THE VERGERS – Se dig för / Fader vår (Celesta, 1969)
Swedish vocals
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”Se dig för” is included on
”Frälst!” but B side ”Fader vår” remains uncomped. Not a
very good one, weaker than the A side, so there's no need to look for
this 45 if you have ”Frälst!”. This was the last of The Vergers'
four singles.
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Two tracks unique to this Chile solidarity single, although side one's ”Ett enat folk” is available in a live version on ”Koncert I København Okt. 1973”. Side B has ”IB, ÖB och SÄPO” about the political scandal described in some detail here. For Fria Proteatern fans only.
OPPONER – Alfa blues / Till min make (Opponer, 1975)
Swedish vocals
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Two tracks not on Opponer's full length album. ”Alfa blues” is exacrly that, a blues number of no
particular merir, while ”Till min make” is a traditional tune
with new lyrics by Opponer singer Anna Olofsson and bassist Mats
Sönnfors. A much better song with that sweet melancholy typical to
the best Swedish folk tunes. Released with the aid from the workers at pump facorty Alfa Laval.
ELEVER PÅ MUSIKLÄRARSKOLAN SÄMUS I GÖTEBORG / FRIA PROTEATERN – Vietnam Kambodja befriade (Befria Södern, 1975)
Swedish vocals
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As the Vietnam war ended in 1975, so did the stream of releases
from De Förenade FNL-grupperna and their cohorts. This was the last
of those, a three track EP split between Fria Proteatern and Elever på musiklärarskolan SÄMUS i Göteborg (students
at the Gothenburg school for music teachers). Released to
celebrate the war's end, it's typical political stuff very much in
line with the other Vietnam albums and singles, and so best ignored.
Fria Proteatern's ”Balladen om Rune Henry Johansson” is also on
”Sånger från ljugarbänken”.
BJÖRN AFZELIUS BAND / NATIONALTEATERN – Kamrater, Bodenarbetare / Rädda varven! (Nacksving, 1978)
Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
Two exclusive tracks, one by Björn Afzelius Band and one by Nationalteatern. Afzelius's ”Kamrater, Bodenarbetare” is in support of the strikers at Boden's car factory in 1978. It's a pretty good track with slight folk rock shadings, good especially for Björn Afzelius. Nationalteatern's ”Rädda varven!” is a call to save the Gothenburg boatyard threatened by shutdown which eventually happened. A weak track in an undistinguished Gothenburg/Nacksving rock style.
EN RÖD KÖR OCH SÅNGGRUPPEN DEN MÄNSKLIGA FAKTORN – Säj nej! (no label, EP 1980)
Swedish vocals
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A privately pressed single released in
1980, the year of the Swedish nuclear power referendum and has
anti-nuclear message. It has two acts, the choir En Röd Kör and
vocal folk group Den Mänskliga Faktorn, although it's hard to say if
it all involves the same people. Acoustic as it is it could easily
fall into the Fria Proteatern trap but there's something very
charming and disarming about the unpretentious atmosphere. The rock &
roll pastiche ”The Sysselsättning Rock” is pretty terrible but
the other songs are in fact rather catchy. Well, perhaps I wouldn't call the
title track exactly catchy, but it's a quite atmospheric adaptation
of a Czech herding song. It's nothing I would particularly recommend,
but I've heard far worse and way more self-important examples of
political songs than these.
The Vergers:
Se dig för (Bandcamp)
Fader vår
Fria Proteatern:
Ett enat folk (El Pueblo Unido)
IB, ÖB och SÄPO
Opponer:
Alfa blues
Till min make
Vietnam Kambodja befriade:
SÄMUS - Vietnam är befriat
Fria Proteatern - Balladen om Rune Henry Johansson
SÄMUS - Kambodja är befriat
Björn Afzelius/Nationalteatern:
Björn Afzelius Band - Kamrater, Bodenarbetare
Nationalteatern - Rädda varven!
En Röd Kör och sånggruppen Den Mänskliga Faktorn:
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