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I don't have many rules for this blog, but one unwritten law is to include all artists mentioned in Tobias Peterson's ”The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music”. That includes the 100 artists mentioned as ”suggested further listening”. Some inclusions in the book, especially among the extra 100, are puzzling. Sometimes I wonder what Peterson's selection criteria was.
That certainly goes for Åke Sandin.
True he was a solitary original, recording his weird songs with
idiosyncratic vocals and strange lyrics and releasing them himself.
But the musical style was a remnant from the popular songs of the
second world war and after. His songs, including those from his sole album
”Rariteter i kokäkta konvolut” with an album cover made of
cloth and released in 1968, fit the Incredibly Strange Music tag. I can appreciate such myself as it's often so weird and off that you sort of have to learn to listen anew. And yes, I'm somehow fascinated by Sandin, but progg it is not. Not even with my otherwise generous definition of progg. So this post is merely to fulfill my own blog law.
Subliminal Sounds released "Förlorad i toner" in 2002 which collects everything Sandin recorded between 1965 and 1970.
Full album playlist
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