recorded in 2003/2004, released way too late

610 Toresco - Would You Make A Mighty Volonteer

After a whole bunch of dadaist-pop mini albums recorded as a duo, often more or less improvised both lyrically (what, really?) and musically.
often 610 improvised a beat on his shitty drum kit with no restrictions except 'about one or minute is enough for of a pop song' and preferably consisting of first takes/tries, then in the same fashion the two young dudes added various overdubs and vocals. 
These artsy and naive improvised recordings turned out to be kind of useless to send to venues, because the receiver would probably think we were amateurs who didn't know what we were doing... 
So,
610 and Toresco then decided to form a Live band for concert occasions.
The live band originally consisting of lead vocalist 610, lead guitar player Toresco, Bass man Dockan, Drummer José Colah and Döds-Svante on Synth, then shortly after joined by Scott Hole bc we could never have too many guitars. 

After some success at some tiny local venues, political propaganda parties as well as fucked up talent shows (which we of course won..) we could finally move on to playing audienceless, but lovely indie clubs allover Sweden. 
BUT.

We needed a more representative recording of our Live performances,  bc frankly our live shows was about as weird as the impro albums, but the more refined versions of the songs contained much better aim, energy and professionalism to the sound, and all this with a bizarre and spectacular, euphorically crazy energy that made people think we all were on drugs, which none of us were at that time.
Some times even we didn't know what we were doing, and members of the band have actually been fired during live shows in front of an at least shocked, but also stunned audience with unsecure smiles in their question-mark expressing faces.
We had a lot of fun.

So we re-recorded 12 Tracks with our friends from the band, and managed to come pretty close soundwise to the pop-chaos performed live.
Unpredictable, fun yet deadly serious, full of energy and actually i (610)think I did a pretty darn good job producing it :)

It was later handed out to some friends and provided to the city Library  with a hand-drawn album cover, for fans and friends to borrow and copy as or if they pleased.
After the following summer, the live band put itself to rest.

610 and toresco kept making songs for some years, still would and probably will sometime again :)

We just grew tired of wasting this recording. 
Or maybe.. as we grew older we did realise that this was the ultimate peak of the band, our creativity, internal jokes aswell as our artistic and musical expressions were developing rapidly, and soon we didn't find ourselves funny anymore.
It's the finest source of happiness, but also feels a bit sad in hindsight that we'll never know anything about the future, right until it just passes us by, which leads me to feel confident that sometimes unexpected actions are on purpose, wether people will understand it or not.

Thanks for listening to really cool music <3

Vulgo Cube

is it this in that?

One of many crimes committed in the history of planet earth was when  the handsome, young, drunk and gardinmantelklädde lead singer 610 was on tour with another Södertälje-based band called Vanessa.
After a show at Ladan in Gimo, having beers at Fredmans or some place in Uppsala 610 used the outdoor 'stonewall in the alley'-toilet and was arrested, fined and lawfully corrected.

The lyrics don't reflect over this crime, but the song title shares it's code of misdemeanor along with coincidental metaphorical content..

It was recorded and posted to Myspace in late 2005 and hidden away since Myspace died and Tom deleted his first ever "Thanks for the add"-comment.

personel:
Henrik Toresson: Guitars, keyboards
Mikael Norstedt, drums, bass, vocals & percussion
Produced by 610Toresco

930A

Old album released in 2003
enjoy, please.

Low bench with back support

Ramonas Turf

schu

Saturday night

Mel F

three of the greatest songs we ever made according to 610.

'I'd rather have lots of friends, than to get shot int the head' was initially released on the album called 'Murphys Cattle' but then named 'Hackers' and had a weird chorus compared to this very progressive still catchy one.

'My sweet Klotton' and 'The nose between four eyes' was available at a swedish website/music platform called 'allears.com' where the songs received great comments by mr Breitholz himself.. but we didn't care :(

The Nose Between Four Eyes

My Sweet Klotton

I'd Rather Have Lots Of Friends, Than To Get Shot In The Head

2011 just called and wanted the creativity back...

