Anekdoten

Anekdoten answers among the great “imagine if” queries of art-rock: imagine if Ruler Crimson hadn’t split up within the mid-seventies? Anekdoten is usually an extraordinary sound-alike to Red-era Ruler Crimson, that is barely surprising provided Anekdoten’s roots like a tribute music group. Its instrumentation of viola, distorted Rickenbacker bass, extremely pitched drums, Frippy acoustic guitar, and mellotron all evoke this period of art-rock; the smoky British vocals only enhance the effect. All of the stranger, after that, that they ought to hail from Sweden within the 1990s. Anekdoten created in 1990 in the city of Borlänge, where bassist and vocalist Jan Erik Liljestrom and guitarist and keyboardist Nicklas Berg teamed with drummer Peter Nordin to try out such Crimson chestnuts as “Cirkus,” “Mars,” and “Starless.” Anna Sofi Dahlberg, a cellist having a history in folk and traditional music, joined the next season. In 1993 they self-released a debut record, Vemod; the very first pressing sold-out within per month and garnered advantageous review articles. The Crimson impact was apparent, but others also observed commonalities to Anglagard, Ruins, Il Balleto di Bronzo, and Magma. Making use of their use of electrical piano, mellotron, and melancholy lead vocals, though, the music group can also appear similar to late-model Radiohead. After touring European countries and america in 1994, the music group released another record, Nucleus, in 1995. Though it has already established some trouble achieving an American viewers, the grade of Nucleus provides just strengthened their reliability in progressive rock and roll circles, where they keep a little but devoted pursuing.