Wildbirds and Peacedrums

Wildbirds and Peacedrums: Rhythm

by Bruce Lindsay
November 5, 2014

As well as possessing one of the finest band names in contemporary music, Wildbirds And Peacedrums--Swedish husband and wife duo Andreas Werliin and Mariam Wallentin--has also produced some of the most intense, atmospheric and emotive songs. The trend continues on Rhythm, which the band describes as its “going back to our roots" album. Written, performed, produced, recorded and mixed by the duo, the album is the result of some intense creative effort. The result is impressive: it seems almost impossible ...

Wildbirds and Peacedrums: Rivers

by Bruce Lindsay
August 8, 2010

Rivers is beautiful; haunting, evocative, dreamlike, sad, confusing, scary and bewildering, it's a truly original work. Wildbirds and Peacedrums is a Swedish husband and wife team: percussionist Andreas Werliin and singer and composer Mariam Wallentin. Werliin is also the drummer with Dan Berglund's Tonbruket, while Wallentin has been compared to Nina Simone, although on this album she more closely resembles European singers such as Paula Rae Gibson or Propaganda's Claudia Brücken. Rivers, the band's ...

Wildbirds and Peacedrums: Heartcore

by John Eyles
June 28, 2008

Wildbirds and Peacedrums is a Swedish duo that combines Mariam Wallentin's voice and Andreas Werlin's drums into a fresh, heady brew that is part pop, part improvisstion, part tribalism. Although sparingly augmented by other instruments on Heartcore, the combination of voice and drums never feels too sparse; the twosome has perfectly tailored their material to their means.

At the heart of what they do are some great songs that soon lodge themselves in the brain and ...