Trad Gras Och Stenar bootlegs

One of the twins particularly enjoyed the music and danced to their version of Satisfaction - or at least he tried to. Maoist psych rock for children!

Check Mors Mors for a totally killer 26 minute Sommerlaten.

Also officially released.

basically everything this band has recorded is golden, imo. what i reallllly should spend more time with is the Parson Sound material. listened to the box in its entirety maybe 3-5 times after i bought it, having not heard the CD in years. time for another sesh.

yeah i haven't heard everything by a long shot, but everything i have heard is gold.

i really like their new album from a year or two ago! it's good!

i heard this band on ian's radio show and now i am listening to some seriously extended jams
this band rules

I like two pre-Trad acts better, but yeah they are still great.

what are those bands? i'm totally uninformed.

There are actually three: Parsson Sound, Harvester and International Harvester.

oh! i do know a bit of int'l harvester. will have to dig up some of those releases. on a big trad gras kick lately.

Both int'l albums are great. The cd's have bonus tracks that are worth your while. Not sure if lp copies are available, anyway.

Oh the second album is credited to just "Harvester," by the way.

Harvester "Hemat" is a record I have been searching for for some time now! One of my most played CDs.

Can someone help me find something that is not this when I search for International Harvester?

http://www.healthtrucks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/International-Harvester.jpg

http://primitive-future.blogspot.com/2010/05/international-harvester-sov-gott-rose.html

:)))
thankee!

it's an incredible record tbh, i think you'll love it.

yup it's truly something else

i will report back once i listen to it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-1AEYyw1k

Being is more than life, imo

http://thehornsoundingfaraway.blogspot.com/2010/05/2010-05-27-cca-glasgow-trad-gras-och.html

http://thehornsoundingfaraway.blogspot.com/2010/05/2010-04-28-cumberland-arms-newcastle.html

thanx amon.

tbh, that baby grandmothers record will never touch the harvester/trad gras stuff.

^real talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMvPXOdJ2w4

ok i love this! the combo of song/incidental noises/birds is so dreamy.

whoa"i mourn you" is so good -- sounds like it's underwater, but it kinda reminds me of listening to unpracticed marching bands for some reason
overall, A+ thank you!!

I am a huge Arbete och Fritid fan.
Swedish prog folk
^First (and maybe only?) ILM thread I started.

listened to international harvester tonight and it is totally hypnotic
love

I binged on them after this thread revive.
Gonna bring Parson Sound to the radio show tomorrow night.
Check that one out, for real. It's got a cool radio session medley of It's Only Love->I Mourn You->Sov Gott Rose Marie.
And two more hours of unbelievably great Swedish power drone psych wizardry.

That Swedish Prog Folk thread is totally not the only ILM thread I've started lol

I have no idea what took me so long, but I finally heard the Parson Sound s/t album. LOVE. I'll just repost what I said 7 mo ago:

ok i love this! the combo of song/incidental noises/birds is so dreamy.

― Fa la la (La Lechera), Thursday, July 7, 2011 1:51 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp6ldaGVjEY

best track on their final lp imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQgKjdwc9A

i am listening to this ^^ right now in order to drown out my coworker's conversation. it's working!

fuck, awful news. thomas mera gartz, the drummer from pärson sound and träd, gräs och stenar has died, just a couple of days ago. apparently he fell ill and was rushed to the hospital but died the following day, just like that. RIP.

Oh, that's sad. RIP.

I just found this and it's really good -- long instrumental solo in the middle-end, as I had hoped. anyone heard his solo stuff? I never have (until today). kinda reminds me of bill fay?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukobdt7J-jM

:(

aww damn. RIP. guy was a monster drummer.

Seconded

RIP.

RIP, time to play the Parson Sound box

shit i loved his drumming. he was the best part of seeing them live, very fluid.

his solo album was posted to mutant sounds apparently
i can't check to see if the link still works b/c i am at work, but http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/thomas-mera-gartz-sngerlp1976sweden.html

coooool, never heard that. link appears to still be functioning. i take it it's not available to buy?

