ChuniTana - Official website of the synth-pop band
CHUNITANA
ABOUT
ChuniTana is a synth-pop band formed in 2009. It consists of Tony Andersson (synthesizers, vocals) and Sofia Andersson (piano, vocals). Some influences are Alphaville, Depeche Mode and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
WHITE NOVEMBER IN CHINA (2010)
What on the surface looks like a love letter is really a story of depression, lonelieness and anxiety.
Tony: Hyperfixation is what made White November in China possible. I had no idea how to make an album, and I couldn't afford the equipment... But if you want something bad enough you can find a way. I was very happy with the songs I managed to write, but the vocals and production was terrible. I immediately started working on a second album, putting an effort into improving myself. White November will always be a part of my legacy, however. It serves its purpose reminding me of how I started out and is a great example of "learning by doing".
SOPHOMORE (2023)
What was supposed to take a couple of years took over a decade to finish.
Tony: I wrote many new songs, but also made proper versions of the best ones from White November in China.
Between 2012 and 2015, I wrote Love Will Never Let Us Go, Sofia and White Rose Hall. In 2015 Sofia joined the band and wrote the song Say You Love Me. Furthermore, in 2019 I wrote Letting Go, Stood the test of Time and My Best Friend. Lastly, between 2020 and 2022 I wrote Honestly and We Won't Cry For Yesterday.
HISTORY
Late 2004
One fateful night, a lonely middle-school student was looking for someone to talk to. He wrote a message to a random email-adress and the owner happened to be a girl his age. They started talking and even developed deep feelings for each other. However, their relationship would never advance beyond the computer screen but the time they spent together would shape their destiny.
They lived on separate sides of the world so they never met, and both were pretty shy so there were no phone calls, either. As time passed, the boy had to find a way to cope. He started writing poetry (which you can read here) and in 2005, he made this website to showcase his work. They boy asked the girl if she wanted to become his girlfriend and she accepted. But communicating only via text leaves alot to the imagination... can you really love someone you've never met?
Early 2006
One year later the girl stopped writing him, and they lost contact. The boy was very much living an imaginary life leading up to this point, spending more time dreaming about her than working on their relationship. Infatuation is not love and that was their fate. But he couldn't let her go. During the follwing years, he went through episodes of clinical depression, social anxiety and psychogenic pain. He blamed himself for "losing" her and since they never technically broke up, he still hoped she'd come back. He was later diagnosed with EDS, which furthermore caused chronic joint- and muscle pain. When everything else failed, all of this fueld his need to write.
2008-2010
The boy wanted to learn music so he had attended and graduated musical high school. Despite lacking any talent, his overwhelming amount of emotional inspiration helped him write music; he desperetly needed to express himself and there was no better way. Spending one year in front of his computer with cheap equipment, mostly frustrated and agitated, he produced an album called White November in China. It was far from his vision, but he felt immense closure.
Having put his heart and soul into creating music, the boy felt optimistic for the first time in years. There were ten songs on the album, dealing with the time he and Ms. other-side-of-the-world spent together. He had been waiting for this moment for five years... suffering countless sleepless nights in the process. The scene had played out in his mind many times: he'd reveal his music to her and she'd be anxious to listen! He totally believed she would be thrilled and that this could spark something.
But something was off from the start. She was different. Way serious, and very collected.
" - What do you mean?", she asked.
" - Well... it's about the time we spent together." he explained.
" - Oh... alright."
And then, silence. Nothing. They haven't spoken since.
2012
The true purpose of making an album was revlead when his infatuation for the girl finally started to fade. He took a big step into the real world when he applied for a job at a local elderly home. Only two hours later, they called him and asked him to come over. Things seemed to brighten up.
The boy attended an introductory course, necessary for all employees at the elderly home. During lunch, he felt something pulling him out of his comfort zone and he wanted to do something bold. He decided to join the largest table in the room, with a bunch of strangers. This was huge for him. He had been a sort of shut-in for many years. The decision to sit down at that table would change his life forever.
There, across from him, was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She was bright as an angel and her laughter totally contagious. One of the boy's current interests were zodiac signs, so he started a conversation about it at the table. The people were rather skeptical to this special interest, but interested nonetheless. The boy felt inspired by the moment and challenged the group's skeptisicm by saying he could guess everyone's zodiac sign. They took him up on the challenge.
He first turned left and asked the girl sitting beside him, asking what her favorite color was and if she liked to travel, that sort of thing. She guessed her zodiac sign based on her answers and he got it right. Then, he continued around the table, asking questions. He got several right but some required more than one guess. The boy explained that the ones he couldn't guess correctly was due to him not having gotten to know them good enough yet.
Then, he looked straight ahead. There sat the girl he just before had been totally baffled by. She was so beautiful. He told her that he didn't need to ask her anything: "You're a Leo", he said. She smiled at him with excitement and confirmed that he was right. Honestly he couldn't believe he had guessed it right without even talking to her first, but he soon realized how amazing her precense was. Someone with that kind of charisma just had to be a leo, someone as fierce and intense like a lion. He grabbed her hand and smiled back at her.
Before long, the two of them started talking and the boy enjoyed how much he could just be himself around her. All his life he had been convinced he'd have to change something about him to fit in and find someone, which is what one side of our world tells us, but with her he could be completely honest.
