Darkxtar

Primarily a project of keyboardist/programmer Soren Bengtsson and bassist/vocalist “Captain” Juha Nurmenniemi, Darxtar has continued to evolve because the forced departure of Nurmenniemi in 1994. Their 2001 recording, Tombola, introduced a fresh lineup offering guitarist/vocalist Bjorn Jacobson and violinist Fredric Sundqvist. Achieving in a utilized record shop in Stockholm in 1989, Bengtsson and Nurmenniemi collaborated on the first recording through the summer season of 1990. Nurmenniemi, who got begun playing acoustic guitar in 1978, have been concentrating on computerized keyboards for quite some time before time for your guitar in Oct 1988. Planning for a tribute recording to commemorate the tracks of the past due Hawkwind vocalist/songwriter, Robert Calvert, Bengtsson and Nurmenniemi documented a cassette in Bengtsson’s house studio. Two paths were consequently released within the multi-artist compilation Daydreams & Nightmares. Asked to record a full-length recording, Bengtsson and Nurmenniemi started focus on Darxtar’s self-titled debut recording. By enough time that the record premiered on Acidity Tapes in Dec 1991, and reissued by SPM GLOBALLY, the two music artists had begun focus on a follow-up, Darker. Although turned down by SPM GLOBALLY to be “as well experimental,” Swedish label Garageland decided to discharge it in 1993. Documenting their third record, Daybreak, being a music group, Darxtar performed their first concerts in past due 1994. As their distinctions became increasingly more pronounced throughout a Western european tour, Bengtsson and Nurmenniemi begun to argue. Following tour, Nurmenniemi was asked to keep the group. Within a past due-’80s interview, Bengtsson recalled, “Nurmenniemi was sacked. He’s a hard character and I simply couldn’t take any more of him.” Carrying on to try out without Nurmenniemi, Darxtar experienced its initial break if they were asked to accompany Hawkwind vocalist Nik Turner on single travels in 1995 and 1998.