FUREKÅBEN were a very obscure Danish Acid Folk outfit, that seem to have
been formed in 1968 around the head Hans Vinding (guitar, voices) in
Copenhagen and disbanded in 1972 without any notification. It is said
that they, as a music commune called 'Røde Rose', which later got to be
another title of their second self-titled album, have lived together and
had some sessions and recordings. As a result, they released two albums
- 'Prinsesseværelset' (1970) and 'Furekåben' (1971) - both are
currently thought as eccentric (and remarkably rare) Acid Folk gems. The
leader Hans formed Hyldemor with some of ex-FUREKÅBEN members later.
Although I cannot know that under what condition they did sessions and recordings, there is
extraordinary weird atmosphere with some religious speckles - discrete from the "real" world
methinks. Guess they always have raised their morale in a transcendental meditation or in smoke of
pot around Hans the Guru in sessions or recordings (sorry if it's not correct). Certainly it's magic
I know ... in the first track "Instrumental", male and female scat carries the sunflower song toward
the top of heaven with heightening their (and the song's) spiritual power. All instruments including
voices are completely whacked out, as if they should have been under mind-expanding condition, but
mysteriously there is something rigidly united around them. We can find just the same flavour in the
following "Mandsang", with a drunken (but comfortable) flute solo. Only for me Hans' voices can
sound something of incantation cursed (because he sang in indistinct Danish? Exactly
addiction to freak-out acidity I suggest. Even the last "Christine" can keep this weirdness in core
mind. These three incantations drug ... err ... drag on fortunately.
Even Acid Folk freaks may be divided into two - like and dislike. Cannot find any artists similar to
them easily ... and I love them of course.
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