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Artist:	KEBNEKAJSE
Title:	Resa Mot Okänt Mål
Label:	SILENCE (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SRSCD 3606CD

First ever reissue of the first three Kebnekajse albums on Silence. This debut album (the title translates to (Journey to Destination Unknown) was originally issued in 1971. Liner notes for these three are in Swedish only, but English translations can be found on http://www.silence.se/nyheter/english.htm. Kebnekajse were a loud and hard Swedish rock band. References abound from Cream, Mountain, November and even Jimi Hendrix in a perfect amalgam of British hard rock and psychedelia from the American west coast enhanced by cryptic Swedish lyrics. There is something unmistakably Swedish in Kenny Håkansson's way of handling his guitar -- something unspecified, a tone, a Nordic mood. Kebnekajse did not play electric blues, or have its roots in Afro-American music but was rather torn up and then replanted into the Swedish soil --just to see if it could grow and flourish. Their name is taken from Kebnekaise, the highest mountain in Sweden.

Artist:	KEBNEKAJSE
Title:	II
Label:	SILENCE (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SRSCD 3608CD

First reissue of the second Kebnekajse album, originally issued on Silence in 1973. "It was something in the air," said Kenny Håkansson in the booklet to their first album Resa Mot Okänt Mål (Journey to Destination Unknown). He was then referring to the Swedish lyrics and the name of the group. In the early '70s Swedish folk music was also "in the air." The progressive rock history book Scented Gardens Of The Mind says of this time-period: "...a clear change of direction towards a new kind of Swedish folk-rock with fiddle and electric guitar to the fore, but it also added the hot African percussion of Hassan Bah and jazzy experimentation." This is exactly the type of recording Kebnekajse hoped for with their second release: country fiddles flirting with jazz rock and plenty of African beats.

Artist:	KEBNEKAJSE
Title:	III
Label:	SILENCE (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	SRSCD 3609CD

This is the first reissue of the third Kebnekajse album, originally issued by Silence in 1975. Kebnekajse's music ignored traditional musical boundaries (which must be a hallmark of the term "progressive music"). III continued very much in the same vein, but this time with a more sharply honed politicized edge. This was programmatic, instrumental music with a message. Here you'll find mostly folk tunes but also an instrumental country tune by Kenny called "S:t John" and Ingemar's instrumental ballad called "Balladen Om Björnbär Och Nätmelon" ("The Ballad of Blackberries and Netmelon"), where jazz and rock are glued together by a pure, Swedish folk-tone. The album is finished with an African melody "Mariamá!" pointing towards the next album Ljus Från Afrika (Lights from Africa).

Artist:	KEBNEKAJSE
Title:	Kebnekajse
Label:	SUBLIMINAL SOUNDS (SWEDEN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SUBL 026CD

The highest band in Sweden flies again -- '70s progressive/hard rock band Kebnekajse releases a new album! Perhaps one of the most influential and seminal of their kind, their sound can be heard echoing in most Swedish psych/prog bands, and of course in Dungen, whose lead guitarist Reine Fiske has been working on the recording and production of this album. There's a rumble in the mountain, the forest swings and sings, the wind grabs tones that meander high up amongst the clouds. Kebnekajse may be the highest mountain in Sweden, but they are also known as the highest band in the land. They were pioneers with their instrumentals -- electrified Swedish folk/fiddler music. When they unleash their heavy version of "Horgalaten" at a festival, the ring-dancing spins, the hippie-hair flutters and the knee-tassles start smoking. Current members of Kebnekajse include Kenny Håkansson, Göran Lagerberg, Mats Glenngård, Thomas Netzler, Hassan Bah and Pelle Ekman -- six men loaded with eight new songs recorded in the woods (in the legendary Silence Studio with Anders Lind and Reine Fiske behind the controls) and mixed in the city; amazing electric folk-rock with psychedelic overtones. It is time for the troll-dance again.

Artist:	KEBNEKAJSE
Title:	Kebnekajse
Label:	SUBLIMINAL SOUNDS (SWEDEN)
Format:	LP
Price:	$25.00
Catalog #:	SUBL 026LP

LP version. Limited edition 1,000 copies. The highest band in Sweden flies again -- '70s progressive/hard rock band Kebnekajse releases a new album! Perhaps one of the most influential and seminal of their kind, their sound can be heard echoing in most Swedish psych/prog bands, and of course in Dungen, whose lead guitarist Reine Fiske has been working on the recording and production of this album. There's a rumble in the mountain, the forest swings and sings, the wind grabs tones that meander high up amongst the clouds. Kebnekajse may be the highest mountain in Sweden, but they are also known as the highest band in the land. They were pioneers with their instrumentals -- electrified Swedish folk/fiddler music. When they unleash their heavy version of "Horgalaten" at a festival, the ring-dancing spins, the hippie-hair flutters and the knee-tassles start smoking. Current members of Kebnekajse include Kenny Håkansson, Göran Lagerberg, Mats Glenngård, Thomas Netzler, Hassan Bah and Pelle Ekman -- six men loaded with eight new songs recorded in the woods (in the legendary Silence Studio with Anders Lind and Reine Fiske behind the controls) and mixed in the city; amazing electric folk-rock with psychedelic overtones. It is time for the troll-dance again.

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