History Drahk von Trip

DRAHK VON TRIP is a six piece band from Malmö, Sweden, performing progressive psychedelic acid rock. This is strongly influenced by 70's prog and spacerock with female vocals, featuring ethnic sounds, blended with expressive lyrics. The music and lyrics create various moods and a suggestive feeling, often built up through a soft and floating shape into an intensely wild and chaotic state.

The process of creating the music together starts with free form jams.

Three of the members, Göran, Mats and Ralph, have played together for around ten years in a band occasionally named "Mr. G", dealing a lot with improvisations and also working as a band supporting and performing together with improvised theater and happenings. The band felt a need of widening the musical horizon and a decision was made to find new musical soul mates.

After a while Twodox showed up and joined the band with his strange kind of instruments as playing, later on also the guitarist Micke popped up with some spacy, jazzy and trippy approach. Finally Susanne joined with her violin, flutes and dark mysterious vocals. This together with Görans' fluid and adventured drumming, Mats' spacey guitar melodies and aggressive tone, Ralph with the singing bass and sense of structural grooves formed DRAHK VON TRIP as it is today. Sometimes individually created themes, melodies and songs are blended in to the process so called 'Collective Spontaneous Real-time Composing'.

After a lot of jamming and gigs the band recorded the promo EP "IS US" in September 2004, available in two different versions. The Demo brought a lot of attention to progressive radio stations, magazines and internet sites. And then 2005 the first full length studio album "Heart & Consequence" was released - 10 songs which are hard to categorize. A folky, spacy, psych and symphonic blend using a diversity of instruments. DRAHK VON TRIP has also recorded the mysterious trip called "Major Breeze" for a selfreleased limited edition. It features two long jams (67 minutes!) from the rehearsal room in May 2006.

Additionally the band offers several recordings of jams for free on their homepage and their myspace site

Line-up:

Göran: Drum Stunts and Percussion, Physical Suffering

Susanne: Lead Vocals, Violin, Flutes, Melodic Wavering

Mats: Rhythm, Lead and 12 string Guitars, Noisy Devices & Backing Vocals

Ralph: Caterpillar Bass & Smoke Rings

Twodox: Yidaki, Didjeribone, Vintage Synthesizers, Udu, Tambura, Percussion

Micke: Rhythm, Lead, Space & Glissando Guitars

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