Svensk Psych Aften

03/06/2025

Hey folks
The forest is buzzing with life. I love spring.
And a fine time for SPA.
A couple of weeks with fresh birchsap.
Great gig at Loppen, Christiania with White Hills & Gnod as part of their "Drop Out" tour. Back in the forest with a fresh Tour-shirt gifted from these fine humans.
Black Metal at Mayhem, Copenhagen
Back of sleeve for the next SPA release. Sounds mastered by Raikes Parade. Everything is at the pressingplant, so let's see when the job is done. More on the record later.
Woodstockeboda festival posters are now hanging from eastcoast to westcoast in Denmark.
2 days of music in a beautiful area outside Malmö in Sweden. Great artists are coming and the swedish valuta is quite low. What's not to like.
The last one is a fox skull, getting cleaned by little helpers.

Wish you all a fine evening.

19/05/2025

Hey folks
Left the forest for a weekend and went to Copenhagen to spread posters for Woodstockeboda festival next month and get me a good dose of some black & deathmetal.

Great bookings for this little 2 day festival on the outskirts of Malmö. Flowers Must Die (played at the 1st live Svensk Psych Aften with Hills in 2011) , Hanna (Hills, Laughing Eye, Träden ) & Jerry, Dungen , Homegrown Gbg , the powertrio 𝐋𝐘𝐃𝐒𝐘𝐍 , Cosmic Ritual (with people from the Bangladeth collective), etc ... and some new bands for me with great names like TEKSTI-TV 666 & Fullmånen från Helvetet

Extremely Rotten Death Metal Vol. 27 was a free afternoon-event at Byhaven with Cph bands Elitist, Endless Glory & Iron Division then biked to the venue Mayhem and continued the saturday with Broder, Gam, Hekserogn & Lesion - with my old friend Hampus (SPA / Kommun2 ) released the "Raw Howls" LP by Alucarda (1 of his earlier projects) in 2016

Photo 1: Jagtvej 69, there used to be a Youth House here
Photo 7: Lydsyn playing 1 of their first gigs in 2021 , with that years Woodstockeboda poster... full circle now
Photo 10: Hampus & I (the grey gubbe)

Now I am back in the forest, listening to birds & the wind in the trees.

Wish you all a fine week.

02/05/2025

Hey folks
Some photos of Ninna digging the forest chasing mice ... has absolutely nothing to do with the post.
Just wanted to share, that because of requests from you fine followers, "Versus" by the collective Bangladeth (released in 2023 only as LP (250copies)) is now on Spotify.
Check it & if you like what you hear and want it in your record collection, Shiny Beast / Clear Spot has some or send a message.
There are about 40 copies w. insert left // 200DKK + shipping.

11/11/2024

Hi Folks
The Bangladeth collective & SPA were invited for an interview by Klemen who runs the independent music magazine It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Sounds & pictures from "Versus", done by a member of the Bangladeth Collective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpdM9CvyxMA

Enjoy

The very mysterious Bangladeth is a collective—or, more accurately, a gathering of like-minded individuals brought together by a shared love for the underground. Think ‘Yeti’ by Amon Düül II, the raw, tribal energy of early Hawkwind, and that special, magic that happens when minds converge a...

03/11/2024

Agusa : " Ekstasis - Live in Rome " 2LP (SPA022)
20 handnumbered copies with A-B-C-D written on the white labels. All sleeves & labels are "decorated" by hand, so they are all a bit different.

My friend Tobbe released this live 2LP on his, by now defunct, label Kommun2 in 2018. While cleaning out his attic earlier this year, he found 20 white label testpresses in black sleeves and asked if SPA would be up for a re-release with a homemade sleeve if he gets half of the copies. Since I knew that most of the year I would be in the forest with my flock, while doing some needed repairing on "Smultris" - our cabin, I answered sure, why not.
So at last, finished the last copies during Samhain
I presume most of you know Agusa by now. They released their debut "Högtid" 10 years ago and are in my opinion the best Swedish psychedelic progband. Tobbe was one of the founders of Agusa, plays bass on Ekstasis and left the group in 2020. Well there is a good introduction to the band on their Discogs profile and most of their sounds can be heard on different streaming sites.
So if you like a cauldron full of mainly instrumental Swedish psych-prog along with one of Sweden`s best prog-guitarists, spiced with flute & organ and backed by a darn tight (tight as Lemmy`s denim shorts) rythm section, then check them out.

I have 10 numbered copies and 9 of them are for sale here. SOLD OUT! THANK YOU!!
# # # Since my copies went in a jiffy, Tobbe will sell a couple of his copies here. Same deal. SOLD OUT! Thank you for your kind words & support!! # # #

Number #1/10 has the original coloured-glued-doodled sleeve with a different center in the flower on the front. Since quite a few visitors during 2024 here at Smultris have been interested in the original, more on #1 later.

Wish you all a fine evening