Heartcry

Heartcry started in late 1980. Anders Johansson had played with a band called "Green Sleeves" between 1978 and 1983 and Johannes from 1983 to 1989. Anders wanted to try something different so he started to work on a project called "Heartcry". It was meant to be a solo project and he started out with his old friend, Dan Tibell (Jerusalem), to do an Album called "Come Back Home". They went to Sodermalm studios in Stockholm and with Kjell Lundstrom they recorded the tracks of the very first Heartcry Album.
Lundstrom had been working in Eagle Mountain Studios in the USA and had returned home to Sweden and they liked the way Kjell worked with the songs. The style in that time was more light rock and kind of pop-rock style.
The musicians on the album were Jack Kelly on drums which were recorded in Texas, Jerry Grimaldi on bass, Pelle Petersson on drums, Dan Tibell on keyboards and Hammond organ, and Irene Myrberg on backing vocals.
The record hit the market in 1990 and was well received and got quite a bit of radio play. Some television stations played their videos, "Chosen" and "The Clown."
Due to failed promotion by the band's manager, they only sold about 4,000 records worldwide.
After spending a lot of time and tiring from working to get musicians for touring with the project, Anders decided to make Heartcry a Band. The very first lineup was; Anders Johansson on guitar and vocals, Mick Nordstrom on drums, Mike Sand on bass, Irene Myrberg on backing vocals, and Anders Carlsson on keyboards.
A long touring period took place between 1991 and 1996 including a seven day long Polen Tour. Finally a follower to the Album "Come Back Home" came to place in 1996 called, quite simply, "Heartcry". The lyrics were in Swedish as well as the next CD "Ökenland", released in 1997.
In Japan, thanks to Janne Stark (Stark Music), the band got a smaller success. The Record company Chinseido released a special CD with the band, but the lyrics were Swedish which was not well received, so it quickly disappeared from the market. Back in Sweden, Heartcry's song "Lottofeber" (translated; Gambling Fever) got voted best song of 1997 by Naxos Sweden, so it went quite well for the band.
In 1996, the band went through some lineup changes. Jorgen Olausson replaced Mike Sand on bass and Christian Eidevald replaced Mick Nordstrom on drums.
Johansson and his Family had worked very hard for over 10 years and it started to take its toll, so they finally decided to move from Jonkoping to a smaller town called Savsjo. The Band was put on ice for about three years. Anders was happy living a quiet normal life not working and touring all the time. He soon found that spending time with his family, painting the house and building a swimming pool seemed to be the medicine to get the inspiration back. After three years rest, the vision of Heartcry begun to fly again.
Writing new songs, connecting with his old friends from "Green Sleeves" and doing some recordings did the trick. After a meeting with Anders Köllerfors, Björn Klingvall and Dan Tibell in 2004, Anders felt the need to make a fresh start with Heartcry.
Back on track, the boys started what would become "Lightmaker". Recorded in Anders' "Vital Music Studio" (Produced by Andy Johnson), Anders now felt that for the first time ever, he could be happy with the sound and the recordings. After the making of "Lightmaker", he talked with Rivel Records about a release worldwide. He got the response he was locking for and on January 26th of 2005, Heartcry was officially together again.
In 2006, the band released second album on Rivel Records and their fifth overall. They disbanded soon after.