Ragnarok re-emergence as a global cult band

the Album is a phenomenon, with a global spread. Ragnarok has traveled east and played the songs in Tokyo. In Greece, there are a cover band that renders the melancholic proggskivan and in Venezuela, the music has been studied on university courses. The original vinyl offered now out for upwards of 1 500 sek.

since it was released. Five tonsäkra men squint at the senvinterljuset over the Bridge and thinking about why it had so long life. An architect and bass player, Staffan Strindberg, three heltidsmultimusiker and composers – Peter Bryngelsson, Peder Nabo, and Mikael Svanevik – and so the composer Henrik Strindberg, now a member of the Royal Academy of music:

" For me the album is a mystery, embarks Bryngelsson, which since Ragnarok disbanded in 1978, heard in, inter alia, Urban Turban, and with John Holm. He is also the author of the book ”Days of foam 2.0” (2017), which describes the Ragnarök, their music is the origin and conditions.

– As a band, we had been through so much before the album was recorded. We did over a hundred gigs in a year. Among other things, we toured in youth clubs and prisons. Songs such as ”Days foam” jammades up with the country's worst criminals in the audience – as Clark Olofsson (laughter). We tried all sorts of crazy things on both the sitar and the violin and many of the songs on the disc is driven by The incredibly resourceful and vivid baselines, he points out.

Ragnarok on tour in the spring of 1975 in the north of sweden with a punctured Volvo the Viking bus. Photo: Ragnarok

the young man in the party who made the music for a number of tv-, radio-, dance - and theatre productions, including at the royal dramatic theatre and stadsteatrar – describes the spejsiga the album as an ”investigative project”.

– There is no clear humbly in this music. You did it in the beginning of your career and you can hear that you were really listening, in addition, you are all incredibly strong melodically but in different ways.

Peder Nabo – playing vintage electric piano and flute on the album that they created in the Silencestudion in värmland Koppom – nodding in agreement to the observation.

" We played and jammed together incredibly much for the recording, we were ... heated in any way. We also had a permissive sense in the band and was fearless. No one was a judge but we played just how we wanted and it was okay. There was something kind of poetry and folkmusic of what we did came up, a lyrical freedom.

Ragnarok with sitar and turnébil - a Chevrolet Apache - photographed on Unioninkatu in Kalmar, sweden in 1974. Photo: Ragnarok

from past colleagues such as Trees, grass and stones, the organist Bo Hansson, and Work & leisure. Peter Bryngelsson remember how the act Made in Sweden with Tommy Körberg and Jojje Wadenius in the front, set the imprint. It also made the early Jethro tull put as well as bluesrockarna Allman Brothers frijazzigaste songs.

Henrik Strindberg plays Stratocaster and flute on the album. Today he fixed on that elusive in the music, which they did. It is instrumental music that does not clearly belong in any particular genre, but has several rootlets in the jazz pianist Jan Johansson folkmusikaliska landscape.

" I think it is one of the reasons that the album has aged so successfully. Fixed how the sound is, of course, are ultimately about it is we play – when we jamming in the day so appear direct this Ragnarökkänslan, says Strindberg.

the Album is something great fun like we did when we were 20, 21 years old, and we had so much fun through the years when we been seen in order to play. Today, we can elevate the music to an intensity that we never had at the time, but also take it down – we have a different dynamic now, much thanks to Mikael (Svanevik) come up with in the Ragnarok.

Kalmarbandet Ragnarok 1974, when it went, fr.v. Peter Bryngelsson, Staffan Strindberg, Peder Nabo, Henrik Strindberg and Stefan Idemark

Staffan Strindberg, today award-winning architect with Kalmar as a base, have reflected on how their years together in the Ragnarok has affected and affects them in the day.

" What is it that has ruled the us no matter what we have done? How have we failed ourselves? I think that it actually has its roots in the meeting that we had during these years, " he says.

" No, but it may be, we are so busy that it is not easy to get together us, respond Peder Nabo.

– We have to scratch, this music is within us, it is in the fingers, but it must be brought up before the gigs.