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Subliminal Sounds presents a new album by the groundbreaking Swedish folk rock band, Kebnekajse. Aventure contains nine new songs that build on the passion and joy of folk music, from the airy happiness and steady rhythm to the melodic melancholy conjured by psychedelic folk rock. Aventure is Kebnekajse's ninth album since their debut in 1971 and the third since returning in 2001. The last album Idioten/The Idiot (SUBL 079LP/080CD) was nominated for a Swedish Grammy in 2012 in the "Best Rock" category. "We live on as if we never had taken a break. For us, music is not a museum piece that sounds the same every day. Our music stands for something that doesn't stop, but continues to evolve," says Kenny Håkansson, the band's illustrious psychedelic guitar wizard with a history in such legendary Swedish bands as T-Boones, Baby Grandmothers, Mecki Mark Men and Dag Vag. Aventure was recorded in the legendary Silence studios in Värmland, Koppom with none other than Anders Lind behind the controls. The album contains five new discoveries from the Swedish folk music treasury and four new original songs. Kebnekajse's distinctive and pioneering folk-rock sound is as strong as a mountain, as in the initial "Snickar-Anders" (trans. "Carpenter-Anders"), where heavy drums, percussion and double basses urge on distorted guitars and violin to purposefully play tag with an elusive Swedish folk melody. But the music also takes new and unexpected twists. A mandolin gives an exotic, pensive tone to "Vallåt efter Britta Jansson" (trans. "Grazing-ground Song After Britta Jansson"). A Western-sounding guitar is accompanied by the now-hilarious mandolin on "Svartbergstrollen" (trans. "Black Mountain Trolls"), which effortlessly bounces between major and minor. On the dreamy "Vallåt efter Måns Olsson" (trans. "Grazing-ground Song After Måns Olsson"), the guitar folk loops hover over a distinct African thumb piano. Aventure offers more African elements -- and three songs with vocals. On the title-track, Hassan Bah tells the tale of how he, as a 15 year-old, left his home country of Guinea and eventually more or less accidentally arrived in Sweden. And on "Battery," Hassan comments on his recent trip to Africa, in the Zuzu language over a high-powered psychedelic Afrobeat. With Aventure, Kebnekajse add new pieces to their musical mosaic -- Swedish folk-rock with psychedelic overtones -- now with more African undertones.
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LP version. Subliminal Sounds presents a new album by the groundbreaking Swedish folk rock band, Kebnekajse. Aventure contains nine new songs that build on the passion and joy of folk music, from the airy happiness and steady rhythm to the melodic melancholy conjured by psychedelic folk rock. Aventure is Kebnekajse's ninth album since their debut in 1971 and the third since returning in 2001. The last album Idioten/The Idiot (SUBL 079LP/080CD) was nominated for a Swedish Grammy in 2012 in the "Best Rock" category. "We live on as if we never had taken a break. For us, music is not a museum piece that sounds the same every day. Our music stands for something that doesn't stop, but continues to evolve," says Kenny Håkansson, the band's illustrious psychedelic guitar wizard with a history in such legendary Swedish bands as T-Boones, Baby Grandmothers, Mecki Mark Men and Dag Vag. Aventure was recorded in the legendary Silence studios in Värmland, Koppom with none other than Anders Lind behind the controls. The album contains five new discoveries from the Swedish folk music treasury and four new original songs. Kebnekajse's distinctive and pioneering folk-rock sound is as strong as a mountain, as in the initial "Snickar-Anders" (trans. "Carpenter-Anders"), where heavy drums, percussion and double basses urge on distorted guitars and violin to purposefully play tag with an elusive Swedish folk melody. But the music also takes new and unexpected twists. A mandolin gives an exotic, pensive tone to "Vallåt efter Britta Jansson" (trans. "Grazing-ground Song After Britta Jansson"). A Western-sounding guitar is accompanied by the now-hilarious mandolin on "Svartbergstrollen" (trans. "Black Mountain Trolls"), which effortlessly bounces between major and minor. On the dreamy "Vallåt efter Måns Olsson" (trans. "Grazing-ground Song After Måns Olsson"), the guitar folk loops hover over a distinct African thumb piano. Aventure offers more African elements -- and three songs with vocals. On the title-track, Hassan Bah tells the tale of how he, as a 15 year-old, left his home country of Guinea and eventually more or less accidentally arrived in Sweden. And on "Battery," Hassan comments on his recent trip to Africa, in the Zuzu language over a high-powered psychedelic Afrobeat. With Aventure, Kebnekajse add new pieces to their musical mosaic -- Swedish folk-rock with psychedelic overtones -- now with more African undertones.
