Musicians appearing now and then on the recordings:

Bo-Anders Persson - guitar, organ, vocals, tape-recorders, voice/vocals, flute, piano
Thomas Mera Gartz - drums, hand drums, tape-recorder, voice/vocals and séance
Bengt Berger - drums and séance
Thomas Tidholm - vocals, soprano saxophone, voice/vocals, com, flute, cowbell
Torbjörn Abelli - bass and vocals
Arne Ericsson - cello, electric-cello and vocals
Urban Yman - double bass, electric-violin
Björn Fredholm - drums
Kjell Westling - soprano saxophone
Ulla - voice

Track list
CD One:
1. Tio Minuter (Ten Minutes)
2. From Tunis To India In Fullmoon (On Testosterone)
3. India (Slight Return)
4. A Glimpse Inside The Glyptotec-66
5. One Quiet Afternoon (In The King's Garden)

Track list
CD Two:
1. Sov Gott Rose-Marie
2. Skrubba
3. Milano
4. On How To Live
5. Blåslåten

The newly released double-CD with Pärson Sound is so much more than just a CD-release.

It is also a cultural cornerstone and an important milestone in the Swedish musical history.

Pärson Sound was the foundation that later led to the bands International Harvester, Harvester and finally Träd, Gräs och Stenar, one of the most influential bands in Sweden at the end of the 60's and the beginning of the 70's.

The original albums of these bands is very sought after in the whole world, and there's even bands today which is influenced by them.

But as I said, it all started with the psychedelic underground band Pärson Sound.

They never released any albums in their time, but this double-CD contains both studio and live concert samples recorded between 1967 and 1968.

Pärson Sound's music is best described on the CD-inlay to this album: "remarkable tribal trance- drone- pre-noise rock music". They blended experimental psych rock, repetitive rhythm patterns, fuzz guitar, minimalism influences from Terry Riley and rock influences from Jimi Hendrix and Rolling Stones.

The compositions were very long, ecstatic and intense with much room for improvisations.

A major part of their music was created at the actual moment when it was performed.

The CD comes with a very informative 16-page CD-booklet with lots of photos and information about the band and the members. Nils Reine Fiske and Stefan Kéry at Subliminal Sounds should deserve a cultural prize for their research to find this material and finally release it on CD.

Subliminal Sounds is also responsible for the magnificent Träd, Gräs och Stenar CD "Gärdet 12.6.1970" which were released in 1996. It contains Träd, Gräs och Stenar's gig at the legendary festival "Festen på Gärdet" in 1970.

I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to have the bandleader Bo-Anders Persson a few times as my guitar teacher. When I'm listening to this CD I sometimes wish that I were old enough so I could've attended some of Pärson Sound's gigs back in the heydays of the Swedish musical movement.

A real treasure! Check it out!

Released by TI'LLINDIEN / SUBLIMINAL SOUNDS (TILCD02)

Contact & Info:
Subliminal Sounds Brännkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 Stockholm Sweden
International phone/fax: +46/ 8 84 56 66
http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/
E-mail: stefan@subliminal.se

Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist greger.ronnqvist@infodata.sema.se