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  • 1985: Sista året med gänget

    BEN-RE-004

    Artist: Biljardakademien

    Label: Bendi

    After half the band had left, all of them were replaced by a vocalist and guitarrist who gave Biljardakademien a more progressive and psychedelic sound. This line up only existed for a few months and here are their complete works.

  • Uppehållsväder - Live 1984

    BEN-RE-003

    Artist: Biljardakademien

    Label: Bendi

    Biljardakademien's last live performance with the classic line up (Kjell Häglund, Niklas Söderberg, Helen Jakobsson, Rutger Langland, Christer Ekwall, Ulf Kahl and very special guest Folke Jakobsson on trombone) recorded on a tape deck on October 19, 1984. And now it is released in its full for the very first time, exactly 25 years later.

  • Fallbilder

    BEN-EP-006

    Artist: Biljardakademien

    Label: Bendi

    Some people have paid hundreds of dollars for this rare 1984 cult single. This version of the single comes without the vinyl, but instead it's cheaper than ever with a bonus live track.

  • Gryningsfolk i skymningsland

    BEN-RE-002

    Artist: Biljardakademien

    Label: Bendi

    If ever there was a story of Biljardakademien, it's being written now. I tried to write it with the help of Kjell Häglund and fanzine maker Joakim Norling a few years ago, but the core has been missing until now: their music. In recent years, I've noticed an interest in the band's tapes and only single. In Sweden, the young world of fanzines brought its attention to the band as well as other fractions of the more artistic side of Swedish postpunk (like Webstrarna, Svart etc). Despite primitive recordings, however, BA created more than postpunk. Biljardakademien made music with a jazz nerve, music with jealous rhythms, music suave like pop.
    Mr Norling sees them as a group that stood out: "they emerged in a context in which music was supposed to be heavy. At the time, lightness only existed in that type of popular music (Monica Zetterlund et al), which those involved in the seventies' music movement and their postpunk successors had tried their best to marginalise."
    BA's lyrics were influenced by literature: "you came across the brink of my perception". They are vivid in their own way: "I was probably quite lonely, by the shore this day..." Some have whole stories to tell, like the one about young workers and lovers in "Arbetarmelodi": "you grabbed my hand as we clocked out." In other songs, like "Fallbilder," the major events occur in parentheses: "Between the verses, his book is a failure," Häglund says about the ex-writer of frivolous novels who takes a jo...