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Posted: August 23 2021 at 00:35 |
presdoug wrote:
Sorry, I could not properly vote in this, as I have only
heard two of these artists, Flasket Brinner and Bo Hanson. I
would like to give a shout out, though, for guitarist Janne Schaffer,
who I think is a Swede, and was making some interesting music, including
a group I like very much called Baltik, from '73. |
Yes he'd deserve a place in the poll, but I forgot him. I actually own
and really like Janne Schaffer's two first albums (the debut a little
more).
He also plays on the two Pop Workshop albums: Vol. 1 and Song Of The Pterodactyl. I think you'd enjoy them both. Plus he is on Björn J:son Lindh'd excellent Cous Cous - which I warmly reccomend (+ Sissel which is solid fusion as well)
Btw: I forgot the swedish/turkish Oriental Wind too! Where he plays their great album Bazaar and which album Zikir is among my favorite albums regardless of nationality. Their self titled debut is up there as well.
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Posted: August 23 2021 at 01:07 |
Lewian wrote:
I don't know many of these (Hansson, Ragnarök, Ibis, and Samla), but aren't Samla and Zamla pretty much the same band? Anyway, vote for Zamla as my favourite album of them is by Zamla.
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Yes identical I think. I included both as they both have their own PA-page (but idential bio). And I guess this indicates that the namechange wasn't just for laughs, but because of a change in direction...
...in January 1977, SMM reformed as the subtly renammed Zamla Mammaz Manna, to indicate a new start and a new style with much more fiery and distinctly RIO type of rock fusion...
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Posted: August 23 2021 at 01:13 |
Sean Trane wrote:
No Atlas??
| Simply forgot them and edited Blå Vardag into my top 20 albums, which now is a top 25:)
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Posted: August 23 2021 at 02:53 |
my knowledge of Swedish prog rock is severely lacking it seems!
I know Kaipa a bit from that era but deemed not good enough. Par Lindh composed most of Gothic Impressions decades before it was released in the 90's but not enough for it be 'vintage' . It does sound like it though! I love Anglagard and All Traps On Earth (and of course Wobbler!) so I wonder if any of the vintage stuff is better?!
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Posted: August 23 2021 at 04:57 |
richardh wrote:
my knowledge of Swedish prog rock is severely lacking it seems!
I know Kaipa a bit from that era but deemed not good enough. Par Lindh composed most of Gothic Impressions decades before it was released in the 90's but not enough for it be 'vintage' . It does sound like it though! I love Anglagard and All Traps On Earth (and of course Wobbler!) so I wonder if any of the vintage stuff is better?! |
I'm sure Kaipa is good enough. As far as I can remember they were just not something I personally enjoyed (its more than a decade ago though). I just picked 25 favorites from the early era (and forgot a few essential ones). The vintage stuff is generally more playful, jazzier, folkier, psychedelic and (to me) more charming than the more recent prog. Sweden feels like it was an early melting pot in europe, with musicians from all over the world involved in the "scene". A lot of this is quite easy on the ears (Vildkaktus, Ragnarok, Merit Hemmingson...) and a few is probably too close to a "worldjazz" (Archimedes Badkar, Oriental Wind, Arbete och Fritid...) sort of prog/fusion for those who prefer the modern/retro thoroughly composed, symphonic scandianavians.
-Wobbler is norwegian btw.
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Posted: August 23 2021 at 05:08 |
Progmind wrote:
Love the debut of Ragnarock, beautiful melancholic pastoral songs, followed by Kultivator and Zamla Mammas Manna |
As you can see in my album list, I love Ragnaroks debut too
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Posted: August 25 2021 at 00:59 |
Saperlipopette! wrote:
richardh wrote:
my knowledge of Swedish prog rock is severely lacking it seems!
I know Kaipa a bit from that era but deemed not good enough. Par Lindh composed most of Gothic Impressions decades before it was released in the 90's but not enough for it be 'vintage' . It does sound like it though! I love Anglagard and All Traps On Earth (and of course Wobbler!) so I wonder if any of the vintage stuff is better?! | I'm sure Kaipa is good enough. As far as I can remember they were just not something I personally enjoyed (its more than a decade ago though). I just picked 25 favorites from the early era (and forgot a few essential ones). The vintage stuff is generally more playful, jazzier, folkier, psychedelic and (to me) more charming than the more recent prog. Sweden feels like it was an early melting pot in europe, with musicians from all over the world involved in the "scene". A lot of this is quite easy on the ears (Vildkaktus, Ragnarok, Merit Hemmingson...) and a few is probably too close to a "worldjazz" (Archimedes Badkar, Oriental Wind, Arbete och Fritid...) sort of prog/fusion for those who prefer the modern/retro thoroughly composed, symphonic scandianavians.
-Wobbler is norwegian btw. |
Thanks for the interesting and informative summary and sorry about the Wobbler error!
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Posted: August 25 2021 at 14:25 |
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Thanks for the interesting and informative summary and sorry about the Wobbler error! |
You're welcome - and no worries. Prog has become a genre where fans listen to music from all over the world. That's awesome and more important than remembering where every band is actually from.
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Posted: August 25 2021 at 14:42 |
I must say that my favourite album from that period is Atlas- Bla Verdag from 1979 ! A sublime piece of prog
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Posted: August 25 2021 at 20:39 |
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I must say that my favourite album from that period is Atlas- Bla Verdag from 1979 ! A sublime piece of prog |
Yes its lovely, I wish I had remembered them while making the poll (included it among my album reccomendations, though).
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Posted: July 19 2022 at 10:54 |
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Edit: updated with a few favorites I forgot: Now it's a "top twentyfive" swedish classic era albums, but its not written in stone:
Ragnarök - Ragnarök Oriental Wind - Zikir Merit Hemmingson - Huvva! (Trollskog is almost as great) Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar Bo Hansson - Ur Trollkarlens Hatt (but all four albums are wonderful) Björn J:son Lindh - Ramadan (Cous Cous is equally great) Turid - Bilder
Kvartetten Som Sprängde - Kattvals Nya Ljudbolaget - Nya Ljudbolaget Samla Mammas Manna - Samla Mammas Manna (like their two next too, but this is more to my taste) Älgarnas Trädgård - Delayed (Framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i fortiden - also very good) Arbete och Fritid - Arbete & Fritids Andra LP (love their debut too) Archimedes Badkar - Tre (love their three first) Kebnekaise - Kebnekaise (III is nice as well) Anna Sjalv Tredje - Tussilago Fanfara Pugh Rogefeldt - Pughish (Ja, dä ä dä is about equally awesome/uneven) Kornet - Kornet Vildkaktus - Vindarnas Vägar (Tidsmaskinen is quite lovely too)
Lotus - Lotus Blåkulla - Blåkulla Pop Workshop - Vol. 1 (if you like it, you'd surely enjoy Song Of The Pterodactyl as well) Ibis - Ibis Janne Schaffer - Janne Schaffer (Andra LP is good too)
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Schlagerns Mystik (but of course its really just Samla)
Atlas - Blå Vardag
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Now that almost a year has passed, you've probably plowed your way through this list of EXCELLENT reccomendations. So it's time to ask: after you gotten to know them all: which one's your favorite now?
-I threw SPLASH out of the poll as I needed the space for my possible favorite of the lot ORIENTAL WIND.
Edited by Saperlipopette! - July 19 2022 at 10:59
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