trad gras och stenar

uncle johnny bargas brought me back their djungens lag cd after seeing 'em in san francisco in 2003, and graham richardson taught 'em how to drink tequila shots when they played at the wreck room (r.i.p.) the following year, but these guys -- the final fruition of a floating crap game that went through incarnations as parson sound, international harvester, and harvester before settling on the moniker that means "trees, grass, and stones" in their native swedish -- have a history dating back to 1967. by the time they were touring free festivals in 1970 (as documented on djungens lag), they were purveying a form of hipi pastoralism that sounded for all the world like an acidulated third velvet underground album as well as contemporaneous german stuff. they're the subject of the 2007 documentary from moja to minneapolis, which chronicles their travels across the states (no vid from el wreck, unfortunately) and is supposedly out on ntsc dvd.