Änglagård

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Änglagård
General information
Genre (s) Progressive rock , retro prog
founding 1991
Website www.anglagardrecords.com
Founding members
Tord Lindman
guitar
 Jonas Engdegård
Thomas Johnsson
Anna Holmgren
Johan Högberg
Mattias Olsson
Current occupation
guitar
 Tord Lindman
guitar
 Jonas Engdegård
Keyboard
 Linus Kåse
Flute
 Anna Holmgren
Bass, bass pedal
 Johan Brand (née Högberg)
Percussion
 Erik Hammarström

Änglagård is a Swedish progressive rock group.

history

The group was founded in 1991 by Tord Lindman (vocals, guitar) and Johan Högberg (bass) with the aim of reviving the progressive rock of the 1970s .

In 1992 Änglagård released their first studio album, Hybris . This was followed by appearances in the USA and in 1994 the recording and publication of the second, purely instrumental album Epilog , which was also extremely well received.

After the band broke up in 1995, the members went their separate ways until they found each other again in 2002 - without Tord Lindman - and went on tour, during which they also had a long-only appearance in German-speaking countries in 2003, at the FreakShow Artrock -Festival in Würzburg. After that it became quiet again around Änglagård, which officially continued to exist, but only became active sporadically.

At the beginning of 2009, the band announced a re-release of the two previously recorded studio albums on their own label. The third studio album Viljans Öga was released in July 2012. In the same year the band also played concerts again, including at the NEARfest and Gouveia Art Rock Festival. Keyboardist Thomas Johnsson was represented live by David Lundberg.

In autumn 2012 the band announced an extensive line-up change: Tord Lindman returned to Änglagård as guitarist, replacing Jonas Engdegård, and Mattias Olsson and Thomas Johnsson were replaced by Erik Hammarström and Linus Kåse. In this line-up, Änglagård performed at the Night of the Prog Festival 2013 on the Loreley open-air stage .

After several concerts around the world and the release of a live album, Jonas Engdegård, a founding member of the now six-member band, returned in October 2014. Änglagård are currently working on a new album and planning various concerts.

style

The musicians of Änglagård were and are mainly inspired by progressive rock groups such as Genesis , Yes , King Crimson , Trettioåriga Kriget , Schicke Führs Fröhling , Cathedral or Yezda Urfa . This is why they mostly use original instruments from the 1970s such as the Mellotron , Hammond organ and Rickenbacker bass. With them they create a very retro-oriented sound, which is perceived as compositionally independent and extremely powerful in terms of production. A special feature of Änglagård is the “Swedish melancholy” in her sound, which is mainly created by the interplay of acoustic guitar , flute and the string sounds of the mellotron .

While Swedish vocals by Tord Lindman can also be heard on the debut album , the second and third studio albums were recorded entirely instrumentally.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Prog på svenska - Live in Japan
  SE 33 08/15/2014 (1 week)

Studio albums

Live albums

  • 1993: Mexico City 1993
  • 1993: Live Milwaukee 12/18/93
  • 1996: Buried Alive
  • 2014: Prog på svenska - Live in Japan
  • 2017: Live - Made in Norway

swell

  1. ^ "Änglagård is a hard struggling progressive rock band with irregular activities."; Archive link ( Memento from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.progrock-dt.de/neuheiten/aenglagard-alben-haben-wiederveroeffentlicht
  3. ↑ http://anglagardrecords.com/biography.html
  4. ^ Announcement of the Night of the Prog VIII ( Memento from August 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Chart discography Sweden

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