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Harvester - Hemat (Decibel, 1969)
I was thinking about how the music world is full of lies and false myths, or at least half-truths. While undoubtedly the Velvet Underground were and still are one of the most influential bands in music history, this is clearly largely due (besides the band's talent) to promotional factors that – it must be said – were decidedly avant-garde for that time. The presence of a godfather like Andy Warhol was not something insignificant, and it should be noted that he practically made every right move, including pairing the band with a talented and beautiful vocalist like Nico. Of course, everyone can have their own opinions, but if I say that, for me, the first album by the VU has practically worn me out in the long run, I'm not definitely trying to provoke. Nor do I think I'm lying if I say they were only relatively experimental compared to what was happening on the other side of the USA or in good old Europe. I believe that an experience like that developed over the years by the three greats of Swedish psychedelic music, Trad, Gras & Stenar, has few comparisons. Here, the group releases under the name Harvester an album ("Hemat," 1969) completely recorded live in 1968 in a small venue owned by the Swedish Young Communists, named after Karl Marx. In eight tracks, the band showcases its entire range. Mystical rituals such as "Nar Lingonen Mognar" and moments of delirious recovery of traditional sounds like "Kuk - Polska," the hallucinatory psychedelia of "Kristallen Den Fina," "Bacon Tomorrow," "Och Solen Gar Upp," "Hemat," and the wild fury of "Nepal Boogie," up to the cover of "Everybody (Need Somebody To Love)" that anticipates the sound of Devo by about twenty years. For me, it's a fundamental album like all the others I've stumbled upon recorded by this genius ensemble of musicians. PS I almost forgot: the recording quality isn't the best, but do you really want to pay attention to such an irrelevant detail? As if that mattered... There are bands today that would pay a lot of money to sound this way.
#harvester #hemat #svezia
Harvester - Hemåt (Silence Records) [Full Album]
#buzz
Harvester - Hemat (Decibel, 1969)
I was thinking about how the music world is full of lies and false myths, or at least half-truths. While undoubtedly the Velvet Underground were and still are one of the most influential bands in music history, this is clearly largely due (besides the band's talent) to promotional factors that – it must be said – were decidedly avant-garde for that time. The presence of a godfather like Andy Warhol was not something insignificant, and it should be noted that he practically made every right move, including pairing the band with a talented and beautiful vocalist like Nico. Of course, everyone can have their own opinions, but if I say that, for me, the first album by the VU has practically worn me out in the long run, I'm not definitely trying to provoke. Nor do I think I'm lying if I say they were only relatively experimental compared to what was happening on the other side of the USA or in good old Europe. I believe that an experience like that developed over the years by the three greats of Swedish psychedelic music, Trad, Gras & Stenar, has few comparisons. Here, the group releases under the name Harvester an album ("Hemat," 1969) completely recorded live in 1968 in a small venue owned by the Swedish Young Communists, named after Karl Marx. In eight tracks, the band showcases its entire range. Mystical rituals such as "Nar Lingonen Mognar" and moments of delirious recovery of traditional sounds like "Kuk - Polska," the hallucinatory psychedelia of "Kristallen Den Fina," "Bacon Tomorrow," "Och Solen Gar Upp," "Hemat," and the wild fury of "Nepal Boogie," up to the cover of "Everybody (Need Somebody To Love)" that anticipates the sound of Devo by about twenty years. For me, it's a fundamental album like all the others I've stumbled upon recorded by this genius ensemble of musicians. PS I almost forgot: the recording quality isn't the best, but do you really want to pay attention to such an irrelevant detail? As if that mattered... There are bands today that would pay a lot of money to sound this way.
#harvester #hemat #svezia
Harvester - Hemåt (Silence Records) [Full Album]
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