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Älgarnas Trädgård (Garden of the Elks) was a Swedish band who recorded just two albums, Framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i forntiden (“The Future is a Floating Ship Anchored in Antiquity”) and Delayed. The former album, the band’s debut, is considered to be one of the pinnacles of the early ‘ boom and is slowly getting the recognition it deserves. One could consider it the sister album of the now quite famous Comus album, First Utterance.

Both a juxtaposition of contrasting styles (think Olivier Messiaen meets King Crimson) and a precursor to a number of bands including Japanese noiseniks Ghost, “Framtiden” is especially notable for its use of primitive sampling and remixing which, along with Can, is precedent for the whole genre of . One fan wrote: “young amateur bastard-gods from a parallel universe swinging through the machinery of time, traversing non-historical oceans and weedgreen valleys with a cuckoo on each side. if music is human, this is not music. if music is irrational, this is the purest pure of pure music you can think of.”
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  • LimbGambith

    Изумительно.

    yesterday morning

  • maquinas

    one of a kind inspirational stuff

    January 2012

  • phoustsince1991

    Really very special

    November 2010

  • greg_valou

    Took me a while to track down the second album, Delayed. Crimson Magma flows thick... heavy, yeah. The drummer's offkilter grooving more than makes up for the the lead guitarist's tone and the keyboards keep everything glued together in this apparently live recording. The acoustic work here is even more viscous than on the first album. DL: http://barin99.livejournal.com/545022.html

    November 2010

  • falkmark

    The debut album by the swedish psych folk band Valla is out now (www.recordheaven.net). Please visit www.myspace.com/vallamusik for more info and some music.

    July 2010

  • greg_valou

    hearing this for the first time today, it sounds at times like an even more stoned Amon Duul II... nice

    May 2010

  • IAmMyOwnDamnGod

    i need to find this somewhere!

    April 2010

  • obsessed_nl

    Two Hours.. sounds like Dirty Three 20 years before they even formed. Great band, but we all knew that already.

    February 2010
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