Music!

In an earlier life, I played guitar in a band in our church, called Nathanael. This started shortly after I moved to Linköping, and we kept it up for a couple of years. Eventuelly, some of us got married and had kids, so it was hard to spend as much time practicing as we had done earlier. But before the band fell apart, we decided to make a recording of all our songs. This was all done on analog mixers and an open reel, multi-track tape recorder. In the end, we mixed it down to stereo and made some cassette tapes.

Many years later, upon finding one of those cassettes, I took the time to digitize it. So the audio quality leaves a lot to be desired. But even so, it worked out surprisingly well, as you can hear in some of the tracks below. Most lyrics are in swedish, but the music is universal!

Välkommen hit. Voice track deliberately like an old telephone (although I don’t recall why).

Built on the rock! This was our band’s slogan, so it became something of a title song.

Djupt i ditt innersta. One of my personal favorites. Beautiful vocals by Göran L.

Makt utav kärlek. Vocals by Göran and Stephan.

Du är full av liv. A true masterpiece by Stephan (on piano), with Göran on violin and vocals. Karl-Anders oustanding on bass guitar here too!

Du kanske inte fattar. I recall that we always had trouble getting the tempo of this song the way we wanted. Interesting mix of styles. Tomas Sjödin as special guest-star on vocals.

Room 335 (L. Carlton). I recall how Stephan spent hours on nailing the electric piano solo on this one. Guitar solo by Yours Truly.

As those songs were written many, many years ago, I don’t really recall exactly who wrote what. But the vast majority of the music and some lyrics were written and arranged by the very talented Stephan Forkelid. Some of the songs and lyrics were written by Göran Lagergren. Eva Flodhammar, Lennart Berg and several others contributed as well, but my memory is a bit hazy here. The exception being “Room 335”, which is a Larry Carlton cover.

The guys that make an appearance (no, there were no gals in this band) are myself on guitar and some percussion, Karl-Anders Falk on bass guitar, Stephan Forkelid on piano and some vocals, Göran Lagergren on guitar, vocals and violin, Anders Glemsjö on drums (best drummer I’ve ever played with!), Danne Linghammar on keyboard (also our sound egineer).

In case you like what you hear, I made a ZIP containing all 17 songs, which you can download below. Enjoy!

All the songs in a ZIP file