God Jul Firas

the drum machine of the electric organ as well as its weird trumpet sound through a wah wah pedal and tons of analog delay made me do it!
2 mics on the drums.. Di bass, KM186 on guitars and vocals. staircase reverb.. didn't finish it though.

Paychance

Rare live take from Trombon, Södertälje in 2004.
610Toresco was elected winner of LT/ABF-Funded competition called Spinnrocken the year before.
We were asked to appear as a 'Pause act' while the jury was deciding which band had won this year....

Personel: 610, Vocals, Tambourine, Toresco, Audible Electric Guitar, Shaunte Hoshi, Korg MS2000, byxor, Don Colaps, Drums, Birger Lindström, Electric bass, inaudiable vocals, Sott Hole, Inaudiable electric guitar, background and vocals vocals.
Recorded By Klas Dahlström onto ADAT via monitor sends from the live mixer i was doing live sound for?
then mixed obto 2-track tape and distorted in 2021, please enjoy.

610toresco - Sogging My Damn Prune Live at Spinnrocken 2004

i got an idea for a new song, it goes like this

it goes like this

Henrik Toresson and Mikael Norstedt started recording together in "Lekis", a Swedish kind of kindergarten. Recordings ranging from the (luckily) unaired radio show 'galant', death/black metal attempts, political punk songs and entire cassette tapes full of farts to impersonations of Svullo and Axl Rose.
In our late teens we started a new project, the idea of recording improvised pop-songs and only using first takes made songwriting a new and exciting task, it also in hindsight occurs to be incredibly brave since both of us always had and have been serious with music and musicianship.
In between playing smooth jazz, progressive metal, indie pop, garage rock and brave attempts to cover works of Frank Zappa along with drummer legend and childhood friend Filip Fjellström, our increasing interest in recording led us to invest in our first 'real' device, a Fostex VF-08 Digital multitracker, later replaced by the big brother VF-16. With a bunch of cheap microphones and little to none knowledge we started to experiment and learn.
We often started out with the drums, basically 610 would just try to play something for one to four minutes, then we added bass and guitars, keyboards and other noises and finally vocals, often with improvised lyrics. 
One album would take us two or three sessions to complete, and during the first year we made 10 of them and sold to our friends for 20 spänn.

the somewhat dadaistic outlet for the duo was as honest as it was misunderstood, and these recordings were often of pretty poor quality in most aspects.. but the naive force was and still is what's most interesting and awesome. And even though it proved difficult to impress or even reach any listener who didn't know or care about our workflow, we still wanted to, and some of the songs were actually really cool.. We ultimately decided to put together a live band in 2003 i think? 
The lineup consisted of 610 (Mikael), vocals and paraphernalia, Toresco(Henrik), Electric guitar and sometimes flute, José Colah/Don Colaps/Teddy Strap-on/Donpa C/Danne Molin/Daniel Molin, drums, his younger brother Scott Hole/Brett Burner/Krister the Fister/Sebbe Molin/Sebastian Molin, electric guitar, Biggen/Dockan/Stenen/Lindströmarn/Birger Lindström, Bass guitar and Döds-svante/Synt-svante/Shaunte Hoshi/Horman/Svante Hellberg.
We recorded the "best of" of our favourite songs with the band and released the Album "Vulgo Cube" in 2006?
We did bizarre and applauded live performances mostly at Old McLovis and Spinnrocken in Södertälje, but a few out of town shows i can remember now was Kulturkentauren in Kristianstad, Mayday Club at Sticky Fingers in Göteborg, Vårdinge by Folkhögskola in Yllehooden and Klubb Agaton in Uppsala.
Though we never disbanded, geography, studies, starting families, generally growing up and participating in various other music acts led to a halt in production, and songs started to take another form as we'd only meet once or twice a year, and for the last album "theseguysdisguisetheskies", comparably  few improvisational elements were kept.
Mikael started his one-man-project "The Person" and joined as a live drummer and later member of the genius cult band "Bondage Fairies" and Henrik started "Svarta Stugan" and did lots of session work including substituting as bass-player for a tour with Bondage Fairies in 2012.
after too many years in the storage, a taste of the works of 610Toresco is now available for you to experience.

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