Alrune Rod
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Alrune Rod is a Danish psychedelic rock
band.
Alrune Rod appeared in the 1971 concert film
Skæve Dage I Thyhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145474/. The film whose title loosely translates as Stoned Days in Thy documents the Thylejren, the first rock music festival
in Denmark which took place in Thy
in 1970. Alrune Rod played at the festival, sometimes called the Danish Woodstock
, alongside contemporaries in the Danish music scene at the time to an audience of 30,000.
Rock musician and musicologist
Julian Cope
has described their first two albums as:
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
band.
Alrune Rod appeared in the 1971 concert film
Concert film
A concert movie, or concert film, is a type of documentary film, the subject of which is an extended live performance or concert by a musician ....
Skæve Dage I Thyhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145474/. The film whose title loosely translates as Stoned Days in Thy documents the Thylejren, the first rock music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
in Denmark which took place in Thy
Thy (district)
Thy is a traditional district in northwestern Jutland, Denmark. It is situated north of the Limfjord, facing the North Sea and Skagerrak, and has a population of around 50,000. The main towns of Thy are Thisted, Hanstholm and Hurup....
in 1970. Alrune Rod played at the festival, sometimes called the Danish Woodstock
Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
, alongside contemporaries in the Danish music scene at the time to an audience of 30,000.
Rock musician and musicologist
Musicology
Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
Julian Cope
Julian Cope
Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...
has described their first two albums as:
"sounding somewhere between early Pink Floyd, an emptier Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come, and PAWN HEARTS-period Van Der Graaf Generator"
Band members
- Leif Roden (b 3 March 1948) in CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
(vocals, electric bass, guitar, lyrics, composition) - Ole Poulsen (b 20 December 1950) in Copenhagen (electric guitar, guitar, vocals, mandolin, lyrics, composition)
- Tom LundenTom LundénTom Lundén is a Danish composer and music producer. Lunden was the leader and keyboardist of the flower power rock band Bifrost. His two top hits with Bifrost were Hej Maria and Det er morgen...
(b 16 March 1950) in Copenhagen (piano, organ, acc, vocals, composition) - Karsten Høst (b 14 August 1948) in FrederiksbergFrederiksbergFrederiksberg Kommune is a municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It surrounded by the city of Copenhagen. The municipality, co-extensive with its seat, covers an area of and has a total population of 98,782 making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most...
(drums, percussion) - Mikael Miller (b 8 October 1952) in GreveGreve municipalityGreve Municipality is a municipality about 21 km south-west of Copenhagen in Region Sjælland on the east coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 60 km², and has a total population of 47,773...
(el-g, g, cl, fl, v, ss, vo, komp).
Discography
- Tæl Aldrig Imorgen Med (single) (1968, sonetSonet RecordsSonet Records is a jazz record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden. It was founded in Sweden in 1956.Sonet Records was established by Sven Lindholm and Gunnar Bergström, who managed the label into the 1980s. Dag Haeggqvist, the owner of Gazell Records, became an executive of the...
) - Alrunes Rod (1969, sonet)
- Hej Du (1970, sonet)
- Alrune Rock (1971, sonet)
- Spredt For Vinden (1972, mandragoraMandrágoraFor other uses see Mandragora .La Mandrágora was a Chilean Surrealist group "officially founded" on 12 July 1938 by Braulio Arenas , Teófilo Cid and Enrique Gómez Correa . The group had met in Talca and first started exchanging in 1932...
- reissued 2002, Karma Music) - 4-vejs (1974, mandragora - reissued 2002, Karma Music)
- Tatuba Tapes (1975, mandragora)
- Alrunen Live i Aalborg (2002, Ohm records)