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Notes: This
swinging Swedish quartet, which the liner notes credit for creating
the "space sound", plays an interesting brand of instrumental
surf and, well, space rock. I'm not sure when these cuts were recorded,
but their first recordings were in 1960 and they were still playing
in the Oldie Night line up in May of 1997. The guys used, for the
time, huge guitar amps, an anti-feedback device and a 6 head echo
machine. And on top of that they used self-emitting guitars so
they were free to move about at will in their space suits. All
this aside they do manage to pull off both the Orange Blossom Special
and the Hank Wiliams tune Hey Hey Good Looking. I don't know how
or when the surf sound got so firmly entrenched in the Swedish
psyche, but I'm glad it did. A 10" French EP with a perfect
group photo on the front and the boys in the street on the back.
A very fun find.
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