the alternative country band Shooting John.

Biography
Early life
Arlock grew up in the south of Sweden.

Early career

In 2001, 17 years old, Arlock started to play in the Indie-pop band Nepal .
She became more confident and found something else beyond the classical way of using the cello.
A few years later the singer of this band moved to Barcelona, Spain, The trumpet player to London, UK and the guitarist to Brighton, UK.

Arlock became the cellist/pianist and backing vocalist of the Americana band Shooting John .

2005, she recieved a scholarship from STIM (Swedish ASCAP) that gave her the inspiration to work more on her own songs. It started as an electronic lounge project with the trumpet player of Nepal, Carl-Johan Elger, and was called Arlock vs Elger.
Shortly thereafter she started to make music more on her own - under the name Helena Arlock.

While touring in Germany with Shooting John in the fall of 2006, she met Canadian slide-guitarist/singer-songwriter Rachelle Van Zanten .
Arlock travelled to Canada later that year to tour as the cellist for Rachelle.

Two months later, 2007, she decided to travel to USA together with Gustav Haggren (Swedish indie-folk band Gustav and The Seasick Sailors )
Three months of backpacking/touring and the plans for a tour in Europe were in motion.

In the fall of 2007 she went out again. This time with Gustav Haggren and also the American Christian Cuff who they met in NYC the same year. These three songwriters traveled around most of Europe in a project they started: Indienational Tour (Cooperating musicians all over the world, helping eachother book shows and performing together)

The Music
Still unreleased, but available on Helena's myspace (http://www.myspace.com/helenaarlock)

Recordings

2004 : Shooting John “Moodswings”
*Backup vocals on "Rain song", "Bright Day", "Under her skin", Tried to save me", "Ballad of the end"
*String arrangements on "Bright Day", "Tried to save me", "Ballad of the end"

2005 : Gustav and The Seasick Sailors “Sirkus”
*Co writing and vocals on "Blueberry Breeze"

2006 : Achordian “A Product From The 80’s”
*Backup vocals on "Georgie on my mind"
*Vocals on "Desert umbrella"
*Cello on "The day that the town finally died"

2007: Shooting John “Happiness +/-”
*Backup vocals on "Love and will", "War", "Words", "Mistaken", "Emptiness of days", "I thought no more was needed", "Savior", "Fragile"
*Cello on "I thought no more was needed", "Mornings past"

2007: John Bustine “Walzes and pleas”
*Backup vocals on "Miss Amputee, West Culver County"
*Cello on "The Wreck of the Good Ship Lollipop"

Awards etc
2005
* STIM scholarship

Other info
Helena Arlock is also running a design company - Arlock Design - and has created albumcovers, music videos, posters, t-shirts, webpages and more.
For example:
* musicvideo for "Charlie Fay" by Gustav and The Seasick Sailors
* album cover for "Sirkus" by Gustav and The Seasick Sailors
* musicvideo for "The Border" by Thomas Denver Johnsson
* t-shirt for Rachelle Van Zanten
* musicvideo for "Fragile Me, Fragile You" by Helena Arlock

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