International Harvester - Sov-Gott Rose Marie: Classic or Dud? (And damn your black heart if you think it's a dud!)

:( I love these bands. The International Harvester record is maybe the best of the lot.

rip :(

RIP massive-sounding dude

Shit. Will pay tribute on the air this week. Huge fan of all this stuff.
Fuck.
Well, at least it fits into my theme (Heavy psych jams to combat back to school blues).

I'm listening to Parson Sound right now, and it is SOOOOOOOOOOOO good!

been playing "homeless cats" by träd, gräs och stenar a lot this week. for a bunch of old guys it's really something, super lazy bardo pond-ish fuzziness. and the production is great too.

holy shit @ "Skördetider", I just picked up a cheap reissue CD and god DAMN that is like seeing mountains slowly dancing

You hear Parson Sound yet, sleeve?

yeah, I have that box, love it

Yeah it is amazing.

Hooooly heck

https://forcedexposure.com/Catalog/international-harvester-remains-5lp-box/SRSBX.3500LP.html

Silence present a five-LP box set featuring International Harvester titled Remains. The box contains their debut album from 1968 Sov Gott Rose-Marie and Hemåt from 1969, along with three full bonus albums with live material dating from 1967-1969. It also includes a poster, lots of pictures, and a long interview with member Thomas Tidholm made by Mats Eriksson Dunér. 180 gram black vinyl; Edition of 1000.

International Harvester emanated from Pärson Sound and later became Träd, Gräs och Stenar ("Trees, Grass and Stones"). Member Thomas Tidholm on the recordings: "We talked about making the music stop and stand perfectly still. And that did happen sometimes. We never let go of the drone. We hardly made any key changes and never changed chords." Thomas Tidholm and Anders Lind, the engineer for the early albums, have listened to two cases full of live recordings from 1967 to 1969. After editing them, Anders has restored and mastered the live material from the old cassette tapes and for the two original albums -- original analog master tapes have been used. Digitally transferred at 96 khz/24 bits and gently remastered by Anders Lind.

:D

Awwww man my heart and my wallet

holding out for the CD version to avoid the inevitable track-splitting across sides of the vinyl

^^yeah man, never let go of the drone!

Saw Träd, Gräs och Stenar last night and despite them being deeply exhausted it was a great set. Wished venue had a mess of bean bags and everyone could flop on the floor though.

So Amazon has listed new CD versions of Remains 1, Remains 2, Remains 3 and Sov-Gott Marie from Arcangelo, which appears to be a legit Japanese reissue label, for many months and the release date kept getting pushed back. According to Amazon they were finally released February 9th, but they all popped up that day as immediately wither "currently unavailable" or only available through second-hand sellers for $50-$60 a pop (double the already high list price of $31.99 each). The only other place I can even find these listed is pre-orders through Bullmoose, but that release date keeps getting pushed back as well and now sits at February 16th.

Anyway, has anyone heard anything about these at all or where to find them? Really would love to pick up CDs of this stuff for a decent price, but I'm not sure these even actually exist.

There's a review of an oral history book on the current Wire that I need to look further into. I don't think they mention a language it's in. Would think it should be Swedish but a lot of people there are Anglophone anyway.
I don't remember reading a translation of an oral history. Would wonder how successful any translation could be. Being way more than one voice etc.

An English translation is available -- a few of us picked it up pre-Christmas, we talked about it on the Trad Gras thread.

Yeah, I wrote about the book at the end of November. It's really cool.