Swedish prog influenced by Swedish ballad tradditi

Hi Chris - hope you entered 2017 in style like myself

I feel the whole vise tradition is heavily echoed, though most often, through the wholly unique folk instrumentation of certain bands. Bands like Kebnekaise (first 4 albums in particular), Archimedes Badkar (especially their second album), Arbete & Fritid, Ragnarök (debut), Nya Ljudbolaget, Fläsket Brinner, Älgarnas Trädgård - hell even Björn J:Son Lindh flirted around with this.
The vise tradition stems from 'folkemusik' and the abovementioned artists all experimented with it in one way or another- most of them developing this psychedelic, folky, light jazzy almost Krautrocking expression.
For starters I'd go with Kebnekaise, Nya Ljudbolaget (Brudevals) and Fläsket Brinner's second release 'Fläsket'.

i feel Rituals also hs certain elements, and Opeth,Opeth should make a cover of Balladen om Fredrick Åkare

Edited by Icarium - January 16 2017 at 11:08

Well, all of the thread is written in english except for the names of the songs

Edited by Dellinger - January 16 2017 at 21:04

That's why I went with a joke, half sarcastic (or whatever) reply, otherwise I would have gone mad about how the important thing is the music, and how I find it interesting to check music in other languages, and the site is an english speaking one for the discussions, but there's nothing saying that we can't discuss about music in other languages, etc. But I didn't.