OBS. täxten (Sonet, 1969) with Finn Zetterholm
Världens minnsta LP (YTF, 1971, 33 rpm 7") with Finn Zetterholm
Folklår – våra allra fulaste visor (YTF, 1977) with Finn Zetterholm
Swedish vocals
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Bengt Sändh is a troubadour with a life story
much more interesting than his music. He grew up in orphanages and
foster homes where he was sexually assaulted by the carers before
eventually moving to his grandfather. He went to nine different
schools in three years, and was repeteadly held in custody and
reformatories. He ran away from one of them, as did he from military
service for which he spent a month in open prison. He reputedly stole
46 cars in ten days and had forty different jobs in the course of a
few years, including pall bearer, locksmith and mannequin maker. His
recording debut came in 1965 with an album together with fellow
troubadours Stefan Atterhall and Finn Zetterholm. Zetterholm
came to be Sändh's most frequent collaborator over the years, both
being controversial figures with a taste for songs and subjects on
and over the edge of the commonly morally acceptable. (He also
released a couple of albums with two other troubadours, Rune
Andersson and Jeja Sundström, plus two solo albums up to 1981 but they're not included here.)
Rudeness and drinking were two regular
characteristics. Always at odds with society and its norms as a
person and a performer, his albums were honestly meant manifestations
of his denial of acceptability rooted in a disappointment with social
rules. But in the end, they're all about shock value. Once the effect
wears off which it immediately does, they just sound pueril and empty
to an outsider. And with the music being bad too it's absolutely nothing to waste your time on.
After leaving the music scene, Sändh became a snuff producer (not as in snuff movies, but as in tobacco).
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