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MP3 Trettioariga Kriget - Glorious War
8 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock, ROCK: Psychedelic
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Trettioåriga Kriget (Thirty Years War) was formed in 1970 in Saltsjöbaden, a seaside resort southeast of Stockholm. They were at the time all around seventeen and still in high school. The school''s main hall was in the beginning used as the rehearsal room. This first lineup of the band was a six piece with two drummers! It included Stefan Fredin- bass guitar, vocals, Pocke Öhrström- guitar, vocals, Dag Lundquist- drums, Olle Thörnvall- harmonica, guitar, Dag Kronlund- piano and Johan Gullberg- drums. 1971 Pocke, Johan and Dag K. left and Robert joined on vocals and guitar. 1972 Olle quit playing harmonica to concentrate on the lyrics, leaving the band to concist only of Stefan, Dag and Robert. They decided they needed a good guitar player and started to audition some guitarists. Through these auditions they found Christer who joined the band in summer 1972. The band rehearsed intensively for a year and a half and developed a style of their own quite unlike the main trend in Swedish rock during the Seventies.
Early 1974 they got a record deal. Also at that time they got a new rehearsal room in Saltsjöbaden. An old underground disco which they called "Grunden". There they would remain for a long time. An album was recorded that summer and released in august 1974. The album was named only "TRETTIOÅRIGA KRIGET". The musical talent and originality of the group was duly recognized in the reviews. The album was an instant classic and is often considered as the first Swedsih heavy rock album. They also now started to tour extensively in Sweden and also did several live performances on national Swedish radio.
The second album "KRIGSSÅNG" was recorded in the summer of 1975 though it was not released until early 1976 . It is commonly regarded as Trettioåriga Krigets "masterpiece". The second side is totally devoted to the long suite "Krigssång 2". These first 2 albums have had a tremendous influence on later Swedish progressive and metal bands. The band continued touring and gigging in -75 and -76 . In October -76 they left for an extensive English tour from Croydon in London to Cardiff in Wales to Sunderland near the Scottish border. They went down very well and the English music magazine "Melody Maker" chose them as one of the most promising bands for ''77, speaking enthusiastically of their "intense gripping songs" and saying that "the power of the music is tremendous"!!! Back home again however they got the boot from their Swedish label, who apparently hadn´t heard any news from abroad.
Trettioåriga Kriget then chose to sign for a small Swedish independet label called Mistlur. The first album on this new label was called "HEJ PÅ ER".It was recorded in summer 1978 in "Grunden", the rehearsal room, with mobile recording facilities. By this time Mats, had joined on keyboards and saxophone too. The album was very well received and was to that date their best selling album. The album was seeing the band moving to a more simple song format and is seen as the last album in a trilogy starting with the first album. The band continued to tour extensively during this time around Scandinavia.
In the summer of 1979 the band recorded "MOT ALLA ODDS" also at "Grunden". It is largely regarded the bands least successful album though it has its moments, i.e. the title song. This was the last album with Robert who left in autumn 1979 leaving the vocals to Stefan.
In 1980 the band played the Roskilde festival in Denmark and continued the extensive touring. And they also recorded their fifth album at "Grunden" called only "KRIGET".
The story then jumps to 1992 when Stefan, Robert and Dag played an accoustic set at a release party for the CD-release of "Krigssång". And then in 1996 to coincide with the release of their mostly live album "WARMEMORIES", the band decided to do two reunion concerts in Stockholm.
In 2002 Stefan, Dag, Chris and Olle decided to start rehearsing to try out new material. These rehearsals were such a success that the band decided to enter the studio once more and record a new album. In the studio, Robert and Mats also joined. The album was named "ELDEN AV ÅR" (Fire of Years) and was released January 2004. It got such very good reception and reviews. Many describing the album as the bands best and even one of the best reunion albums ever released. Live shows also followed in 2004 with the classic lineup of Stefan Fredin, Dag Lundquist, Christer Kerberg, Robert Zima and Mats Lindberg. In September 2004 the band even made their US debut playing the Progday Festival in North Carolina and also for the first time in over 30 years did a show in their home village of Saltsjöbaden.
Later that autumn their first two albums, "Trettioåriga Kriget" and "Krigssång" were re-released with bonus tracks. In March 2005 the bands third album, "Hej på er" (Hallo everybody) was also re-released with bonustracks.
In June 2005 they played Sweden''s biggest rock festival, Sweden Rock, and in March 2006 they played the Baja Prog Festival in Mexico.
In August 2007 their 8th studio album, "I början och slutet"(In the beginning and the end), was released to overwhelming reviews. The band saw it like a natural follow up to "Elden av år", with a more coherent atmosphere, and unlike "Elden" this album was written and recorded in a shorter space of time. Autumn 2007 also saw the band play in both France and Brazil for the first time as well as some Swedish shows to promote the album
Spring 2008 will see the band play in Spain for the first time as well as shows in Norway, Sweden and France. Work will also start on their first DVD.
Review from https://www.tradebit.com:
I first discovered legendary Swedish proggers Trettioåriga Kriget (Thirty Years War) via a series of weekly, late-night English language broadcasts from Radio Sweden in the mid 1970’s. I remember being intrigued by their exotic twist on my beloved Prog rock but I was too young at that time to catch one of their British concerts, and their original albums remained beyond my grasp. Long after all hope of exploring this music further had been relinquished, the CD reissue boom of the 1990''s meant that I finally managed to obtain a copy of their second CD Krissang (War Song). It proved to be a worthwhile addition to the collection, presenting a highly individual, yet typically Scandinavian Prog rock in a complex, guitar driven vein.
Though the group soldiered on for many years, they never broke free from cult status, but they ultimately proved to be highly influential with the new breed of Scandinavian progressive groups of the 1990''s. Both Landberk and Anglagard (to name but two) were clearly, and openly, influenced by them.
The group reformed in the 1990''s to promote a CD War Memories featuring unreleased live material but even that did not prepare me for these two highly welcome releases.
Glorious War is a completely unreleased album recorded in 1970-1971, by an earlier, pre-debut line-up. Unlike many archival releases, this is not scraps and outtakes, it definitely was recorded with an album release in mind, and though the sound is necessarily primitive by today’s standards, the tapes have been cleaned up nicely, making this very listenable.
Of the eight tracks, four are brief free-form guitar solos (with some studio tinkering), intended to bookend the two sides of the proposed vinyl album. As such they are a little superfluous on this CD release. They are worth hearing once and can always be programmed out on subsequent listens. The real meat of the album is found in the remaining four tracks.
Amassilations is a harmonica-driven, blues wailing, proto-prog cross between the doomy sound of early Black Sabbath and the spacey drones of Pink Floyd circa Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. The real highlight is Konserten, an 18-minute piano concerto, featuring the precocious talents of 16-year-old Dag Kronlund. Unlike many of their contempories, who tried with varying degrees of success, to marry the rock group sound with an orchestra, Trettioåriga Kriget opt for the more unusual option of transplanting the concert piano into an otherwise entirely rock group setting. This track has a timeless quality to it, which makes it a satisfying listen even after all these years. I would recommend buying the CD just for this track alone.
The remaining tracks, Thirty Years War and From Your Streets, whilst essentially pretty good tracks, and both having their moments of brilliance, are slightly let down by (as with many recordings from that era) a tendency to ramble, bordering on the self-indulgent. This of course was par for the course back in those days, but may not be so easily tolerated today. As with their other albums, excellent guitar playing is a strong feature throughout, though the overall feel is quite different to that encountered on their other albums.. T K was never a group to rest on its laurels.
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