Rut Hermansson / Eva Blomqvist / Sabina Kristensen / Monika Lundin / Frankie Armstrong / Lena Ekman / Jan Hammarlund / Marie Selander / Lena Granhagen / Monica Törnell / Andra Bullar / Lava / Ulla Bendrik-Johansson / Turid / Margareta Söderberg / Monica Törnell / Cyndee Peters / Röda Bönor
International relevance: **
Kvinnokulturfestivalen (Festival of Women Culture) was a three day event held in Stockholm in late October 1977 with many of the usual suspects coming together. This album is a selection of songs recorded at the festival and features Marie Selander, Turid, Lena Granhagen, Andra Bullar, Margareta Söderberg and Röda Bönor to name a few. Most of it is acoustic and most of it sounds exactly as expected, meaning political folk with a righteous message.
A couple of tracks have electric
backing and those selections are also the best. Marie Selander's
”Carcara” even manages to work up a physical groove very rarely
heard on political albums. Lava, a seemingly temporary grouping
assembled specifically for the festival, is Lena Ekman backed by the
likes of Sigge Krantz (Archimedes Badkar, Stockholm Norra, Torkel Rasmusson, Lokomotiv Konkret et al) and Ola Backström (Stockholm
Norra, Torkel Rasmussion, Dag Vag). Their ”Svartsjuk” starts out
a bit trying and uncertain but grows organically as it goes on. Ola
Backström's slide guitar isn't exactly Elmore James – more of a
slurry Robbie Krieger – but it works to good effect and pushes the
song almost to the six minute limit. And Monica Törnell is far better here than on any of her own albums from around this time.
The performers are perhaps more
interesting than the performances, but as said above, the album isn't
entirely without musical merits. It's not a great album by any means, but remains one of the better feminist albums from the period, for what it's
worth.
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