Recorded 1978 at Peter Björlins attic, Lina Hage outside Södertälje. The phenomenal drummer is probably the mighty Mats Liegnell. Or maybe Peter Björlin (RIP). The bassplayer could be Tore Persson.The clumsy out of tune Carlos Santana-style guitar is played by me. Overdubs 2022 also by myself: organ, electric piano, bass, percussion.

Let's play some latinrock (featuring Ebbo Pop)

Recording from the late 1980s, looped and manipulated. Tore Persson, tenor sax, Dan Backman, piano, Jan Steineck (probably) drums. Additional recordings from 2021-22: Tore Persson, tenor sax, Dan Backman, all other instruments.

Ballad for the oppressed (featuring Tore Persson)

Composed by Mats Liegnell and performed by the Jan Steineck Band (Mats Liegnell, guitar, Jan Steineck, Philicorda, Tore Persson, bass, Dan Backman, drums). But Tore and Jan are hardly heard. The original recorded in the collective house Justinalund in the summer of 1977. I have overdubbed bass and keyboards in 2022.

Justinalund, Södertälje, 1977 (part 2) (featuring Mats Liegnell)

Justinalund, Södertälje, 1977 (part 1) (featuring Mats Liegnell)

Basic track (guitar recorded at slow speed) from the eighties. Overdubbed bass, drums, keyboards, vocals 2021-23. Flute, saxophone, vocals by Tore Persson.

Jag kan inte, inte förstå, vem jag är (featuring Tore Persson)

Basic track recorded late eighties at Raj Hymans rehearsal space in Stockholm (Drottninggatan/Wallingatan). Dan Backman, piano, Tore Persson, tenor sax, Johan Fowelin (or Jan Steineck), drums (with brushsticks). Overdubs by Dan Backman ca 2019-2021: piano, drums, bells, bass, erhu, vibraphone.

Utan titel/No title

Recorded in 2023. Digital sounds + processed electric guitar (slide). Everything played by myself.

Untitled

Projekt Mellotron

All saints day

Janne minns en låt

The basic track for this tune is a improvisation on the Animoog (Iphone-app), with lots of overdubs. It starts with electro-acoustic freeform, continues with kraut and ends with ambient.  Features excerpts from an interview I did many years ago with an american musician (whose identity I will not reveal). This is the first recording I made with the Stratocaster-copy (probably japanese) I recently bought at a nearby thrift store. Recorded 2020 (april & may).

He died in a hang-gliding crash

I tried to get close to a Don & Moki Cherry-vibe with this modal instrumental tune. Featuring great flute-playing by Roland Keijser (1944-2019). Roland was recorded in 2013, everything else a few years earlier.

Don & Moki (featuring Roland Keijser)

A laidback jazzgroove with a looped livesampling as a starting point. Drums, bass, electric piano recorded during may/june 2020. Tore Perssons soulful tenor and flute were recorded in his carpenter’s shop on july 2020.

Lazy Daisy (featuring Tore Persson)

Variations on a theme by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Inspired by a flute solo by Tore Persson (edited and manipulated by me and actually played to another tune). Recorded in Södertälje & Stockholm in september 2020.

Papagenos dream (featuring Tore Persson)

A slow (very slow) raga in memory of Träd, Gräs & Stenar-drummer Thomas Mera Gartz. Jakob Sjöholm (also from Träd, Gräs & Stenar) plays the sensitive guitar that can be heard from 04:12 (recorded by himself in february 2021). Tore Perssons sublime flute not to be forgotten (recorded July 2020). Everything else, analog and digital, played and recorded by myself a little now and then 2020-2021.

Raga for Mera (featuring Jakob Sjöholm & Tore Persson)

Zeremonielle, rituelle und magische musik. LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES!!! DBR55V1:1975-2015 (featuring Roland Keijser, Jonas Kullhammar, Erik Rydvall, Torkel Rasmusson, Anders Hellqvist, Göran Petersson, Tore Persson and Raj Hymans) on Spotify & Tidal.

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