“Straight from Hisingen’s misty alleys, we brewed our cauldron of herbs and ancient Swedish folk spells to conjure our self-titled album—a thick, heavy elixir that’ll blast your soul straight into the endless prog cosmos.”
Agusa – Prima Materia (2023)
“Agusa’s music effortlessly foliates from majestic beauty to violent outbursts and everything in between. It blends tripped-out psychedelic and progressive rock structures to instill visions of nature, the cosmos, and dreamlike passages, meandering into realms of a possibly supernatural or parallel existence. This is instrumental music where the instruments – and the people playing them – communicate directly with our hearts and minds.”
Svenska Psykvänner – Böjda Toner (2022)
“Swedish psych-rock Svenska Psykvänner first got together in 2019 to make ‘The Hägersten Sessions’. The band, who feature members of Domboshawa, Fanatism, Eye Make the Horizon and Kungens Män, reconvened to make ‘Böjda Toner’. The album features five slabs of improvised, instrumental psych rock.”
Skog Under Jord – Skog Under Jord (2017)
“The debut of Skog Under Jord is a hidden gem in the contemporary underground rock scene. The prog / psych of the Swedes is based on pure jamming character, with amazing flow and development and fiery changes. The typical dark melodiousness of the Nordic prog of the 70s reigns in both epics that make up this amazing album.”
Kungens Män – Trappmusik (2020)
“Kungens Män are rooted in the psychedelic/drone rock tradition of bands such as Träd, Gräs & Stenar, but also add influences from krautrock, shoegaze, noiserock and free jazz.”
Sista Maj – Series of Nested Universes (2016)
“Sista Maj is colloquial Swedish for “the last day of May”. Literally, it’s “final May,” which leaves the potential meaning that it may be the last May…ever.”
Dungen – Dungen Live (2020)
“Dungen Live is a document of a band playing with and beyond time, passionately reviving a slowly storied history of sound. A captivating ride captured and collaged from two shows in their native Sweden, Dungen Live covers all the peaks and valleys, the moments of intuition and inspiration, and the cosmic connectivity between a family of musicians that makes each Dungen show a spiritual shift.”
Älgarnas Trädgård – Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden (1972)
“ÄLGARNAS TRÄDGÅRD are a seminal, 6-piece Swedish combo who made one album in 1972, a cult classic and masterpiece of psychedelia that could have come straight out of the ‘Kraut’ school of Space Rock. After the release of their album, they kept on playing live for a while, even recording a full album’s worth of new material in 1973-74. But it wasn’t until 2001 that this material was mixed and released, on a cd entitled “Delayed”.”
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love – Green Morning Baby (2000)
Obscure side project by members of The Spacious Mind featuring psychedelic freakouts.
Automatism – Into The Sea (2019)
“Automatism is a Stockholm-based improvised rock band. We search for moments when music plays itself without effort and try to capture them on record.”