Harvester was a strange collective of musicians from the swedish lands. they went through four different names for their project (Parson Sound, International Harvester, Harvester, and finally Trad, Gras, & Stenar). focussing on having fun, their recordings sound more like parties than the usual prog that their contemporaries were releasing, having much more in common with a drum circle than emerson, lake, and palmer. because of this, they have a much more tribal and primordeal sound to their music, and that gives them a much more spiritual feel. it really sounds like someone turned a microphone on during one of this band's drug-fueled freak outs more than an actual recording session, with strange chanting, repetetive drum and bass lines, flutes and clatter, and an air so thick with smoke that you can hear it.
this album, "Hemat," is especially ethereal, with loads of indeterminate chanting and yelping, and a definite feeling of spiritual release going on with the musicians. it sounds really cathartic and intense.
for fans of Circle, Finnish Free-Folk (like Avarus, Kemialliset Ystavat, and Anaksimandros), and Krautrock bands (whom i think may have had a certain affinity with these guys more than most prog rockers.) oh, and they also got a mention on that ever-so-pretentious nurse with wound list.
awesome sturf.
Harvester - Hemat
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Thaks!
New york minimalism/maximalism influence?
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