Träd, Gräs och Stenar (Trees, Grass and Stones),
once upon the time also
Pärson Sound/International Harvester
by Thomas Mera Gartz
The Bo-Anders Persson band Pärson Sound (1967-68) created a kind of minimalistic rock music circulating around small melody cells repeated over and over again, very long tunes, faster late parts, like some kind of rock ragas. Bo-Anders played the guitar, Torbjörn Abelli bass, Thomas Tidholm flute and soprano saxophone and was reciting words in a reverb unit. Arne Ericsson played a strange home made electric cello with resonance strings (and later with TG&S on electric clavinett). Urban Yman electric violin. All electric instruments and mikes went through the same valve amplifier of a home made PA consisting of four â€round radiating†speakers, which created a tremendous dispersion and power to the sound. In that time this was a very loud group. I played the drums, which Bengt Beche Berger also did, and sometimes we did it together.