I can't say, but I can now vouch for it being totally 100% worth checking out. Shamanjobbarens Sång may inspire some spontaneous folk dancing if played at the appropriate time during the course of an evening. As a whole, it's rather jubilant!

That's not to say that there aren't lots of contemplative moments too. There are, and freakouts too. It's v enjoyable!

never heard that, thanks

i believe this was thomas mera gartz youtube channel, its got a lot of videos by him and featuring his music
http://www.youtube.com/user/Meramorr

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcRS587VN8

thanks, this is what i expected
however, some of the recordings are barely above bootleg quality, and always were, so you get what you were gonna get there.

xpost Scott (but also applies to sound quality discussion) No doubt, and everybody should enjoy as much of it (and a lot of other things)as they can, for as long as they can. (PS: by "the originals," I meant purchases, not trying to do anything with the promo downloads)

this 3CD thing is packed with so many jams.

i know i already asked about the sound quality but

can someone who has heard these CDs tell me specifically if the drums are more audible?
i like to play along with this band sometimes and usually when i play with a recording, i can easily hear distinctions between what i'm playing and what is on the recording* but with their songs (and international harvester in partic) i can't. either i am the second coming of thomas 'mera' gartz (extremely unlikely) or the drums are barely audible

*first, i am not that good and second, sometimes i like to play a differently accented beat

i'm about 2/3 through and the drums are definitely audible. sound quality is better than i expected, really! seriously it is great -- definitely worth the $20.

yeah, the CDs sounded good to me. i'm glad they had the option. get a little bummed when there is no normal option and only some extra-deluxe thing.

ok thank you
sold!

vinyl box is sold out, i think. but the cd set and the individual albums still available.

CD set is better for driving purposes

and as noted, like $60 cheaper

a thousand boxed sets. that's impressive. they are already going for more than retail online.

yeah the CD box is amazing, sounds great, total jams, highly recommended

Well I didn't expect this but just announced:

http://forcedexposure.com/Catalog/trad-gras-och-stenar-tack-for-kaffet-thanks-for-the-coffee-cd/SUBL.119CD.html

The long-awaited new album from the legendary pioneers of transcendental psychedelic rock music and DIY culture in general. Tack För Kaffet (Thanks For The Coffee) is a tribute to the deceased band members and dearest friends Torbjörn Abelli and Thomas Mera Gartz. It becomes something of a farewell show for the old Träd, Gräs Och Stenar because all the old and new members, including founder Bo Anders, Torbjörn and Mera, and Reine Fiske (Dungen, The Amazing), are all contributing to this album. The sounds were captured on tape in their music workshop in the countryside and consists mainly of improvised moments where the sounds travels beyond time and space, something that has been TGS hallmark over the years. Perhaps there's a form of melancholy over some of the album, much depending on how cruelly and suddenly Mera and Torbjörn passed away, but also on a little lighter and crazier whim. Everything is recorded live so there are no euphemistic circumstances, rather everything is pared down, bared bone drones, sounds traveling in the magical improvised unknown with no makeup, just as life can be when the feeling has control. A manifestation of improvised timelessly organic music and free creation. Real life!

hell yeah

Wow, I'm quoted in the PR email (from my AMG review of their last album, from 2009).

guess what
i played three versions of "all along the watchtower" (dylan, hendrix, these guys) for my students and which one did they like the best? this one!! they said it sounded "like it was supposed to" (dirgey?) and one student wisely noted, after i told her what the band's name translated to, that it sounded "earthy"

even the 20 year old liked it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmrql7Zhg-c

the kids are alright

uh i just saw this in my "early warnings" email from my trusty local weekly and now i wonder who their new drummer will be?! are they really touring the USA?!

Träd Gräs och Stenar, Endless Boogie
When: Thu., Oct. 4, 9 p.m.

plying nyc too.

i fuckin caved and bought the international harvester box which is v spendy but also v awesome

is that box on CD yet?

current version of the band features Jakob Sjöholm, Reine Fiske (of Dungen fame), and Sigge Krantz on bass and Hanna Österberg on drums.

iiiiiiiiinteresting
i already put it on my calendar, who am i kidding

yeah i'm sure it'll be a blast, even if it's not exactly OG TGOS. and endless boogie for god's sake! which band will be able to ride one riff for the longest!!!???

will i get a seat at the show that is the question

So, saw Trad Gras (and Endless Boogie) Friday night, both opening for Ryley Walker, good night all around. To answer tylerw's question just above, Endless Boogie did two songs...but one was very long. So there's your answer!

