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| ABBA - The Collection
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(Polar/Insigni 44001-00970 Swe-99 300:-)
Superb mail-order only box set containing 42-tracks on 3 compilation CD's entitled 'Romance' 'Classic' and 'Dance'; plus a unique 60-minute video produced only for this box set featuring clips from 'Abba - TheMovie', 'Abba - In Concert and a rare interview with Björn Ulveaus.
Also includes a 24-page picture booklet. Housed in an 11" x 9" x 1½" picture box. The CD's has a few minor marks - the box shows some slight shelfwear.
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| Alinge & Forssell - Hemma Hos, Box 1
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(Diesel C-43 Swe-09 300:-)
Hemma Hos var ett radioprogram som sändes åren 1971-76 i den gamla Mantovaniparfymerade P3-kanalen. Varje program var en timme långt och cirka hälften bestod av långa, ordrika och påträngande sketcher, där Kjell Alinge och Janne Forssell stod för manus och påhitt och samtliga röster, varav många var orimliga dialekt- och korkimitationer.
På 70-talet släpptes två LP med sketcher ur programmen, och 1994 gavs dessa ut på CD tillsammans med en tredje CD med fler inslag. Alla dessa skivor är utgågna sedan flera år. I den nya boxen finns de tre Hemma Hos-skivorna, plus två CD med outgivna sketcher (totalt 54 stycken). Dessutom två CD med radiopjäserna ”Nä, så här är det väl ändå inte” (1975) och ”Himmel och helvete) 1977. Total speltid 8 timmar och 20 minuter! Och en 72-sidig bok med nya texter av Kjell Alinge och Johan Croneman, originalmanus i faksimil, opublicerade bilder mm.
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| Anekdoten - Waking the Dead
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(Arcángelo ARC-1094 Jap-05 275:-)
Anekdoten answers one of the great "what if" questions of art-rock: what if King Crimson hadn't broken up in the mid-seventies? Anekdoten is a remarkable sound-alike to Red-era King Crimson, which is hardly surprising given Anekdoten's roots as a tribute band. Its instrumentation of viola, distorted Rickenbacker bass, highly pitched drums, Frippy guitar, and mellotron all evoke this era of art-rock; the smoky English vocals only add to the effect. The performances on this disc recorded before what sounds like a smallish but very enthusiastic audience are, in a word, thunderous, even more dynamic than their studio counterparts. The rhythm section really cuts through, and the bass sound is monolithic. And of course, there are great slabs of mellotron to be heard here.
Vinyl Replica Paper Sleeve.
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| Dahlgren, Eva - En Blekt Blondins Ballader
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(Sony/BMG 86971-235832 EU-07 175:-)
"En blekt blondins ballader" is a compilation album by Eva Dahlgren which contains her ballad hit songs between 1980-2005; this copy is signed on the front by Eva!
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| Fredriksson, Marie - Ber bara En Gång
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(EMI 8652882 Swe-97 250:-)
Marie Fredriksson is best known for forming one half of the pop duo Roxette, which she created together with Per Gessle in 1986. She and Per Gessle achieved international success from the late 1980s to the early 1990s with a total of six top 10 US hit songs such as "It Must Have Been Love", "Listen to Your Heart", "The Look", "Joyride" and "Dangerous".
Swedish 2-track single; b/w "Aldrig tillbaka mer".
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| Handgjort - Handgjort
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(Silence SRCD-3618 Swe-10 300:-)
This is the rarest Silence album by far, released in separately handmade cover designs. The music smells of incense, as this is an exotic fusion of Indian and Western music with sitar, tablas, flute, sarod, tamboura and acoustic guitar. This mainly instrumental music has an open air, rural feel, which was ideally suitable for the hippie festivals of the time.
Reissue in a hand-painted and hand-numbered cover(#3/96/250). All covers are different, 1000 copies have been made.
Issue 1 - 75 painted by the band members.
Issue 2 - 234 made by graduating students at the Kyrkerud Esthetical High School in Årjäng, Värmland.
Issue 3 - 250 made by "Friends of Silence".
Issue 4 - 131 made by a workshop at the same school as above.
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| Lonely Boys - Flowers on the Moon
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(Parlophone 8652272 Swe-96 225:-)
#The Lonely Boys" is a fiction book by Swedish author Mats Olsson about a young rhythm'n'pop band from the south of Sweden in 1965.
Per Gessle (of Roxette fame) was asked by Mats Olsson to write a soundtrack to follow the book, and so the band "The Lonely Boys" came into existence. The band went to great lengths to make the sound authentic 1960s; from the lyrical content to the authentic instruments and amplifiers used in the recording process.
2-track single in paper sleeve; b/w "Lonely Boys".
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| Samla Mammas Manna - same
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(EMI Toshiba TOCP-70739 Jap-09 225:-)
This curiously named group came together in keeping with the do-it-yourself spirit prevailing in Sweden at the beginning of the seventies.
Samla Mammas Manna (1971) was an album full of silly voices, circus music, lunacy and jazzy progressive rock driven by Hollmer's electric piano and organ. From the start, their highly original music (using Zappa's playful style but their own ideas) gained them a cult following, both in Sweden and (eventually) abroad. Several tracks were home recordings made in Hollmer's chicken-house in 1970 (the rear cover says: "printed in 1971").
Vinyl Replica Paper Sleeve with 4 Bonus Tracks
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| Soilwork - Living Infinite
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(Nuclear Blast 27361-29955 EU-14 225:-)
When a band loses one of its longtime songwriters, it seems almost expected that the band would play it a little safe, testing out the waters before diving in. Not looking to take the path of least resistance, Soilwork, who once again find themselves without the services of guitarist and songwriter Peter Wichers, have done just the opposite. Rather than attempting to steady the ship with a quick album of throwaway tracks, the Swedish band has returned with The Living Infinite, a sprawling double album that finds Soilwork returning to a more distinctly Scandinavian sound in the wake of their more metalcore-influenced 2010 album, The Panic Broadcast. While The Living Infinite is certainly a whole lot of record, it's filled with enough vigor and creativity that it doesn't feel as though it's dragging along, and though fans might be disappointed to see Wichers leave the band yet again, it's clear that Soilwork seem to be getting along just fine without him.
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| Thörnqvist, Owe - En Box Owe
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(Sonet/Pandorec CDBOX-812 Swe-90 300:-)
Karl-Gustav Owe Thörnqvist debuterade som artist 1953 med "Rumba i Engelska parken" och har varit aktiv inom den svenska musikbranschen i snart sextio år. På 1950-talet var han en av dem som först lanserade rocken i Sverige. Låten "Diverse julboogie", en form av rhythm & blues, utkom 1955, året innan artister som Elvis Presley och Bill Haley slog igenom i USA. Thörnqvists låt "Rotmosrock" (1956) var den första skriven av en svensk artist som använde sig av ordet "rock" i en låttitel.
Owe Thörnqvists stil har jämförts med Povel Ramels, med hänvisningar till såväl ordlekar som hans breda musikaliska anslag och långa revykarriär; Ramel har själv hävdat att han och Thörnqvist var de första att introducera calypso i Sverige.
"En Box Owe" innehåller 12CD med Owe's samlade skivproduktion 1955-1987 i en begränsad, numrerad (#02423) och signerad upplaga.
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| Vreeswijk, Cornelis - Mäster Cees Memoarer
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(Metronome 4509-91927 EU-93 500:-)
MÄSTER CEES MEMOARER är en 5-CD-box innehållande 139 sånger av Cornelis Vreeswijk från åren 1964-1987.
Detta är originalutgåvan i en 30 x 30 cm box med bok.
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