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HAPNA 050LP
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Vinyl-only release. "Any new recording by Eric Malmberg and his unique group Sagor & Swing is cause for celebration. If I had a radio show, I'd be cueing up 'Landet bortom landet Bortom' this very instant and just waiting for the phone lines to light up. I might play it five times in a row. I was first drawn to Sagor & Swing by swirling modal melodies that make the Hammond organ sound like the earliest of musical instruments. On Botvid Grenlunds Park, Eric's Hammond gets wrapped up in spirited dialogues with its infinitely more bouncy, bubbly colleague the synthesizer, all in a mirror unexpectedly brightly. I still hear the solemn beauty of previous Sagor & Swing, but something else is beginning to boil." --Pleasure Sounds, David Grubbs, April 2013
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HAPNA 016CD
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"The new record by Sagor & Swing is quite different from their earlier low-key, melancholic records. Their characteristic sound is still there, but Orgelplaneten is more direct and joyful, more pop perhaps. Their basic instrumentation, organ and drums, is completed with Moog and accordion. This aspect of Sagor & Swing has always been there as a parallel track, but Orgelplaneten is the first time it is expressed on record. This is the fourth album by Sagor & Swing (all released by Häpna)."
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HAPNA 008CD
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Year 2002 release. "Sagor & Swing is Eric Malmberg on Hammond organ and Ulf Möller on drums. This is the follow up to their debut album Orgelfärger. Melodier och fåglar (melodies and birds) is minimal and timeless, naive and simple. Eric calls his melodies 'Nothing music'. Something to listen to when you almost want it to be quiet. When you are so affected by the noise from the media that you no longer bear with real silence. Then you may listen to Melodier och fåglar. By the time the record has ended, you may stay in the sofa and finally enjoy the quietness and stillness."
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HAPNA 005CD
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"In the living room of a small house in Dalarna, the Swedish countryside, Sagor & Swing has recorded this timeless music evoking the surrounding landscape -- the forests, mountains and lakes. Moody and simple melodies with echoes of old Swedish folk tunes and the nature in the paintings of John Bauer. Some years ago, Eric Malmberg was given an organ from legendary Swedish organ player Bo Hansson, one half of the 70´s drums/organ duo Hansson & Karlsson. This organ was the very one used on Hansson´s epic record Lord of the Rings, an influential record which combined jazz and rock together with minor key melodies of Swedish folk music. Sagor & Swing makes a more minimal journey. The melodies unfold at a calm pace and the whole album has a mesmerizing feeling to it. This is music which could only have been made in Sweden. While the music of Björn Olsson, another Swede influenced by folk music, is connected to the archipelago of the Swedish west coast, Sagor & Swing has it's spiritual home in the old forests deep in the middle of the country."
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HAPNA 012CD
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"The myth of Sagor & Swing tells that they are children of nature that grew up in the forest. That they at an early age built their first instruments and isolated from the noise of civilization invented a music of their own. What we know for sure, however, is that they make wonderful organ music and have been doing this for some time now. This is their third album, Allt Hänger Samman. The woods have thickened. The melodies have become more intricate and the idyllic scenes now have a darker tone. One slips away on excursions in the faintest sounds through passages where the organ is a tone generator built to recreate the sounds of the forest -- the wind, the singing of birds, the creaking of roots. As soon as the majestic introduction 'Återkomsten' begins, one senses that something is going on. In 'Lövverk' echoes are heard of Kraftwerk and their endless ostinati and the final 'Alla sagor har ett slut' is a magnificent, minimalistic bookending. The moods that are summoned in between the songs keeps one helplessly in the world of Sagor & Swing."
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