Parson Sound

Parson Audio was among the earliest & most radical experimental rock and roll rings of Sweden as well as the nucleus of the lineup that continued to be International Harvester, Harvester, and finally, Trad Gras Och Stenar. Using their expansive intake of designs as diverse as Western world Coastline psychedelic music as well as the Velvet Underground’s minimalism while still keeping a hint of their Swedish root base, Parson Sound made an unusual appear comparable to early Krautrock, though predating its starting by a calendar year. The group started in Stockholm in the springtime of 1967 soon after a trip to Sweden by minimalist composer Terry Riley to execute his traditional “In C,” and a new use Swedish school kids known as “Olson III.” Guitarist Bo Anders Persson, students on the Royal Academy of Music who acquired already attempted tape music, participated in the “In C” and was deeply motivated by Riley’s open-minded visual as opposed to the stifling atmosphere from the school. Persson began Parson Audio as a free of charge improvisational group with cello participant Arne Ericsson, also through the Academy; bassist Torbjörn Abelli, a music college student at the College or university of Stockholm; and radio journalist and poet Thomas Tidholm, who fulfilled Persson while focusing on articles. Thomas Mera Gartz, previously the drummer for the psychedelic defeat group Mecki Tag Men, soon became a member of the group and within the next yr, others arrived and proceeded to go in the loose collective, including Urban Yman, Bengt Berger, Bjorn Fredholm, and Kjell Westling. By summer season 1967, Parson Audio was carrying out before viewers in cafés, night clubs, and festivals plus they also gigged a few situations on Swedish radio in Sept and December of this calendar year. Parson’s recurring and hypnotic riffs had been quite very similar in sound towards the Velvet Underground in its even more improvised phase, so that it was just appropriate that in Feb 1968 these were element of an Andy Warhol display at Stockholm’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Ultimately, the group coalesced around Persson, Abelli, Tidholm, Ericsson, and Yman and by summer months 1968, that they had transformed their name to International Harvester to help expand refine their audio. This group would ultimately become Trad Gras Och Stenar, while many of Parson’s alum continued to another intensifying experimental group, Arbete Och Fritid.