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Topic: Your fave Swedish Prog Rock albums?Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your fave Swedish Prog Rock albums?
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 03:32
Inspired by Nick's Danish thread, here's a Swedish one for albums, and my fave are (chronologically):
Bo Hansson (S) - Sagan om Ringen (1970)
Älgarnas Trädgård (S) - ”Framtiden är ett svävande skepp...(1972)
Made In Sweden (S) - "Where Do We Begin"(1976)
Änglagård (S) - Hybris(1992)
Landberk (S) - Rigtigt Äkta(1992)
Anekdoten (S) - Vemod(1993)
Anekdoten - From Within (1999)
Opeth (S) - Damnation (2003)
not Prog/Prog?/not on PA:
Triangulus - Triangulus and Bjorn J.Son Lindh(1985)
Hedningarna (S) - Karelia Visa(1999)
Goat (S) - Commune(2014)
I hope you'll enjoy it!
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Replies: Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:02
From Sweden they are coming..... a whole smorgasbord of Swedish artists, courtesy of the Prog Line channel.
1979: COSTE APETREA, STEFAN NILSSON & JUKKA TOLONEN - Vanspel (Jazz-Rock • Sweden) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1vs6dxZvY8" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1vs6dxZvY8
1977: DICE - The Four Riders of the Apocalypse (Symphonic Prog • Sweden) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cipMqRHxXSs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cipMqRHxXSs
1999: INDISCIPLINED LUCY - About the Black Eyed Girl (Progressive Rock • Sweden) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn4PXD2E0c0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn4PXD2E0c0
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:02
Here's twenty favorite swedish progalbums & more:
Ragnarök - Ragnarök
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
Oriental Wind - St
Björn J:son Lindh - Ramadan (Cous Cous is equally great)
Bo Hansson - Ur Trollkarlens Hatt (but all his four 1970's albums are wonderful)
Turid - Bilder
Merit Hemmingson - Huvva! (Trollskog is almost as great)
Kvartetten Som Sprängde - Kattvals Nya Ljudbolaget - Nya Ljudbolaget
Samla Mammas Manna - Samla Mammas Manna (like their two next too, but this is more to my taste)
Dungen - 4 (but they're always pretty great)
Älgarnas Trädgård - Delayed (Framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i fortiden - also very good) Arbete och Fritid - Arbete & Fritids Andra LP (love their debut too) Archimedes Badkar - Tre (love their three first)
Pugh Rogefeldt - Pughish (Ja, dä ä dä is about equally awesome/uneven)
Pop Workshop - Vol. 1 (if you like it, you'd surely enjoy Song Of The Pterodactyl as well)
Vildkaktus - Vindarnas Vägar (Tidsmaskinen is quite lovely too)
Kebnekaise - Kebnekaise (III is nice as well) Anna Sjalv Tredje - Tussilago Fanfara
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:07
Very much welcome to the super quick ones, Paul of The Prog Line Chanel and Saperlip the O'Pette.
Paul certainly suprising with a RIO album.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:15
David_D wrote:
Very much welcome to the super quick ones, Paul of The Prog Line Chanel and Saperlip the O'Pette.
Paul certainly suprising with a RIO album.
A RIO album? There are no Brazilian bands in my line-up - nor any albums by Duran Duran.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:19
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
David_D wrote:
Very much welcome to the super quick ones, Paul of The Prog Line Chanel and Saperlip the O'Pette.
Paul certainly suprising with a RIO album.
A RIO album? There are no Brazilian bands in my line-up - nor any albums by Duran Duran.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:22
David_D wrote:
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
David_D wrote:
Very much welcome to the super quick ones, Paul of The Prog Line Chanel and Saperlip the O'Pette.
Paul certainly suprising with a RIO album.
A RIO album? There are no Brazilian bands in my line-up - nor any albums by Duran Duran.
Anyway, you got me curious, so I have to listen to it.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 04:37
13AnekdotenVemodSwe1993
13ÄnglagårdHybrisSwe1992
13PaatosTimelossSwe2002
13Samla Mammas MannaMåltidSwe1973Avant
12AgusaKatarsisSwe2016
12AgusaAgusaSwe2017
12Älgarnas TrädgårdFramtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp,
Förankrat I Forntiden1972
12AnekdotenUntil All the Ghosts are GoneSwe2015
12ÄnglagårdEpilogSwe1994
12Gösta Berlings SagaSersophaneSwe2016
12HooffootHooffootSwe2015
12HooffootThe Lights in the Aisle Will Guide YouSwe2019
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 06:15
Sean Trane wrote:
13AnekdotenVemodSwe1993
13ÄnglagårdHybrisSwe1992
12 Älgarnas Trädgård Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp,
Förankrat I Forntiden 1972
12 Landberk Riktigt Äkta Swe 1992
I've seen you before being very fond of those, Sean - very nice.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 06:26
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Simon Steensland - Fat Again
Anglagard - Hybris
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
Förträngt Hushållsarbete - Offret om att Älska...
