{"id":270,"date":"2016-02-13T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T10:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facetterad.net\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2016-03-10T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T11:01:08","slug":"intervju-bo-anders-persson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facetterad.net\/blog\/intervju-bo-anders-persson\/","title":{"rendered":"Artikel: Bo Anders Persson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/l7o05OHQVO\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jag skriver om Bo Anders Persson i nya numret av Shindig!. #shindig #boanderspersson<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">Ett foto publicerat av Johan Jacobsson (@johanfredrikjacobsson) <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2014-03-24T16:20:33+00:00\">Mar 24, 2014 kl. 9:20 PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">The year is 1966. The season is that tentative limbo that follows fall and precedes winter.<br \/>\nThe city is Stockholm.<br \/>\nThrough the hallowed halls of the Royal Academy of Music recently admitted student Bo Anders Persson tiptoes to class.<br \/>\nHe doesn\u2019t yet know this \u2013 of course \u2013 but the compositions that he\u2019ll write during the following twelve months are going to cause a sensation in 2014.<br \/>\nThis because the always excellent Subliminal Sounds label recently released a double LP called \u201cLove Is Here To Stay\u201d \u2013 a collection of Bo Anders\u2019 early works. This because \u201cLove Is Here To Stay\u201d is absolutely amazing. Its seven tracks \u2013 all but one previously unreleased \u2013 are all suggestive, thought-provoking and profound. Within their doom laden drones, Terry Riley-esque tape loops and expressive wordless vocals one finds both dystopian nightmares and organic beauty.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p>Chiefly responsible for putting \u201cLove Is Here To Stay\u201d together is guitarist Reine Fiske, well known for his stellar contributions to constellations such as The Amazing, Dungen, Landberk, Motorpsycho and Elephant9. Reine has laboured on \u201cLove Is Here to Stay\u201d for quite some time \u2013 there is a mention of it in issue number 15 (January 2003) of the Swedish fanzine The Broken Face, for instance \u2013 but his love for Bo Anders\u2019 music has never once faltered.<br \/>\n\u201cI still find it almost physically exhausting to listen to some tracks on \u2018Love Is Here To Stay\u2019,\u201d Reine praises via e-mail. \u201cBo Anders\u2019 music carries with it a very wondrous power, a power that I haven\u2019t heard elsewhere. Bo Anders has a very prominent and special place in my musical heart and he\u2019s one of the main visionaries of this era. The blessing of working on \u2018Love Is Here To Stay\u2019 slowed the whole process down.\u201d<br \/>\nEver modest, Bo Anders has shied away from the creation of \u201cLove Is Here To Stay.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s Reine\u2019s thing\u201d, he says over the telephone from his home in Liken\u00e4s. \u201cAnd then it shall be so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Is Here To Stay\u201d is not the first box compilation of Bo Anders related material that Reine Fiske has been involved in. Thirteen years ago he completed \u201cP\u00e4rson Sound\u201d, a double CD that introduced the godlike genius of P\u00e4rson Sound to the world.<br \/>\n\u201cI had this idea that I wanted to create some improvisatory music, noise music in this little room that the Royal College of Music let me borrow,\u201d Bo Anders remembers. \u201cSo I got a little group together.\u201d<br \/>\nThis little group \u2013 Torbj\u00f6rn Abelli (bass), Arne Ericsson (electric cello), Urban Yman (electric violin) and Bo Anders on guitar and tape loops \u2013 was the first version of P\u00e4rson Sound.<br \/>\n\u201cP\u00e4rson Sound started to consume all my energy\u201d, Bo Anders continues. \u201cAnd I got involved in politics. So I dropped out of the Royal College of Music. I was a very bad student, I kind of regret that. They arranged some very interesting composition seminars; Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen came over and gave talks. I should\u2019ve paid more attention.\u201d<br \/>\nThe first official gig that P\u00e4rson Sound played was at the experimental theatre Pistolteatern, on the 29th of April, 1967. Not all audience members made it through to its very end \u2013 in fact a few didn\u2019t even last half a song \u2013 but those who did got to experience something truly radical: music that almost magically combined Terry Riley\u2019s minimalism with The Rolling Stones\u2019 groovy rawness and the defiant spirit of Swedish folk. Music that rocked both your heart and your brain. Universal, sensual, transcendent, danceable music.<br \/>\nNever before had Sweden heard such home-grown sounds, melodies and rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1966 and 1967 the first fledgling, then outstanding Pink Floyd were something of a house band for London\u2019s underground. For Stockholm it was P\u00e4rson Sound that fulfilled this role. After the Pistolteatern show they picked up lots of other engagements \u2013 at Filips, at Moderna Museet, at 7 Sekel\u2026 wherever the left-wing intelligentsia would meet \u2013 and along the way they also picked up two new members; former Mecki Mark Men drummer Thomas Mera Gartz and man about town\/Renaissance man Thomas Tidholm. In August 1968 they changed their name to International Harvester, after the eponymous American agricultural machinery manufacturer.