Visor från vinden (Songs from the loft) is the Swedish singer Sofia Karlsson's third studio album as a solo artist.
The album is a collection of songs written by poets and musicians from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the Swedish Dan Andersson, Marianne Flodin, Mikael Wiehe, Alf Hambe, Carl Michael Bellman, Peps Persson, and Evert Taube.
The album contains two poems from Charles Baudelaire, and a version of Boris Vian's antiwar song "Le Déserteur", all three originally French.
The producers were Göran Petersson, Sofia Karlsson and Jan Borges, and among the participating musicians were Esbjörn Hazelius, Roger Tallroth and Lena Willemark.
The album had a mixed to positive reception, with reviewers commenting on the quality of the performances of traditional songs, interpreted plainly but personally.
[3] The album begins and ends (apart from the bonus track "Andra sidan") with poems translated from the French Charles Baudelaire.
[13] Norran's reviewer Olle Lundqvist felt that she was "one of the new millennium's musical exclamation marks", and predicted that audiences would continue to be excited by Karlsson's work.
"[14] Sundsvalls Tidning's reviewer Per-Roger Carlsson wrote that the album was more varied than Svarta ballader, but that Karlsson "lives on her expression and is firmly rooted in song.
"[15] Svenska Dagbladet's reviewer Ingrid Strömdahl noted the choice of two poems by Baudelaire, in particular as translated by Dan Andersson, and their settings by Sofie Livebrant.
She noted that the songs were diverse, from Bellman to Wiehe, but felt that they were sung "sensitively and with lovely ornamentation to the varied orchestration.
"[16] Östgöta Correspondenten found the performances "absolutely perfect", commenting that "the piano and the wind instruments are unbalanced so that it is not only beautiful, but a touch bitter, too.