Enhet För Fri Musik - Ömhet & Skilsmässa
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When someone finally gets around to writing properly about what's going on in Gothenburg right now, Enhet For Fri Musik are gonna be at the centre of that narrative. In part that's conditioned by both timing and personnel, arriving at the forefront of this new wave and consisting of a rotating cast of players from Blöd, Arv & Miljo, Cortex A9, Neutral, Oroskallan, Amateur Hour++ In a lot of ways, they are sort of both the root and the collective embodiment of all that underground creative energy. But as interesting as the How and Why is, it's the What that's most important with Enhet För Fri Musik. On a purely aesthetic level, they probably do represent a watershed fusing of everything that i like at the moment. They may even be partly responsible for it. A half-life remembering of all sorts of outsider expressions and forms, collaging the romance of folk song, New Zealand underground DIY pop abstraction, the wilfully artful orientation of Swedish improv tradition, lo-fi noise aesthetics and punk ambience, into a fluid and boundary-less mass. Mostly, the result is the realisation of a lifetime spent in the margins absorbing, collating and interpreting. As usual, there's a lot of songs here and a lot of them end way before the listeners interest in them does. Sometimes that's frustrating, sometimes it actually feels quite punk rock - you do really get the feeling they're doing only what they want, no imagined audience beyond their peers, most of whom probably play in the band at some point. And then again, there's a 20 page booklet here, the presence, not to mention content, of which is a mythologising practice, and this time they've made more copies so all the people who want it might get a chance of owning it. This is special music made by people who've found a way to be special together. Perhaps they're now becoming as aware of that as we are?
