II

by Archimedes Badkar

II cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1976
  • Label: MNW
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 1:10:57
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A staggeringly eclectic document of the Swedish countercultural music scene, this ensemble fearlessly blends global acoustic traditions with avant-garde jazz. Integrating Hindustani classical modes, repetitive minimalist drones, and free-flowing jazz-rock, the record is a surreal, highly spiritual journey through boundless acoustic improvisation. A staggeringly eclectic document of the Swedish countercultural music scene, this ensemble fearlessly blends global acoustic traditions with avant-garde jazz. Integrating Hindustani classical modes, repetitive minimalist drones, and free-flowing jazz-rock, the record is a surreal, highly spiritual journey through boundless acoustic improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, instrumental, folk, genre-blending, diverse, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. Förtryckets Sista Timme
  2. Efter Regnet / Vattenfall
  3. Rebecca
  4. Jorden
  5. Charmante Yérévan, En Låt Från Armenien
  6. Afreaka II
  7. Radio Tibet
  8. Två Världar
  9. Jugoslavisk Dans
  10. Indisk Folkmelodi Och Ett Tema Av Ingvar
  11. Två Hundra Stolta År

Credits

  • Christer Bjernelind - bass guitar [bas], gong [gong-gong], written-by
  • Christer Bothén - cover [omslagets fram- och baksida har tecknats av]
  • Pysen Eriksson - drums [hand-trummor], finger cymbals, bells [bjällror, klockor], cabasa [cabassa afuche], idiophone [flexofon], crotales, conch [snäckskal], performer [tändsticksaskar, metallrör], triangle, vibraphone
  • Kjell Andersson - drums [lertrummor, vanliga trummor], triangle, clarinet, written-by
  • Ingvar Karkoff - piano, cello, acoustic guitar, written-by
  • Anita Livstrand - tambura [tamboura]
  • Tommy Adolfsson - trumpet, percussion, written-by
  • Kjell Westling - arranged by, concert flute [tvärflöjt], bouzouki [bouzoki]
  • Archimedes Badkar - Primary Artist, Recorded By, Written-By, Arranged By
  • Per Tjernberg - Graphics [Grafisk Form], Photography By [Foto], Piano, Electric Piano [El-piano], Organ, Clavinet, Tambourine [Tambourine-trumma], Shaker [Kalebass], Performer [Kaffeburk, Nyckelknippa], Bells, Bendir, Arranged By, Written-By, Written-By [Introduction]
  • Gunnar Naeslund - Photography By [Foto]
  • Jörgen Adolfsson - Photography By [Foto], Recorded By, Violin, Soprano Saxophone [Sopran-sax], Recorder, Mandola, Mandolin, Electric Guitar [El-gitarr], Gong [Gong-gongar], Percussion [Bambu-pinnar], Written-By, Acoustic Guitar, Clarinet
  • Per Lapins - Photography By [Foto]
  • Curt-Åke Stefan - Recorded By
  • Tommy Berkert - Recorded By
  • Torbjörn Falk - Recorded By
  • Traditional - Written-By
  • Bengt Berger - Wood Block
  • Djaković - Written-By

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