Transubstans Rec.
Radiomöbel : Gudang Garam (S,1978)****'
Musikgruppen Radiomöbel started in 1973 as a quartet. Evolved to a quintet they released their first album "Tramsebox" in 1975. At the time of 1979 as a sextet the band released this second album in a small quantity. This is a first time reissue.
Hearing this album I think it’s strange how such a great album took so many years for a reissue. Styllistically they are far more interesting than a band like i.e. Autumn Breeze, and they are also more varied than the already great Träd Gras och Stenar.
By the time of 1979 the Swedish scene still was interesting for psychedelic music, and the band’s psychedelic styles had evolved ever since.
The first track, the titletrack, might be the shortest track in history, counting in at 1 second !
At the same time the full album comes over like one long track in different sections and with an incredibly number of changes in directions, arrangements, with some varity of stylistic influences while the music itself keeps a very steady and strong continuous flow.
There are many passages, like on “Höstsang” which are definitely 70’s Floydian (ethereal keyboards, electric guitar and drumming), partly Bo Hansson-like.
The female singer who appears here and there has a more folk flavoured voice between Dagmar Krause and a soprano acid folk voice. With her contribution there are small elements of folkrock psychedelia adapted as well.
There is also a small part of rock’n roll improvisation, of cosmic and landscape driven keyboards, some small experiment with fastened reverb recording and experimenting sounds, some Yes-like conflicting rhythms with the guitars and keyboards, a cosmic vocal passage, some moog improvisations, and various rhythmic and thematical changes which make the music, change in direction constantly in a very natural and inspired way.
In other words...a masterpiece !
PS. The first album, ‘Trämsebox’ will be re-released for the first time by the same label later this year, together with an album full of unreleased material.
-The label has also a great on line shop of World psychedelia called recordheaven.-
Where they say : “Radiomöbel is sometimes filed under the genre TRÄSKOSYMF (wooden shoe symphonic). Other scandinavian bands in that field is AKASHA, MR. BROWN, and AUTUMN BREEZE.”