Gösta Berlings Saga - Glue Works
Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
Agusa - En Annan Varld
Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden
All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light
Anekdoten - Vemod
Hausswolff, Anna von - Ceremony
Hooffoot - The Lights in the Aisle Will Guide You
Ill Wicker - Untamed
Makajodama - Makajodama
My Brother The Wind - Once There Was a Time When Time and Space Were One
Ur Kaos - Av Sprucket Ut Är Valt Ett Inuti
------------- Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 11:58
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic, the Miraculous, Ceremony (been listening to her the most of late) Anna Sjalv Tredje - Tussilago Fanfara (one of my absolute faves in Electronic) Ragnarök - Ragnarök Björn J:son Lindh - Från storstad till grodspad (but I like all his early one) Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen (and others) Dungen - Ta det lugnt Älgarnas Trädgård - Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor Samla Mammas Manna - Måltid Gösta Berlings Saga - Sersophane Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
With a special love letter to The Cardigans even if the ain't your grandma's kind of Prog (wouldn't have been my Swedish grandfather's kind of Prog either, or his grandson's even if he loves 'em). :)
------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 12:11
Anglagard : Epilog Anglagard : Hybris Agusa : Tva Agusa : Hôgtid All traps on earth Anekdoten : Vemod Anekdoten : From within Anekdoten : Gravity Anekdoten : Official bootleg live in Japan Anekdoten : Time of day Anglagard : Viljans Oga Atlas : Bla Vardag Bearfish : Mammoth Beardfish : The Sane Day Beardfish :Sleeping in traffic Bodin Tomas : An ordinary night in my ordinary life Elephant9/ReineFiske TFK : Back in the world of adventures TFK : Flower Power TFK : The Rainmaker TFK : Retrpolis TFK : Stardust we are TFK : Unfold the Future Galleon : Mind over matter Grand Stand : Tricks of time José Gonzales : In our nature In these murky waters : Same Isildur's bane with Peter Hammill : In disequilibrium Isildur's bane with Peter Hammill : In Amazonia Bjorn Johansson : Discus Ursi Junip : Black refuge Junip : Fileds Kaipa : Inget nytt under solen Karmakanic : Who is the boss in the Factory ? Landberk : One man tell's another Landberk : Lonely Land Landberk : Unaffected Pär Lindh Project : Gothic Impressions Liquid Scarlet : II Makajodama : Same Moon Safari : Blomljud Moon Safari : A doorway to summer Moon Safari : The Gettysburg Adress Morte Macabre : Symphonic Holocaust My Brother the Wind : I wash my soul in the stream of infinity ( what a title !) My Brother the Wind : Live at Roadburn My Brother the Wind : Once there was a time when time and space were one ( not bad ! ) Opeth : Damnation EP Paatos : Kallocain Simon Says : Ceinwein Simon Says : Paradise Square Simon Says : Tardigrade Stille Opprör : same Roine Stolt : The Flower King Sinkadus : Aurum Nostrum Sinkadus : Cirkus Trentmoller : In the great wide yonder Tusmorke : Fort bak lyset Twin Age : Lialim High Valinor's Tree : Kingdom of Sadness Zello : Quodlibet
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 12:32
You certainly seem to be an afficionado of Swedish Prog, Mellotronwave.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 12:58
Has anyone mentioned The Flower Kings yet, or are they too obvious?
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 13:18
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
Has anyone mentioned The Flower Kings yet, or are they too obvious?
They're just not very good.
------------- Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 15:27
Every Freak Kitchen album, but they ain't prog according to PA.
All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Anglagard - Viljans Oga
Anekdoten - Nucleus
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 15:40
I hope that I didn't come across any plans of yours, Mirakaze, as I remember you talking about Swedish thread, but now
I didn't reckon, it was actual anymore.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 15:49
Grumpyprogfan wrote:
Anekdoten - Nucleus
That would be "avantgardish" for me, but I'll give it a new listen.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 16:58
David_D wrote:
Grumpyprogfan wrote:
Anekdoten - Nucleus
That would be "avantgardish" for me, but I'll give it a new listen.
