Cold Cajun (written by Thor Ahlgren) from Alligator Gumbo´s second album Simmerin'!

“This music makes me want to dance,” said my wife, Pat, when she listened to Alligator Gumbo’s new CD.

" - I first heard about the band a couple of years ago. I was reading news from the “old country” and noticed that a local Cajun band (AG) would perform at the annual festival in Malmö, Sweden.

I eventually found a few clips on You Tube, and heard pieces from a self-produced CD with eight traditional Cajun numbers. The music was definitely Cajun and the vocals were sung in Cajun French. Maybe the musical dialect was a little different, but the language was definitively the same. 

I thought, “why not ... why shouldn’t a band of Swedes be able to interpret the music of rural south Louisiana”? After all, one can listen to some great New Orleans jazz in Copenhagen , Denmark, just across the sound from Malmö.
A couple of months before this CD was recorded Thor visited Louisiana’s Cajun Country for the first time. He was able to sit in with local musicians at jam sessions in Eunice and Lafayette. It was at these places that he introduced a novelty at the jams, bagpipes. The pipes were played alongside the French accordions and the fiddles, and easily fit the mix.

So here’s Simmerin’, Alligator Gumbo’s second album with French music, as the Cajuns call their music. We get twelve tunes. Ten of them are traditional songs. Two of the numbers are Thor’s compositions. Le Long voyage was written just before he departed on his journey back to Sweden. Cold Cajun was written as an afterthought when he returned to the north. Alligator Gumbo adds bagpipes to their take on the Cajun gumbo on two tracks. 

The Cajun gumbo is necessarily not hot with pepper, but it’s well seasoned. Thor’s bagpipes add another seasoning to the simmering gumbo pot.

Simmerin’ is a good example of the music of south Louisiana. It’s social music, made for family gatherings and other parties. This is how it sometimes sounds on  back porches, or at the dance halls here.

So let’s boil some crawfish, ice down the beer, and let’s dance!

Bengt Lindell 
Welsh, Louisiana 


Cold Cajun - Alligator Gumbo (T.Ahlgren)

Eunice One-Step from Alligator Gumbo´s second album Simmerin'!

“This music makes me want to dance,” said my wife, Pat, when she listened to Alligator Gumbo’s new CD.

" - I first heard about the band a couple of years ago. I was reading news from the “old country” and noticed that a local Cajun band (AG) would perform at the annual festival in Malmö, Sweden.

I eventually found a few clips on You Tube, and heard pieces from a self-produced CD with eight traditional Cajun numbers. The music was definitely Cajun and the vocals were sung in Cajun French. Maybe the musical dialect was a little different, but the language was definitively the same. 

I thought, “why not ... why shouldn’t a band of Swedes be able to interpret the music of rural south Louisiana”? After all, one can listen to some great New Orleans jazz in Copenhagen , Denmark, just across the sound from Malmö.
A couple of months before this CD was recorded Thor visited Louisiana’s Cajun Country for the first time. He was able to sit in with local musicians at jam sessions in Eunice and Lafayette. It was at these places that he introduced a novelty at the jams, bagpipes. The pipes were played alongside the French accordions and the fiddles, and easily fit the mix.

So here’s Simmerin’, Alligator Gumbo’s second album with French music, as the Cajuns call their music. We get twelve tunes. Ten of them are traditional songs. Two of the numbers are Thor’s compositions. Le Long voyage was written just before he departed on his journey back to Sweden. Cold Cajun was written as an afterthought when he returned to the north. Alligator Gumbo adds bagpipes to their take on the Cajun gumbo on two tracks. 

The Cajun gumbo is necessarily not hot with pepper, but it’s well seasoned. Thor’s bagpipes add another seasoning to the simmering gumbo pot.

Simmerin’ is a good example of the music of south Louisiana. It’s social music, made for family gatherings and other parties. This is how it sometimes sounds on  back porches, or at the dance halls here.

So let’s boil some crawfish, ice down the beer, and let’s dance!

Bengt Lindell 
Welsh, Louisiana 


Eunice One-Step - Alligator Gumbo

2 versions of the song "Allons a Hajom" from the swedish cajun band Alligator Gumbo´s music video. Release dec 2018.

www.alligatorgumbo.com

Allons A Hajom

Allons A Hajom (Old radio)

Music from the price winning Swedish cajun band Alligator Gumbo's music video "Cajun i Hajom"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNorYKoOEK0

Alligator Gumbo's website

Alligator Gumbo
Thor Ahlgren - Accordion & Bagpipes
Fred Sörensson - Fiddle
Leif Eriksson - Guitar
Dan Englund - Double Bass
Josefin Edensvärd - Vocal & Triangle

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered in Hajom, Sweden by
Pablo Sorribes Bernhard
www.pablosorribes.co

Hej Josefin

One of the 4/13 songs from Live at Norberg that is released 1/1-2020. Alligator Gumbo's third album.

Inspelat i Norberg av Börje Svensson på Abrahamsgården med stöd av Kommunen & Västmanlandsmusiken

Mix/Master av Per Tidstrand, monophon.se, Design Leif Eriksson byrån på landet 2019

Eric Kalén Abrahamsgården – Ett Kulturliv för Alla: Lars-Erik Lärnemark Norbergs Kommun & Christofer Ekströmmer Västmanlandsmusiken – Ljud & Foto SGV-recording: Börje Svensson - Foto: Thorfinn Dehlin - Tobias Back näringslivs- och fritidschef - Värdshuset Engelbrekt & Puben Port Arthur.

Inspelat i Norberg Juni 2019

Design Leif Eriksson, Byrån på Landet

Mix/Master Per Tidstrand, Monophon

Produktion Thor Ahlgren

Jongle Á Moi

Fönster Mot En Gård

J'Suis Parti Au Texas

Les Flammes D Enfer

Alligator Gumbo - unpolished traditional and self written Cajun music from the heart!

Cajun music is a world heritage that was born and developed by the French immigrants in South Western Louisiana during the 19th century. Alligator Gumbo is a band from southern Sweden that, due to the members' love for the music of southern Louisiana, interprets and plays traditional and self-written Cajun music in a way that is true to tradition. The vocals are unrestrained and emotional and sung in Louisiana French, the particular French dialect developed in Louisiana.

The passion for this music rubs off on the audience, and especially on the dance floor. 
The great enthusiasm of the organizers and the audience immediately made Alligator Gumbo decide to record a CD. The album, named Lacassine Special was released in 2012..

In October 2013, Alligator Gumbo´s accordionist Thor Ahlgren travelled around south Louisiana, jamming with legends of cajun and zydeco music. Thor had brought one of his bagpipes with him on the trip and surprised everyone by tearing off some Cajun songs on it.

2014
Now after long journeys (Le long voyage), new meetings, many dances and a continued joy togheter we now present Alligator Gumbo's second album Simmerin'

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