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Kebnekajse takes folk rock to new heights on Idioten. Forty years after their debut, the Swedish '70s folk rock pioneers have gathered no moss. A short biography for new listeners: During the 1970s, Kebnekajse was known as Sweden's highest band, pioneering and leading the Swedish instrumental psych/progressive groups. They electrified folk music and made six albums from their inception in 1971 to 1978, after which they split up. Kebnekajse reunited during the summer of 2001 and in the early spring of 2009, they released their critically-acclaimed comeback album Kebnekajse (SUBL 026CD/LP), filled with pure Swedish folk songs. Two years later, and proven by countless tours, they now present what is perhaps their strongest recording ever. On this album, Kebnekajse widens views and lets the folk music tone find new forms, free from any tightly-held reins. As the band themselves explain: "We wanted to give the folk music new feet. From the vast canon of ancient Swedish folk songs we wanted to highlight songs that stand out, rare songs that leave room for improvisation and debauchery in the spirit of the psychedelic '70s." With these resolutions, the band got into the studio (the same one used for recording Dungen) for three sessions of four days each, from May to September. The result was 10 new tracks. This is unlimited music where intricate melodies and distinctive rhythms take unexpected turns -- electrical and eclectic while unified in a dynamic drive. Kebnekajse have deepened their interplay in their last years of touring. On the initial track "Barfota" (trans. "Barefoot") the electric guitar and violin weaves melody over pulsating drums, percussion and double basses -- heavy and soft at the same time. "Fäbodpslam" (trans. "Mountain Shack Psalm") breathes beautiful melancholy before the great polska "From-Olle" (trans. "Pious-Olle") whips up a furious pace. "Hans & Greta" is tight like a music box in its melody interplay while "Senpolska" (trans. "Late Polska") from Hälsingland becomes a drawn-out, distorted drone piece ("like a grunt from the deepest of halls of the mountain king"). The musicians also break up the action with jam trips and let loose the love of their musical roots. The title track "Idioten" (trans. "The Fool") madly mixes a Hälsingland polska with hard progressive rock. "Stockholmpolka" has a snorting, country feel mixed with dream-like Afro-funk psych and an Alpine feel. The closing Norwegian "walking tune" "Sangenuten" (trans. "The Song Without") is connected with a long tail of psychedelia. With Idioten, Kebnekajse lifts Swedish folk rock to new heights and new psychedelic overtones.
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LP version, limited edition of 500 copies. Kebnekajse takes folk rock to new heights on Idioten. Forty years after their debut, the Swedish '70s folk rock pioneers have gathered no moss. A short biography for new listeners: During the 1970s, Kebnekajse was known as Sweden's highest band, pioneering and leading the Swedish instrumental psych/progressive groups. They electrified folk music and made six albums from their inception in 1971 to 1978, after which they split up. Kebnekajse reunited during the summer of 2001 and in the early spring of 2009, they released their critically-acclaimed comeback album Kebnekajse (SUBL 026CD/LP), filled with pure Swedish folk songs. Two years later, and proven by countless tours, they now present what is perhaps their strongest recording ever. On this album, Kebnekajse widens views and lets the folk music tone find new forms, free from any tightly-held reins. As the band themselves explain: "We wanted to give the folk music new feet. From the vast canon of ancient Swedish folk songs we wanted to highlight songs that stand out, rare songs that leave room for improvisation and debauchery in the spirit of the psychedelic '70s." With these resolutions, the band got into the studio (the same one used for recording Dungen) for three sessions of four days each, from May to September. The result was 10 new tracks. This is unlimited music where intricate melodies and distinctive rhythms take unexpected turns -- electrical and eclectic while unified in a dynamic drive. Kebnekajse have deepened their interplay in their last years of touring. On the initial track "Barfota" (trans. "Barefoot") the electric guitar and violin weaves melody over pulsating drums, percussion and double basses -- heavy and soft at the same time. "Fäbodpslam" (trans. "Mountain Shack Psalm") breathes beautiful melancholy before the great polska "From-Olle" (trans. "Pious-Olle") whips up a furious pace. "Hans & Greta" is tight like a music box in its melody interplay while "Senpolska" (trans. "Late Polska") from Hälsingland becomes a drawn-out, distorted drone piece ("like a grunt from the deepest of halls of the mountain king"). The musicians also break up the action with jam trips and let loose the love of their musical roots. The title track "Idioten" (trans. "The Fool") madly mixes a Hälsingland polska with hard progressive rock. "Stockholmpolka" has a snorting, country feel mixed with dream-like Afro-funk psych and an Alpine feel. The closing Norwegian "walking tune" "Sangenuten" (trans. "The Song Without") is connected with a long tail of psychedelia. With Idioten, Kebnekajse lifts Swedish folk rock to new heights and new psychedelic overtones.
