Kebnekajse Releases New Album
Sweden’s Allmighty Subliminal Sounds is releasing a brand new album from the mountainously progressive heavy psychedelic band, Kebnekajse. As they so eloquently put it on the SS website: “There’s a rumble in the mountain, the forest swings and sings, the wint grabs tones that meanders high up amongst the clouds…..When they unleash their heavy version of Horgalaten at a festival the ring dancing spins so that hippie-hair flutter and knee-tassle starts smoking. It is time for the troll dance again.” Click to read more and listen to a track off their album which Subliminal Sounds has so generously sent my way!
Yes, the highest band in the land named after the highest mountain (high being the key word here) invites you to scale its roaring summit once again. They were pioneers with their instrumental, electrified Swedish folk fiddler music, paving the way for today’s psychedelic sound.
In fact, Dungen’s own guitar-wizard Reine Fiske has lent his spellbook to the recording and production of this album. Yep, Fiske (literally) went into the woods (how else do you record in Sweden) to produce this new jem in the crown of thunderous psychedelia.
Listen To: “Brudmarsch efter E Eriksson”
After a bit of Swedish undercover work, I discovered that a “Brudmarsch” is a ceremonial piece of wedding music played either at the processional (entrance of the bride) or recessional (departure of the married couple at the end. Well, Kebnekajse has constructed a whirling dervish spinning “Brudmarsch” to accompany perhaps the recessional of hellhammer-drunk victorious Celtic warrior in all his glory in 400 BC. Or the processional of a most triumphant Berber babe being carried amongst wind-whipped desert dunes in Moroccon silk waving from a throne made of unicorn horns and the tree of life. Kebnekajse has done it again!
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Dude, nice!!!