ST MIKAEL

ST Mikael biography
ST MIKAEL (aka Mikael SUNDTSRÖM) was born in Södertälje, Sweden on March 27th, 1963. Much influenced by the 60s rock innovation and supernatural arts, he picked up his mother's old guitar and started making bedroom recordings at age 15. In his early twenties Mikael stood up for playing in his own rock outfit and simultaneously searching for psychedelic experiences with LSD. But he gave up his rock and roll band dream and went back to primitive home recordings at the time he realized he could not complete his psychedelic works in any bands he had belonged to.

In 1989 his Real Psychedelia had got started - inspired by Stefen Kéry, a psychedelic connoisseur, Mikael released and distributed the debut cassette album 'Visions Of A Trespasser' in 1990 and the second 'The Unknown' in the following year (these two albums, described as 'a collection of never-meant-to-be-heard-by-others recordings', were compiled later as 'Visions Of The Unknown'). Via Xotic Mind Production label, formed by Stefen, Mikael released 'Claustromania' (1991), 'Psychocosmic Songs' (1994), and 'Soul Flower' (1996) as a psychedelic multi-instrumentalist and a sleeve designer. He also wrote a book with novellas in the horror fantasy tradition or acted in his own films during his 'golden' years.

Although ST MIKAEL seemed to be under musical hibernation after that, he actually continued homemade sound production. Since the turn of the century, he has fallen in love with Cheska, an American lady, and formed an improvising three-piece outfit together with her, named JUST BEYOND. In the midst of this project he spent almost all of his musical life in early 2000s.

And in 2006 his Real Psychedelia rushed into a new stage - with Dungen's Reine FISKE (bass) and Fredrik BJÖRLING (drums, percussion), ST MIKAEL has got more prolific again and produced two soundstories - 'Mind Of Fire' (2007) as the introduction, and 'In Harmony' (2008) as the conclusion - released by Subliminal Sounds label.