After the first one, it looks like, this album has got a new friend, as maybe even more creative and interesting than Vemod, and different enough from Vemod.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 22:50
Posted By: RockHound
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 23:40
My favorites are:
Back in the World of Adventures Stardust We Are Unfold the afuture Banks of Eden
All the Anglagård albums
Blomlijud Lover’s End
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 23:46
I do have a few, but I'm not sure I know them well enough to pick my top ones. I do know Hybris are among my very favourite Scret of the Runes (by Therion). I enjoyed the Kaipa do Capo album well enough... more than the classic Kaipa albums I think. The last Anekdoten album was great too, I guess I should check out more from them. And I have been hearing a bit or Landberk's Riktigt Akta (on YouTube) and have been enjoying it very much, but it's been years and have not been able to find it available to buy it (and I do want the version in swedish). And it's not prog, but I have found about a band called Garmarna (folk) and have been enjoying that one too... specially the album Guds Spelleman.
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 24 2022 at 23:50
Logan wrote:
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic, the Miraculous, Ceremony (been listening to her the most of late)
As have I. Forgot she's from the geograpically same place as alll those hairy hippies and freaks on my list of favorites. Sure feels like another time and place entirely.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 25 2022 at 03:31
Dellinger wrote:
The last Anekdoten album was great too, I guess I should check out more from them.
I can surely recommend their first two, or the third one if something more melodic and easier for the ears.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 25 2022 at 06:14
David_D wrote:
David_D wrote:
Grumpyprogfan wrote:
Anekdoten - Nucleus
That would be "avantgardish" for me, but I'll give it a new listen.
After the first one, it looks like, this album has got a new friend, as maybe even more creative and interesting than Vemod, and different enough from Vemod.
It definitely looks like, I'll become fond of Nucleus as well, Grumpy.
As a curiosity, it can be told that the last track on this album, In Freedom, echoes both Cream's Dance the Night Away and Metallica's Orion.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 25 2022 at 07:23
To be honest, I only have one, but love it very much!
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 25 2022 at 11:30
A few more recent prog discoveries from Sweden, which reminds me of the time when Sweden beat England at football (or soccer to my American friends) and the headline in the papers the next day was:- SWEDES: 2 TURNIPS: 1
Galleon (Neo Prog)
Grand Stand (Symphonic Prog)
Isidurs Bane (Symphonic Prog)
Par Lindh Project (Symphonic Prog)
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 25 2022 at 13:40
Psychedelic Paul wrote:
A few more recent prog discoveries from Sweden, which reminds me of the time when Sweden beat England at football (or soccer to my American friends) and the headline in the papers the next day was:- SWEDES: 2 TURNIPS: 1
Galleon (Neo Prog)
Grand Stand (Symphonic Prog)
Isidurs Bane (Symphonic Prog)
Par Lindh Project (Symphonic Prog)
Actually, I am familiar and like the Par Lindh Project, my mistake in not mentioning them. When Triumvirat singer Barry Palmer went to St. Louis,Missouri, USA in the late 1990s for a couple of in part Triumvirat reunion concerts, PLP were there to back him.
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: August 26 2022 at 01:45
David_D wrote:
I hope that I didn't come across any plans of yours, Mirakaze, as I remember you talking about Swedish thread, but now
I didn't reckon, it was actual anymore.
That's quite alright; I'd kind of forgotten about those plans myself
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 26 2022 at 08:46
Mirakaze wrote:
David_D wrote:
I hope that I didn't come across any plans of yours, Mirakaze, as I remember you talking about Swedish thread, but now
I didn't reckon, it was actual anymore.
That's quite alright; I'd kind of forgotten about those plans myself
That's how it can be.
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Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: August 26 2022 at 13:59
ABBA has done a bit of prog, such as Intermezzo No. 1. LOL
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 27 2022 at 07:00
David_D wrote:
Grumpyprogfan wrote:
Anekdoten - Nucleus
It definitely looks like, I'll become fond of Nucleus as well, Grumpy.
As a curiosity, it can be told that the last track on this album, In Freedom, echoes both Cream's Dance the Night Away and Metallica's Orion.
While Nucleus as a whole seems to me to be quite a lot inspired by Larks' Tongues in Aspic.
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 27 2022 at 17:24
Going with ten albums and one per band otherwise Anekdoten, Anglagard and Landberk will dominate it. I absolutely love Swedish music, the melancholic retro stuff especially. In no order.
Gosta Berlings Saga- Detta Har Hant Lamagaia- Lamagaius Anekdoten- Gravity or Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
The Spacious Mind- Rotvalta
All Traps On Earth- A Drop Of Light Opeth- Damnation Kultivater- Barndomins Stigar Landberk- One Man Tells Another Anglagard- Hybris
Sinkadus- Cirkus
Some fine albums right there from my music world. Big fan of that Dream Pop vibe on The Amazing's Ambulance. Or the Neo Prog from Twin Age called Lialim High. Liquid Scarlet's debut is cool. Flasket Brinner's debut for the jamming style. Katatonia's Great Cold Distance needs a mention.
