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Bengt Berger

aka "beche" aka Sopan Dev

About Me

I'm a drummer and percussionist with a 40-year old interest in what is now called World Music. Originally a jazz drummer, my own music has become heavily influenced by Hindustani, Karnatic and West African musics which I studied during some years in India and Ghana. If you need a label for it, how about Country & Eastern ? Which happens to be the name of our label.

In my site at beche.se you will find links to pages about some of the things I am involved in: Indian classical music, my tabla and mridangam teachers and musician friends, soundfiles, videos, scores, press material, things going on at the moment, information about recordings, links to friends and so on.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/12/2007
Band Website: beche.se
Influences:
Sounds Like: This is Chapter Seven in concert at Fasching, Stockholm in 1989. Drums: Bengt Berger, Anders Kjellberg; Basses: Anders Jormin, Sergei Muchin; Trombone: Ivo Nilsson; Saxophones: Thomas Gustafsson, Roland Keijser, Lennart Ã…berg. The opening piece is too big (111mb) for youtube and myspace so you find it at http://www.beche.se/video/C7_2.mp4Here is Telisirama by Saint Tyagaraja, an old Karnatic piece where Lennart Ã…berg is soloist. Click video for more or go to http://www.youtube.com/bengtbergerBerger Knutsson Spering in concert at Nalen, Stockholm in 2003. "Meditation over the People of Iraq". More at http://www.youtube.com/bengtberger

Record Label: Country & Eastern http://www.countryandeastern.se
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bitter Funeral Beer Band w Don Cherry and K. Sridhar: Live in Frankfurt 1982 - videos added.

From the Grammy nominated Country & Eastern album CEX09.The concert was filmed by Hessischer Rundfunk and here are clips from the first half of it. The rest will follow.More info at http://www.country...
Posted by Bengt Berger on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:52:00 PST

BIRTHDAY PARTY BAND

On august 31st we all had our birthday and we spend it at Glenn Miller Café.Unfortunately Dror Feiler and Buba had both just cancelled because of work abroad, so instead we invited Mats Öberg to play ...
Posted by Bengt Berger on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:55:00 PST

Country & Eastern on myspace

Well, due to giving up tobacco, the first half of this year has been slow and boring. Now, however the temperature is rising and this is what we have breewing for this fall: Today we are launching a m...
Posted by Bengt Berger on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:17:00 PST

STRIKE 2000 - 50 drummers video clip

The first monday in september 2000 fifty swedish percussionists met at jazzclub Fasching in Stockholm. In front of the stage was a luscious dinner table created by Bengt Carling. Having eaten, the eld...
Posted by Bengt Berger on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:08:00 PST

I switched music for you

Since 500 people have heard the four songs, I've switched them all.
Posted by Bengt Berger on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:48:00 PST

New Video: Country & Eastern Night 20061101-22 minutes-Moving Pictures+BergerKnutssonSpering

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures meets Berger Knutsson Spering at Country & Eastern Nights november 1, 2006. 22 minutes with Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, Joseph Bowie, Ralph Jones, Bengt Berger, Jonas Knu...
Posted by Bengt Berger on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:21:00 PST

Van Huygens Princip

A ten minute documentary by Birgitta Öhman about a visible concert I did with Bosse Skoglund, Roland Keijser and Ivo Nilsson in 1996
Posted by Bengt Berger on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:26:00 PST

Rena Rama video is up and running

You can now watch Bengt Berger, Palle Danielsson, Bobo Stensson and Lennart Åberg making music in 1971.
Posted by Bengt Berger on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:51:00 PST