The Beatles, Brian Auger, Caravan, The Charlatans, Chapterhouse, Count Basie’s Orchestra, The Cure, Deep Purple, The Doors, The End, Hansson&Karlsson, Jan Johansson, Jimmy Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Pale Saints, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Ride, Santana, Spencer Davis Group.
Trummor & Orgel is a brotherhood, musically of drums and organ but also in the actual sense of the word as Anders Ljunggren and Staffan Ljunggren are real life brothers. Having grown up together their dynamic interplay onstage seems obvious as a manifestation of their brotherhood. Thus it is surprising to note that their joint musical venture, in reality is very young.
Trummor & Orgel was formed out of pop psych combo Second Glance in 2003 when Anders took up playing the organ. Anders, with his musical background in classical music and a vivid love for The Beatles was for the first time teamed musically with Staffan, an explosive drummer involved in several band projects in different directions, but always with an experimental edge. They found a common ground in psychedelia and jazz and decided to form a duo as a side project to Second Glance. Their immediate influence was the groundbreaking work of Swedish 60’s psychedelic jazz duo Hansson & Karlsson. They aptly labeled their work as “Trummor & Orgel-projektet” (The Drums & Organ Project) a name which came to stick with them as they saw their work move from a side project into their main focus.
In 2005 they recorded two full-length promo CDs, during a time when their music evolved considerably. With every new track, rehearsal and gig their music came to bloom, manifesting petals in all the colours of a musical rainbow including whirling psychedelia, stormy jazz, and whispering Swedish folk music, boasting diverse influences like Brian Auger, My Bloody Valentine and Count Basie while accentuating a uniqueness and specific style of their own.
Thanks to a dedicated fan of Trummor & Orgel’s one of these CDs reached the hands and ears of Fredrik Ekander at Cosmos Records. Impressed with the potential in these home made recordings Ekander booked them into the studio and less than two months later Trummor & Orgel’s first studio album was completed – an album that was subsequently released by fashionable label NittyGritty in April of 2006. The record was well received by the critics and also brought the attention of Ebbot Lundberg of near legendary Union Carbide Production and The Soundtrack of Our Lives fame. Trummor & Orgel came to join Soundtrack of Our Lives on the Swedish leg of their Scandinavian 2006 tour. From there on Trummor & Orgel went on gigging all over the country, most notably performing at the Stockholm Cultural Festival in the summer of 2006 but also adding to their experience performing in Norway.
All the while work continued in the studio reaching new musical heights, exploring their sound and broadening their musical palette and also collaborating with Ebbot Lundberg who came to label himself “stalker and fan” of the duo. The work culminated in the new album Reflections from a watery world. At the time of writing this the album is being shipped out to the shops and Trummor & Orgel are preparing themselves for a three week appearance at the renowned Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, a summer celebration of culture that since 1958 has gathered half a million visitors annually.
By Bengt Wallman, June 2007
Trummor & Orgel feat. Ebbot Lundberg - Tomorrow will tell Live at Carin 21:30 (SVT)
Trummor & Orgel - Arcadian Flowers Live at Ung08 festival, Stockholm
Two live videos feat. Ebbot Lundberg at TV4 Nyhetsmorgon:
Tjena Staffan! Kul att du spanade in oss :) Måste säga att er musik var otroligt behaglig att lyssna på, förutom The Doors-vibbarna älskar jag det psykadeliska i låtarna - skön musik att slappna av till! Och det sistnämnde gör att jag gärna vill tigga/köpa skivorna ;)
Javisst vill jag va er vän - ni svänger ju så det svartnar! Jag ska snart lägga upp lite mer bilder på studion så får ni se att det finns mer trivsamheter än mixerbordet!
nu behöver jag hjälp igen! är 5000 ett bra pris för en vox jaguar utan ben men med orginal case? dom har ju fruktansvärt skönt ljud så det lutar åt ett köp. men jag tänkte om ni (anders) hade nån koll på om det är ett ruggigt billigt pris, bra pris eller överpris. ha det bra!
Festivalsommaren 2008 kan ha varit en av de bästa i mannaminne och Joyzine var med precis där det hände. Vi besökte sammanlagt 14 svenska festivaler, recenserade 162 konserter och gjorde en mängd intervjuer. Idag publicerar vi den ultimata festivalsummeringen:
Såg er på rockoutfestivalen, var en av dom som stod längst fram. de som lyssnade ordentligt alltså. ni var riktigt bra. kommer se er på kulturnatten också!
men jag tänkte höra med er om ni vet nån som kanske säljer en billig orgel här i uppsala. hittade en på nätet, en philichord eller nåt. den verkar helt okej men det är inte så rockigt och psychedeliskt sound, tyckte det var mer synthigt och poppigt. (nen vi tänkte använda effektpedal via pa till den, overdrive och tremolo) vi ska ha den till bandet och vi ska spela lite blues/pyschedelisk rock a la doors och arthur brown, i alla fall arthur browns orgelsound. men lite rockigare haha.
den philichorden låg på 2.800 och 3000 är väl maxpriset, vore ju kung med en sån fin hammond som ni har men vi unga grabbar har inte pengarna till det.
Retro-Sci-Fi meets modern Dancefloor: our new album Traveler is now available worldwide on CD and as MP3. Visit us and enjoy the trip through time and space.
Hej på er och tack för vänskapen. Fantastiskt skön musik! Kolla gärna in Meadowmusic. se, en ny mp3-blogg, där vi tillsammans med andra i nätverket Meadow lyfter fram ny svensk musik. /Pär
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