Package from Per-Arne Hognert, Xmas 2018 Edition!

12/16/2018

Christmas came early, as a package from our good friend from Sweden, Per-Arne Hognert, arrived in the mail on December 14th!

Included was a spooky one-of-a-kind collage with a handwritten letter on the back, as well as his latest CD, BONG WITCH.

With a title like that, you would think it would be one of those Sabbath-worship "stoner doom metal" bands like Electric Snoop Wizard or EyeLoveDogs or REO WeedDragon or Willie NelSunn O))), right?

Nah, only a few tracks have that thick, sludgy bass guitar (or is it just a regular six-string guitar tuned to drop z?) tone.

What we have here is actually a decent variety of genres! Mostly midi-sounding, but there's nothing wrong with that! Many of these tracks have kind of a krautrock vibe going, and wouldn't sound too out of place in a 70s or 80s Italian horror movie! One song even reminded me of Pat Benatar for some reason...

I shouldn't leave out the album artwork either: the cover is black and white, but printed on green paper, so it's really black and green. Type O Negative would be proud.

All in all, the ooky spooky contents of this great package complement the holiday season all too well. Thank you, Per-Arne!

Happy Mother's Day, pilgrims! Hail Santa! FUCK BONGUS!

12 Comments

Dylan Houser

I started recording "noise music" in early 2004, completely unaware of any "scenes" or other individuals doing this sort of thing. A lot of lo-fi recordings on a portable tape player, oftentimes guitar or bass feedback drone and delay.

In 2008, I started putting out my own releases. I had by then given up on being in any rock bands with other people and stuck to improvised solo recordings on portastudios. Between then and 2011, I think only dozen people had heard any of my releases. And then I started Hell Garbage, where I started connecting with people a lot more.

At the end of 2012, I played my first Noise show, at St. Pete Noise Fest 5. I originally only did it on a whim and had no intention of playing live much after that. Lo and behold, the set had a good enough reception to enable me to seek out and play even more.

Fast-forward to June 2014, where I had booked my own gig for the first time. Uncle Lou's in Orlando had dates available, and again on a whim, I took a shot at booking. It went well enough, surprisingly good turnout for a Wednesday night.

2 years later, I moved into a house in Lakeland. Initially because it was within walking distance of my workplace...but a recent show fell through and I thought "why don't we just move the show here? As long as it's over by a certain time...I mean there's plenty of parking space..." The show was a success and nobody complained!

AND THEN MY MIND SPLOT OPENNNN

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Per-Arne Hognert

12/17/2018 11:47:33

You are very welcome, Dylan! :)

Hal McGee

12/17/2018 11:49:39

Hello P-A!

12/17/2018 17:24:09

Hi Hal! You can expect a similar package to show up in your mailbox soon.

Hal

12/17/2018 17:46:25

I am looking forward to it, P-A!

Aimee Naworal link

12/17/2018 12:49:37

That collage is awesome and the album artwork reminds me of the movie Haxan <3 ^*^ I shall take a listen. :D

12/17/2018 17:31:13

Thanks Aimee for your kind words! The cover photo I "borrowed" from a local newspaper article about the history of "påskkärringar" (roughly meaning "Easter witches"). I believe it's a very old photo. We never celebrated Halloween over here until very recently but we had witches around Easter instead. Häxan is a very cool movie in my opinion.

Adam J Naworal

12/17/2018 18:11:44

Great collage, Per-Arne! I'll be listening to this with Aimee when she gets home :D

William Davison link

12/17/2018 21:32:39

Thanks for sharing this Dylan and great sounds and images Per-Arne! Bong Witch is a fun mix of Dungeon Synth, Stoner Metal, and horror soundtracks a la Goblin and John Carpenter. Thoroughly enjoyable!

Rafael González

12/18/2018 12:14:51

¡Hola amigos! Great stuff, as always!

James Peele link

12/19/2018 11:22:13

P.A.H.!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting this Dylan! Perhaps this is the motivation I need to start doing more mail art in 2019. Sweden is victorious like snow dog from that old Rush song!!!!

:)

12/21/2018 13:53:07

I purchased a download of Bong Witch a few months ago, but it was fun re-visiting it right here on EC: I listened to it in the streaming audio Bandcamp player, with Dylan's blog post page open in my browser. It sounds great! It's a really good album, P-A! And Dylan, thanks a lot for sharing these items with the EC readers.

Thomas Park

12/22/2018 15:41:22

Looks like a really cool package and fun sounds.

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