Swedish vocals
International relevance: *
International relevance: *
The first Knutna Nävar album is split with Göteborgs BrechtEnsemble and an unspecified overenthusiastic marching band.
The hysterical sloganeering is disturbing. Mao, Stalin or Hitler – blind extremist
anthems are equally and deeply unpleasant no matter if they come from the left or the right. At best they're valuable for academic studies of a hopefully long gone past.
”Internationalen och andra
revolutionära arbetarsånger” is different in style to that of Knutna
Nävar's next album, the more rocking ”De svarta listornas folk”.
This has more in common with Freedom Singers. No wonder, as Knutna
Nävar were a Freedom Singers splinter group. Only ”Lär av
historien”, an awkward translation of Creedence Clearwater Revival's ”Proud
Mary” that I refuse to believe was ever authorized by John Fogerty,
points to what was to come a couple of years later.
Two Knutna Nävar 45's followed in
1972, ”Dom ljuger” and the comparatively decent double
7” ”Vi slåss för vår framtid” with a version of Freedom
Singers' best song ”Richard Dollarhjärta”. They have one track on communist party KPML(r)'s 10th anniversary double cassette release ”10 års kultur i partiets tjänst”
Full album playlist
from Vi slåss för vår framtid
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