Friday, 18 April 2025

Sogmusobil's Telefon from 1971 Sweden

 



Information on this group here:

Johnny Mowinckel from Atlantic Ocean and the poet Einar Heckscher formed the band Telefon Paisa in 1970 together with guitarist Tommy Broman, bassist Labbe Bergström and drummer Dick Nettelbrandt. For a while, the guitarist Ingemar Böcker also participated, but was soon replaced by Hans Berggren on saxophone. This band became notorious for their unpredictable and not entirely sober performances.

Telefon Paisa was later dissolved. Heckscher and Mowinckel then formed, together with Nettelbrandt, the band Sogmusobil, an abbreviation for "Stark och god musik utföres snabbt och billigt". In 1971, the strongly psychedelic album Telefon was released. Heckscher and Mowinckel later also collaborated in the band Levande Livet, but as late as 1976 they appeared under the name Sogmusobil.

Unfortunately only one crazy release from them.  A lot of the music is silly ('my name is Speedy Gonzalez' starts off one song) for ex blues-based and/or psychedelic throwaway, presumably social (communist) or politically conscious driveling.

Nevertheless, the stunningly creative track called Lost Identity:



In terms of the harder-edged tracks, you couldn't beat the opener, Arabic in the Morning:



By the way they went on to put out another album under the name Levande Livet, in 1973, which disappointed me profoundly since it is only simple blues, completely uninspired songs, and the simplest type of jazz noodling, eg samba.


1 comment:

  1. Sogmusobil:

    https://krakenfiles.com/view/7CSSwyo4et/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/9z8aw6

    for those curious, here's levande

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/cvw2hi

    https://krakenfiles.com/view/PVuPzxmYvZ/file.html

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