But despite everything he went through, he would never change it for the world. All the roads led him up to where he is today with a peace like never before. It's truly amazing what God's got planned for you.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Fredrik Larsson http://jackdawinteractive.com/
ChuniTana is a synth-pop band formed in 2009. It consists of Tony Andersson (synthesizers, vocals) and Sofia Andersson (piano, vocals). Some influences are Alphaville, Depeche Mode and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
WHITE NOVEMBER IN CHINA (2010)
What on the surface looks like a love letter is really a story of depression, lonelieness and anxiety.
Tony: Hyperfixation is what made White November in China possible. I had no idea how to make an album, and I couldn't afford the equipment... But if you want something bad enough you can find a way. I was very happy with the songs I managed to write, but the vocals and production was terrible. I immediately started working on a second album, putting an effort into improving myself. White November will always be a part of my legacy, however. It serves its purpose reminding me of how I started out and is a great example of "learning by doing".
SOPHOMORE (2023)
What was supposed to take a couple of years took over a decade to finish.
Tony: I wrote many new songs, but also made proper versions of the best ones from White November in China.
Between 2012 and 2015, I wrote Love Will Never Let Us Go, Sofia and White Rose Hall. In 2015 Sofia joined the band and wrote the song Say You Love Me. Furthermore, in 2019 I wrote Letting Go, Stood the test of Time and My Best Friend. Lastly, between 2020 and 2022 I wrote Honestly and We Won't Cry For Yesterday.
HISTORY
Late 2004
One fateful night, a lonely middle-school student was looking for someone to talk to. He wrote a message to a random email-adress and the owner happened to be a girl his age. They started talking and even developed deep feelings for each other. However, their relationship would never advance beyond the computer screen but the time they spent together would shape their destiny.
They lived on separate sides of the world so they never met, and both were pretty shy so there were no phone calls, either. As time passed, the boy had to find a way to cope. He started writing poetry (which you can read here) and in 2005, he made this website to showcase his work. They boy asked the girl if she wanted to become his girlfriend and she accepted. But communicating only via text leaves alot to the imagination... can you really love someone you've never met?
Early 2006
One year later the girl stopped writing him, and they lost contact. The boy was very much living an imaginary life leading up to this point, spending more time dreaming about her than working on their relationship. Infatuation is not love and that was their fate. But he couldn't let her go. During the follwing years, he went through episodes of clinical depression, social anxiety and psychogenic pain. He blamed himself for "losing" her and since they never technically broke up, he still hoped she'd come back. He was later diagnosed with EDS, which furthermore caused chronic joint- and muscle pain. When everything else failed, all of this fueld his need to write.
2008-2010
The boy wanted to learn music so he had attended and graduated musical high school. Despite lacking any talent, his overwhelming amount of emotional inspiration helped him write music; he desperetly needed to express himself and there was no better way. Spending one year in front of his computer with cheap equipment, mostly frustrated and agitated, he produced an album called White November in China. It was far from his vision, but he felt immense closure.
Having put his heart and soul into creating music, the boy felt optimistic for the first time in years. There were ten songs on the album, dealing with the time he and Ms. other-side-of-the-world spent together. He had been waiting for this moment for five years... suffering countless sleepless nights in the process. The scene had played out in his mind many times: he'd reveal his music to her and she'd be anxious to listen! He totally believed she would be thrilled and that this could spark something.
But something was off from the start. She was different. Way serious, and very collected.
" - What do you mean?", she asked.
" - Well... it's about the time we spent together." he explained.
" - Oh... alright."
And then, silence. Nothing. They haven't spoken since.
2012
The true purpose of making an album was revlead when his infatuation for the girl finally started to fade. He took a big step into the real world when he applied for a job at a local elderly home. Only two hours later, they called him and asked him to come over. Things seemed to brighten up.
The boy attended an introductory course, necessary for all employees at the elderly home. During lunch, he felt something pulling him out of his comfort zone and he wanted to do something bold. He decided to join the largest table in the room, with a bunch of strangers. This was huge for him. He had been a sort of shut-in for many years. The decision to sit down at that table would change his life forever.
There, across from him, was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She was bright as an angel and her laughter totally contagious. One of the boy's current interests were zodiac signs, so he started a conversation about it at the table. The people were rather skeptical to this special interest, but interested nonetheless. The boy felt inspired by the moment and challenged the group's skeptisicm by saying he could guess everyone's zodiac sign. They took him up on the challenge.
He first turned left and asked the girl sitting beside him, asking what her favorite color was and if she liked to travel, that sort of thing. She guessed her zodiac sign based on her answers and he got it right. Then, he continued around the table, asking questions. He got several right but some required more than one guess. The boy explained that the ones he couldn't guess correctly was due to him not having gotten to know them good enough yet.
Then, he looked straight ahead. There sat the girl he just before had been totally baffled by. She was so beautiful. He told her that he didn't need to ask her anything: "You're a Leo", he said. She smiled at him with excitement and confirmed that he was right. Honestly he couldn't believe he had guessed it right without even talking to her first, but he soon realized how amazing her precense was. Someone with that kind of charisma just had to be a leo, someone as fierce and intense like a lion. He grabbed her hand and smiled back at her.
Before long, the two of them started talking and the boy enjoyed how much he could just be himself around her. All his life he had been convinced he'd have to change something about him to fit in and find someone, which is what one side of our world tells us, but with her he could be completely honest.
But despite everything he went through, he would never change it for the world. All the roads led him up to where he is today with a peace like never before. It's truly amazing what God's got planned for you.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Fredrik Larsson http://jackdawinteractive.com/