Memento Mori

Beställ CD-utgåvan av samlingsalbumet "Ur skymningen - 1982-1988" från Undefined Sounds.

Order the CD release of the compilation album "Ur skymningen (Out of Dusk) - 1982-1988" from Undefined Sounds.

Skrivet om "Ur skymningen"/ Written about "Ur skymningen":
"Med den här samlingen låtar från bandets hela existens påminns vi inte bara om storheten i låtar som Nu vaknar tusen själar och Detta är paradiset, vi får också anledning att omvärdera den rådande uppfattningen om vilket band som är Eskilstunas verkliga stolthet."
/"With this collection of songs from the band's whole existence we are not only reminded of the grandeur of such tunes as Nu vaknar tusen själar (The Awakening of Thousand Souls) and Detta är paradiset (This is Paradise), we may also get the opportunity to reassess the existing opinion on which band who really is Eskilstuna's pride."
Patrik Forshage, Nöjesguiden

"Albumet innehåller delar ur bandets produktion och visserligen hade en liten box med allt material varit det ultimata, men det är väl en kostnadsfråga. Den här plattan ger trots allt en utmärkt bild av mörkermännens mycket jämna och starka låtmaterial och då originalskivorna är allt annat än lätta att få tag på idag kan jag bara varmt rekommendera denna CD-utgåva."
/“The album contains elements from the band's production and certainly a small box with all the material had been the ultimate, but that’s probably a cost issue. This disc gives after all an excellent picture of the dark men's very constant and strong song material and as the original discs is anything but easy to get hold of today, I can only strongly recommend this CD edition.”
Robert Ryttman, Zero Music Magazine

MEMENTO MORI - Biography
Memento Mori was formed in Eskilstuna, Sweden in the early 1980’s. After a first year playing punk rock they began carving out their personal take on post punk: a very rhythm based music driven by the band’s excellent drummer Johan Mörén, adding extra percussion, mean guitars, sax and often with a funk bass at the core. The lyrics were in Swedish. Their debut album Jag...snäll ("Me...Kind") was released in 1983 and got a strong reception among Swedish music journalists. Sweden's biggest rock magazine of that time Schlager's readers voted Memento Mori as one of '83-year's best newcomers. In 1984 another critically acclaimed album Detta är paradiset (“This Is Paradise”) was released. It was voted fourth in Schlager's annual readers' poll regarding best Swedish album of '84. From the first album on a very intensive touring across the country and the fellow Nordic countries came about. Some music journalists even dubbed Memento Mori as “Sweden’s best live act”. In the late eighties the band went through some changes in line-up which delayed the release of their third album Våga leka (“Dare to Play”). In 1990 Memento Mori disbanded. Their albums have since become regarded as cult items and new fans have seen daylight following the revival of post punk rock in the middle of the 2000’s.

In 2007-2008 the band re-formed in its “1985-edition”, which has been regarded as the best of all its existence. A CD Ur skymningen ("Out of Dusk"), consisting of tracks from all their albums plus some unreleased material, was released in autumn 2008.
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums
Jag...snäll (Pipaluckbolaget PLP-5) 1983 (LP) (Undefined Sounds USP 30904) 2009 (re-release on mp3)
Detta är paradiset (MNW/Pipaluckbolaget MNWP 135) 1984 (LP)
VÃ¥ga leka (Frequent Frenzy FREQ LP 003) 1989 (LP)
Ur skymningen - 1982-1988 (Undefined Sounds USP 30802) 2008 (CD)
Vännerna (Undefined Sounds USP 30803) 2008 (re-release on mp3)
Singles
Spegeln/Här står vi still (Pipaluckbolaget PLS-9) 1983
Pulserande väggar/Adam och Eva (MNW/Pipaluckbolaget MNWS 84) 1983
Sol sol/Angel face/Trevande djur/Jag...snäll (MNW MNWM 11) Maxi – 1985
Som smärta som kärlek/Håll mig hårt (Lyckomix) (Frequent Frenzy FREQ 7 001) 1989
MC
Vännerna (Electric Red Audio ERA 704) – shared with Gothenburg band Camouflage - 1985

Compilations
"Svensk postpunk" - Various artists (MNW MNWCD 2034) 2007 (2-CD)
Various Swedish post punk groups. Memento Mori is represented with "Nu vaknar tusen själar" (The Awakening of Thousand Souls).
"Vi äro huliganer - punk och ny våg från Eskilstuna 1978-1984" - Various artists (Undefined Sounds USP 30905) 2009 (CD)
Various punk and new wave groups from Eskilstuna, Sweden. A live recording by Memento Mori is featured, a version of "1970 (I Feel Allright)". Also on the same compilation you’ll find a previously unreleased recording by Trick, Memento Mori's first incarnation as a punk band. Listen on Spotify!

(A longer biographical article in Swedish may be found at Tunasidan .)

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