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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
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!
Per-Arne Hognert
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! 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
Per-Arne Hognert
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 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! 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!!!!
Hal McGee
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. Leave a Reply. |
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