In the silent depth of space, immeasurably old, immeasurably far, glittering with a silver flame rolls a great and burning star that bears the noble name: HALCYON.
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!
Having recently returned from a successful U.S tour, Swedish folk-psych group Dungen played last night in front of a packed house at Hornstullstrand Etablissemang in Stockholm.
You know, just hanging out being Swedish musicians, no big deal.
Swedish psychedelic God DUNGEN (really, in Sweden there’s like, Thor, then Odin, then Dungen) will play the Echo this Wednesday, November 12. The show starts at 9pm.
Last time I saw them play at the El Rey, they were really amazing- at one point they jammed all Jethro Tull up in the forest style on flutes for like 20 minutes. Had I taken peyote, I most definitely would have either found my spirit animal or at least hallucinated Pan beckoning me into a cave. But like, a kinda hot Pan, and less hairy. To read more about Dungen, check out Daniel’s recent review of their new album, “4.” One of my favorite passages:
“With “4,” Dungen further cements its spot among artists who have transcended a superficially “psychedelic” sound, i.e. coated mundane compositions that relies on fancy effects and studio trickery to compensate for lack of cerebral complexity. What places Dungen among genuinely psychedelic artists like the legendary 13th Floor Elevators and early Pink Floyd is the simplicity with which the music is played — stripped down but still tripped out and clearly distanced from that tiredly beaten path of folk-psych.”
Below is an ethereally gorgeous video for their jazzy, multi vocal harmony dream-float song, “Familj,” that is probably totally not influenced by acid and nature. Just kidding, it is. Though it took me some time and a few different Swedish dictionaries, I have determined that the most linguistically appropriate translation is, “Family.”