Anyway, seeing Trad Gras was kinda like seeing faUSt earlier this summer -- it may be down to one last original member, but it was a way of capturing the spirit and keeping it going, as Reine Fiske said briefly towards the end of the set, and Sigge's presence is its own continuity at this point. Would have been great if I could have seen them in earlier years of the reunion but I was awfully glad to see this, the performances were strong and I was very much in the mood. Glad to have caught them.

have been listening to the new record traden a lot last month or so. it's excellent! "tamburan".... mmm. getting excited to see them later this week!

man, they were really great last night. everyone locked into this beautiful, fluid sound. loved it.

thought their current drummer hanna was particularly good. her heavy, lumbering playing driving things forward. perfectly complimented the rest of the band.

finally got the träden record months after seeing them with endless boogie, and just here to say how good it is.

i hadn't listened to the new träden until a couple weeks ago and uhhh yeah it is amazing!

I didn't know this band, but they are playing Marfa Myths in April and after listening to Träden I am v. excited to see them play live!

nice! you will enjoy -- and if you do there is a lot more where that came from!

Awww man I missed they had a new album???

it's really good!

I'll give it a listen this weekend!

The old speakers of Träd, Gräs och Stenar is up for sale on Swedish eBay. Hand built and just simply beautiful. A work of art! pic.twitter.com/2KJCZwVZLs

— Beta Max (@rhizome_in_) June 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SXOItN8zEw

The band's oral history book is out now in English, so I made it and them the subject of this week's Substack newsletter.

thank you for pointing this out; book looks great. hopefully my family also reads burning ambulance and are getting some good ideas for christmas presents

this revive has made me realize that I can buy the LP-only tracks from that huge live box digitally via Bandcamp, hell yeah

I think there are even another two tracks that are digital-only? https://tradgrasochstenar.bandcamp.com/album/tr-d-gr-s-och-stenar

Hoping my book gets here soon.

On another note, does anyone know anything about the label Arcangelo? Amazon shows listings for three upcoming releases from International Harvester on the label - Remains 1, Remains 2 and Remains 3. Looks like a CD reissue of the Remains box set, but weird that it's broken into three discs @ $32 each.

https://www.amazon.com/Remains-2-International-Harvester/dp/B0CL4L21FB

Ordered my book the other day, very happy for that!

Discogs says Arcangelo is a Japanese label specializing in prog reissues and archival stuff, so this could be a legit license (and could explain the price).

Thanks, just curious. I've been hoping that would get a CD reissue at some point.

Me, too, since there was never any digital version at all — the files I downloaded have (very mild) vinyl crackle because they come from someone ripping their (presumably brand-new at the time) LPs.

Recorded over their two day residency, 9.9.16 spans the pastoral, the brooding, and the free-form progg moments of Trad Gras in one oozing zip folder. Their seemingly endless, bucolic bass lines and humble DIY approach create an ever expanding atmosphere of good will - these are surely the nicest guys in rock? The opening 'track' is a 25 minute wigged out version of Harvester's 'När Lingonen Mognar', and 'Stina' is a never before recorded folk-rock track written by the band's close friend Mats G Bengtsson. Spread the word my friends.

Reine Fiske / guitar, vocals
Sigge Krantz / bass, vocals
Tom Watts / drums
Jakob Sjöholm / guitar, vocal

Tracklisting:

1. När Lingonen Mognar - 24:18
2. Kaffe med Tårta - 12:52
3. Down in the Basement - 11:07
4. Stina - 7:12
5. Sommarlåten - 13:54
6. Silverffloden - 11:39

Recorded live at Cafe OTO on the 9th and 10th of September, 2016 by Simon Holliday and Shaun Crook.

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/trad-gras-och-stenar-9916/