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Sep 10, 2009 - Thomas Gartz later became a member of Arbete & Fritid. 1 TRAD, GRAS & STENAR 1970 DECIBEL DRS 3702 2 DJUNGLENS. Blog Archive. Arbete & Fritid rose out of The Roland Keijser Quartet, a powerhouse jazz combo that emerged on the fertile Swedish jazz scene of the 60's. Sax player Keijser was one of the original core members of Arbete & Fritid, but then again – they had only core members.
Swedish new-music, folk, jazz and rock group of the 1970's. Arbete Och Fritid means Work And Play. They were an extremely influential and seminal band, a meeting ground for musicians from many other bands before and after, especially as a link between Harvester and Archimedes Badkar.
Early recordings cross-bred traditional Swedish folk themes with systemic and contemporary styles, with vaguely rock rhythms and jazz instruments. They were never easy to classify, running through many styles, encompassing melody, fury and dissonance, through to almost straight folk, and all other bases.
They also recorded albums with other musicians, sometimes in collaboration or just as the backing band, played at folk, jazz and rock festivals. Their final album Håll Andan 'Keep the spirit' from 1979 was a no-holds-barred exploration in innovation, pushing the envolope in a manner similar to the German band Faust.
All the musicians in Arbete Och Fritid have gone onto other projects, many still active 30+ years on.
Arbete Och Fritid Early recordings cross-bred traditional Swedish folk themes with systemic and contemporary styles, with vaguely rock rhythms and jazz instruments. They were never easy to classify, running through many styles, encompassing melody, fury and dissonance, through to almost straight folk, and all other bases.
They also recorded albums with other musicians, sometimes in collaboration or just as the backing band, played at folk, jazz and rock festivals. Their final album Håll Andan 'Keep the spirit' from 1979 was a no-holds-barred exploration in innovation, pushing the envolope in a manner similar to the German band Faust.
All the musicians in Arbete Och Fritid have gone onto other projects, many still active 30+ years on.
1979
Hall Andan
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01. Harmageddon Boogie3:1302. Halvdans10:43
03. Jag Föddes En Dag8:01
04. Kopparna På Bordet7:18
05. Vägvisa1:23
06. Dorisk Dron6:41
07. Thulcandra7:43
Ove Karlsson: cello, electric guitar, organ, zither, vocals, backing vocals
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Tord Bengtsson: piano, violin, drums, bells, accordion, backing vocals, ring modulatorTorbjörn Abelli: upright bass, electric bass, backing vocals, organ
Torbjörn Falk: electric guitar, performer, engineer
Thomas Mera Gartz: vocals, electric guitar, tenor saxophone, drums, tambourine, flute, bells, violin
Ulf Wallander: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Recorded at MNW's Studio October 1978 and January 1979.
One of the cornerstone bands of the Swedish psychedelic continuum, Arbete & Fritid featured members of many of the most notable units of the era (Parsson Sound, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Harvester/International Harvester, Archimedes Badkar et.al.), though unlike their sister bands, Arbete & Fritid would counterpoint their manifestations of the hallmark Swedish drone/trudge psych aesthetic with irreverant dips into the genre wells of everything from faux-Elvis Presley ramalamma, to frenzied improv cacophany. More Arbete & Fritid brilliance will follow in the coming days...
Their best, and it's stupid this hasn't been reissued. Arbete och Fritid had a handful of different styles/directions they pursued over their career. They started as a jazz-inflected ethno folk group, then became an almost entirely acoustic pure ethno folk group. Se upp för livet, on the other hand, was this sprawling, slightly odd mishmash that was almost Faust-y at times. Going through that album made this band's inclusion on the NWW list make a lot more sense, as that's where that sound starts in their catalog.
But this? It's RIDICULOUS here. Droney, krauty experimental rock that hovers between minimalism and surprising levels of heavy (Jag foddes en dag starts off sounding like Venom, and I'm not at all kidding).
And what's better, the B-side harkens back to the sound of their very first album, when the jazz drumming and changes (along with more Agitation Free-esque ethno-trance stuff) were still a part of what they were doing. There ain't none of yer plaintive, Nordic folk stuff here. These guys have gone full weird.
Well, well worth finding.
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