------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 28 2022 at 04:31
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 28 2022 at 04:53
As quite usually for "my" threads, some lyrics which here are English translation of
Änglagård -"Vandringar i vilsenhet"(excerpt)
Fragments from times past are now.
The world of loneliness where we live, with everything that has been piled up all around us, constantly brings our inner being towards disturbance and disharmony.
All dreamers who know something else are wrong. It may be that one is led astray. Why exist here for no good? Time goes suffering, my soul passes onwards in the dream.
(from the album Hybris (1992), the source: http://www.arlequins.it/translations/Anglagard-Hybris.asp )
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 31 2022 at 12:55
For whatever reasons, I surely find the Swedish post-70's Prog better than Danish.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 31 2022 at 14:39
Listing every artist just once I get to ten just about:
Anekdoten - From Within
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
Zamla Mammaz Manna - Familjesprickor
Gösta Berlings Saga - Glue Works
Opeth - Heritage
Bo Hansson - Lord of the Rings
RAF/Jonas Hellborg - Ode to a Tractor
Isildur's Bane with Peter Hammill - In Disequilibrium
All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light
Anglagard - Hybris
For sure some more Anekdoten and Samla would be in the Top 10 otherwise, maybe also von Hausswolff, Opeth, Hansson, and I still have to get around listening to more Gösta Berlings Saga. I want to do that for ages, but so little time, so much music.
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 31 2022 at 15:19
Lewian wrote:
...I still have to get around listening to more Gösta Berlings Saga. I want to do that for ages, but so little time, so much music.
After many years like that, I'm now in a period when I'm taking it more easy - for better or worse.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 02 2022 at 08:40
not in any strict order
Angalgard - Hybris
All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light
Par Lindh Project - Veni Vidi Vici
Par Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus
The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree
The Flower Kings - Islands
The Flower Kings - Waiting For Miracles
Katatonia - City Burials
Gungfly - On Her Journey To The Sun
Gosta Berlings Saga - Sersophane
Gosta Berlings Saga - Et Ex
Opeth - Sorceress
Kaipa - Children of the Sounds
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 03 2022 at 04:09
The Par Lindh Project: a Swedish Symphonic Prog band par excellence. Their outstanding second album is beyond compare, although none of PLP's albums are ever below par - but why is being below par seen as such a bad thing anyway when golfers strive to be under par? I think the unlucky chap in the video below is going to struggle to make par though, especially when there's an annoying devil lurking about with a bucketful of golf balls.
1999: Par Lindh Project - Live in America - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k2QsEBQmU_iy0JBGThfzYe_iH4-tyrtz8 " rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k2QsEBQmU_iy0JBGThfzYe_iH4-tyrtz8
2001: Par Lindh Project - Veni Vidi Vici - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJ3K_J2mInAoRtPsQS7JEL3yB1LOrrWJY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJ3K_J2mInAoRtPsQS7JEL3yB1LOrrWJY
2002: Par Lindh Project - Live in Iceland - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lhmpoIPR0Eql8kdThiINVAK7FGSu82iLE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lhmpoIPR0Eql8kdThiINVAK7FGSu82iLE
2011: Par Lindh Project - Time Mirror - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNBFI6WagN2xIL2PQlE_c5B_VP-QMExo0" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNBFI6WagN2xIL2PQlE_c5B_VP-QMExo0
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 04 2022 at 02:04
^ love the positivity on PLP Paul and I agree on the slight down marking of the last album. Its a bit like late seventies Triumvirat , not terrible but not great.
Posted By: Zeph
Date Posted: September 04 2022 at 23:01
Änglagard - Viljans
Öga
Opeth - Ghost
Reveries
All Traps On Earth -
A Drop of Light
Samla Mammas Manna -
Måltid
Anekdoten - Until
All the Ghosts Are Gone
Withcraft - Legend
(not on PA, but worth a mention)
Atlas - Blå Vardag
Karmakanic - DOT
Agusa - En Annan
Värld
Simon Steensland -
Oscillospira
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: September 14 2022 at 09:00
David_D wrote:
David_D wrote:
Grumpyprogfan wrote:
Anekdoten - Nucleus
That would be "avantgardish" for me, but I'll give it a new listen.
After the first one, it looks like, this album has got a new friend, as maybe even more creative and interesting than Vemod, and different enough from Vemod.
By now I've listened a number of times to Nucleus, but I doubt that I'll find it as good as Vemod.
Something else which in fact even bothers me right now, after having got the 2004 CD reissue of it, is that I think of the layout of the booklet as rather poppish - and certainly not as cool as the 2003 CD reissue of Vemod.
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 14 2022 at 09:57
David_D wrote:
<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>You certainly seem to be an afficionado of Swedish Prog, Mellotronwave.
Me ? No !
Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 01 2023 at 03:36