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The highest band in Sweden flies again -- '70s progressive/hard rock band Kebnekajse releases a new album! Perhaps one of the most influential and seminal of their kind, their sound can be heard echoing in most Swedish psych/prog bands, and of course in Dungen, whose lead guitarist Reine Fiske has been working on the recording and production of this album. There's a rumble in the mountain, the forest swings and sings, the wind grabs tones that meander high up amongst the clouds. Kebnekajse may be the highest mountain in Sweden, but they are also known as the highest band in the land. They were pioneers with their instrumentals -- electrified Swedish folk/fiddler music. When they unleash their heavy version of "Horgalaten" at a festival, the ring-dancing spins, the hippie-hair flutters and the knee-tassles start smoking. Current members of Kebnekajse include Kenny Håkansson, Göran Lagerberg, Mats Glenngård, Thomas Netzler, Hassan Bah and Pelle Ekman -- six men loaded with eight new songs recorded in the woods (in the legendary Silence Studio with Anders Lind and Reine Fiske behind the controls) and mixed in the city; amazing electric folk-rock with psychedelic overtones. It is time for the troll-dance again.
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2014 repress; first reissue of the second Kebnekajse album, originally issued on Silence in 1973. "It was something in the air," said Kenny Håkansson in the booklet to their first album Resa Mot Okänt Mål (Journey to Destination Unknown). He was then referring to the Swedish lyrics and the name of the group. In the early '70s Swedish folk music was also "in the air." The progressive rock history book Scented Gardens Of The Mind says of this time-period: "...a clear change of direction towards a new kind of Swedish folk-rock with fiddle and electric guitar to the fore, but it also added the hot African percussion of Hassan Bah and jazzy experimentation." This is exactly the type of recording Kebnekajse hoped for with their second release: country fiddles flirting with jazz rock and plenty of African beats.
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This is the first reissue of the third Kebnekajse album, originally issued by Silence in 1975. Kebnekajse's music ignored traditional musical boundaries (which must be a hallmark of the term "progressive music"). III continued very much in the same vein, but this time with a more sharply honed politicized edge. This was programmatic, instrumental music with a message. Here you'll find mostly folk tunes but also an instrumental country tune by Kenny called "S:t John" and Ingemar's instrumental ballad called "Balladen Om Björnbär Och Nätmelon" ("The Ballad of Blackberries and Netmelon"), where jazz and rock are glued together by a pure, Swedish folk-tone. The album is finished with an African melody "Mariamá!" pointing towards the next album Ljus Från Afrika (Lights from Africa).
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2013 repress. First ever reissue of the first three Kebnekajse albums on Silence. This debut album (the title translates to (Journey to Destination Unknown) was originally issued in 1971. Liner notes for these three are in Swedish only, but English translations can be found on http://www.silence.se/nyheter/english.htm. Kebnekajse were a loud and hard Swedish rock band. References abound from Cream, Mountain, November and even Jimi Hendrix in a perfect amalgam of British hard rock and psychedelia from the American west coast enhanced by cryptic Swedish lyrics. There is something unmistakably Swedish in Kenny Håkansson's way of handling his guitar -- something unspecified, a tone, a Nordic mood. Kebnekajse did not play electric blues, or have its roots in Afro-American music but was rather torn up and then replanted into the Swedish soil --just to see if it could grow and flourish. Their name is taken from Kebnekaise, the highest mountain in Sweden.
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