More Info For a brief period during 1967-68, Pärson Sound was a frontrunner in theburgeoning Swedish music scene, leading to an opening gig for the Doors and aninvite from Andy Warhol to play an art exhibit in Stockholm. Regrettably, no albumwas ever cut and the band's activity ended almost as soon as it began " althoughlater manifestations would emerge and continue under the names InternationalHarvester, Harvester and Trad, Grasoch Stenar. Serving up a platter of archivalrecordings this Pärson Sound collection is drug-addled psychedelic mind fuckeryat its best. And that's just the beginning. Successfully marrying the ideas of rock jazz, and drone experimentalism, this Swedish quintet sounds like it wasn't just trying to break free of the limitations inherent in each genre; at times, it sounds like they were trying to blow the doors off the hinges. Metal brutalities of 60s heavyweights Blue Cheer merge with the minimalistic tone patterns of La Monte Young and Terry Riley. Pitchfork rating 9.3. Tracklist Tio Minuter One Quiet Afternoon (in the Kings Garden) From Tunis to India in Full Moon (on Testosterone) Sov Gott Rose-Marie A Glimpse Inside the Glyptotec.66 India (Slight Return) Skrubba (pt 1) Skrubba (pt 2) Milano On How to Live Bla‚slaten
