Kebnekajse

Lacking the enduring fame as well as the cult status of their contemporaries Träd, Gräs & Stenar, the mainly instrumental group Kebnekaise was just as important in creating Swedish folk-rock. In the Swedish intensifying motion they stood someplace in the centre, between your politically as well as the musically intensifying branches, where in fact the initial generally performed message-based music and the next had more in keeping with international intensifying rock and roll scene. The music group did not have a apparent politics stand, but getting much less experimental than Träd, Gräs & Stenar and keeping further from fusion than Samla Mammas Manna, they reached a broad audience. By the end from the ’70s, Kebnekaise began to play symphonic rock and roll, and quickly dropped a lot of their recognition. The driving pressure in Kebnekaise was guitarist Kenny Håkansson. In the ’60s, he and drummer Pelle Ekman performed collectively in T-Bones and in a music group that later transformed its name to Baby Grand Mom. In 1969, Håkansson, Ekman, and bassist Bengt Linnarsson had been recruited as the brand new support for Hammond participant Mecki Mark, getting his Mecki Tag Males. In 1971, after a chaotic U.S. tour as well as Sly as well as the Family members Stone, Mark remaining and guitarist Rolf Scherrer was recruited. The brand new music group required the name Kebnekaise following the highest hill in Sweden, and began like a primarily instrumental rock-band in the custom of Hendrix and Cream, liberating the debut recording Resa Mot Okayänt Mål in 1971. For the next recording they recruited six fresh music artists: guitarists Glenngård and Böckler, percussionist Hassan, harmonica participant Lindström, and drummer Netzler. Quickly bassist Göwent Lagerberg, who experienced used Tages in the ’60s, also became a member of the group. If the 1st album have been affected by blues-rock, the harmonies experienced certainly lacked some blues. On the next, self-titled recording, Kebnekaise adopted this less-bluesy route into folk-rock, but extremely Scandinavian folk-rock: melodic and sentimental, mainly played in small keys. And even though Kebnekaise used a variety of styles, this is the style that could make them well-known. In between lengthy travels, the group released their third record, Kebnekaise III, displaying more jazz affects than previous albums but also even more African influences, presented by percussionist Bah, an immigrant from Guinea-Bissau. The complete fourth record was focused on African music, but at its discharge, half of the group acquired still left, leaving Kebnekaise being a five-man music group. The next years this disintegration continuing, both crew-wise and musically. Elefanten premiered in 1977, but regardless of the name directing toward Africa, the record was generally a jazz-rock affair, with apparent fusion tendencies. As well as the folk music, both African and Swedish, was nearly gone. Following this, Håkansson still left the music group to start out a solo profession, and with him a lot of the imagination seemed to possess still left as well. As well as drummer Pelle Holm and key pad participant Per Lejring, the rest of the three associates released Vi Drar Vidare in 1978, a symphonic rock and roll album that didn’t make much influence. The members began to look for various other jobs plus some period around that 12 months, Kebnekaise ceased to can be found. Glenngård released several single albums and worked well like a program musician, with ABBA, for instance. Bah created the music group the Happy Kids, also including Netzler, but quickly relocated to Finland.