<br \/>\nDuring their short heyday no records under the name P\u00e4rson Sound saw the light, but International Harvester released one \u2013 the altogether excellent \u201cSov Gott Rose-Marie\u201d (Love Records, 1968). Finally the public at large \u2013 or at least the tuned in radicals \u2013 could lay their hands on an artefact partially cultivated by Bo Anders.<br \/>\nMore were to follow, though. International Harvester became Harvester in 1969 and finalized the sweet LP \u201cHem\u00e5t.\u201d Thomas Tidholm and Urban Yman then left to pursue other interests and another name change \u2013 this time to Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar \u2013 was in order.<br \/>\nAnother new beginning.<br \/>\nNevertheless all these groups have, despite their different names and denominations, a certain sonic similarity.<br \/>\n\u201cIf there had been a modern nature religion in which one invoked nature, our music would be that religion\u2019s music,\u201d Bo Anders states.<\/p>\n<p>On June 7, 2008 Bo Anders played his final show with Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar.<br \/>\n\u201cI was somewhat sad when I walked off the stage that evening,\u201d he says. \u201cBut mostly I was relieved to not have to travel that much anymore. Airports are the antithesis of everything I want to be a part of.\u201d<br \/>\nAbout a year after this farewell Subliminal Sounds put out \u201dHeml\u00f6sa Katter &#8211; Homeless Cats,\u201d Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar\u2019s approximately sixth album. Its booklet states that it\u2019s the last Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar record to feature Bo Anders\u2019 guitar playing, however due to the tragic passing of Torbj\u00f6rn Abelli (10\/2, 1945 &#8211; 11\/8, 2010) and Thomas Mera Gartz (4\/4, 1944 \u2013 29\/4, 2012) it\u2019ll probably also be the last Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar album ever.<br \/>\nBut their legacy lives on.<br \/>\nJust two years ago Newcastle Upon Tyne\u2019s prodigal stoner rock collective Bong finalized the wonderful CD \u201cMana-Yood-Sushai,\u201d which second track (of two) was titled \u201cTrees, Grass And Stones.\u201d West coast psych-rockers Wooden Shjips added the extra \u201cj\u201d to their name as a tribute to Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar. And in Sweden the mighty Hills \u2013 and to a lesser extent Goat \u2013 are carrying the Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar torch.<br \/>\nTo name but three examples.<br \/>\nThen there are the reissues and the archival releases, proof that the record buying public cannot get enough of either Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar or their predecessors. Both \u201cSov Gott Rose-Marie\u201d and \u201cHem\u00e5t\u201d saw the light as CDs on the now defunct Silence label in 2001. Five years earlier Subliminal Sounds realized the CD \u201cG\u00e4rdet 12.3.1970,\u201d an amazing artefact that captures an unrelenting Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar live at the illegal Festen p\u00e5 G\u00e4rdet festival. The \u201cLove Is Here To Stay\u201d and \u201cP\u00e4rson Sound\u201d box sets are \u2013 as mentioned \u2013 must haves. Even the rather obscure but altogether fabulous LP \u201cReportage: Spela Sj\u00e4lv\u201d (Expo Norr, 1970) \u2013 a by Bo Anders compiled compilation of anonymous Swedish amateur musicians playing their hearts out \u2013 has been lovingly reproduced, albeit in bootleg form.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a possibility that \u2018Love Is Here To Stay\u2019 will get a follow up in the future, as well,\u201d Reine Fiske reveals. \u201cBecause there is more material. Furthermore [Swedish authour and ex-Solen Skiner drummer] H\u00e5kan Agns\u00e4ter has begun writing a book about P\u00e4rson Sound\/International Harvester\/Tr\u00e4d, Gr\u00e4s Och Stenar and the time they lived in.\u201d<br \/>\nBo Anders himself doesn\u2019t spend much time pondering his contributions to the world of art.<br \/>\n\u201cSome people have said that they\u2019ve been influenced by something that I\u2019ve done,\u201d he hesitates. \u201cMaybe some people think of the music that I\u2019ve been involved in as a special room that they feel at home in. But I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the vegetable garden outside his old wooden house, Bo Anders grows carrots, potatoes, onions, pumpkins, tomatoes, chilli, garlic\u2026 Here he feels at home; he\u2019s been an organic farmer and an environmentalist since the late sixties, and his love of nature knows no bounds.<br \/>\nDespite some stiffness in his joints from age (he\u2019ll be 77 come October 2nd), toiling the soil and repairing the house (\u201cI\u2019ve spent the last year isolating the place with hemp, if you can believe that,\u201d he laughs), Bo Anders still finds time for music.<br \/>\n\u201cI play some piano and some folk music on my violin and I fiddle around on the computer,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are some Syrian refugees living in an accommodation near my house and the other day I played for them. It went okay, they seemed to appreciate it. A few young children came up to me afterwards and wanted to touch my violin and I felt \u2018I don\u2019t want to stop playing now\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><small><i>Ursprungligen publicerad i Shindig! #38, 2014<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/facetterad.net\/blog\/intervju-bo-anders-persson\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Artikel: Bo Anders Persson\"><p>Jag skriver om Bo Anders Persson i nya numret av Shindig!. #shindig #boanderspersson Ett foto publicerat av Johan Jacobsson (@johanfredrikjacobsson) Mar 24, 2014 kl. 9:20 PDT The year is 1966. The season is that tentative limbo that follows fall and precedes winter. The city is Stockholm. 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