No doubt one of the best recordings of legendary Swedish psych-rockers Trad Gras Och Stenar. (Other Music) There’s nothing like this bunch of progressive hippie Swedes reared on minimalism. This bonus cut is previously unreleased.

Just in time for Träd Gräs och Stenar (Trees Grass and Stones) 40-year anniversary the Swedish psychedelic trance-rock pioneers releases a new album - Hemlösa Katter (Homeless Cats). The first one in seven years and the seventh since the singing start in 1969. Eleven new boundless tracks with organic music for open minds. A 40-year anniversary is actually rather on the small. Back in 1967 the guitarist BoAnders Persson had already started his Terry Riley-inspired underground band Pärson Sound with the bass player Torbjörn Abelli and drummer Thomas Mera Gartz, amongst others. They evolved into International Harvester, then Harvester, and finally striking root as Träd Gräs och Stenar in 1969. The following year they arranged, end performed at, the legendary Swedish Gärdes-festivals that pioneered the Swedish alternative music movement. Träd Gräs och Stenar creates their own contemporary music, even if they have been compared to Krautrockers like Can and Faust internationally. Rhythmic heart pumping and sound streaming, sure – but at the same time peculiarly Swedish, with their roots in the mould and with branches that reaches high up in to the clear air. The new album, “Homeless Cats”, has also been able to develop in its own tempo. It was recorded by the band themselves during the period 2002-2007, mostly under jam-like forms in the bands rehearsal house and studio in Viksund - Sweden, but also live at gigs. During this period they also toured Europe, USA, Russia and Japan...

This is a live recording of brutal acid rock made with a handheld recorder at Sweden's first major outdoor hippie music festival. The sound is unexpectedly clear, the music a sometimes fumbling fusion of Western rock music, Terry Riley-ish repetition, and Swedish folk sounds. But even the experiments that don't work are fascinating, and the songs that are good--notably their languid, crude, 10-minute versions of "Satisfaction" and "All Along The Watchtower"--are a total contact high, even 30 years later. It's like Blue Cheer jamming with Popol Vuh. If you like Can, Third Ear Band, Amon Duul 1, Hawkwind, and the first Quicksilver record, this stuff is really worth hunting down.