^^^ Svenska Kaputt are great, the first record is a firm favourite of mine. Some stunning bass playing on that record, a real lesson in restraint from all the musicians. There’s no youtube clips of them at all though! Crazy. I met Jonas recently and thanked him from the bottom of my heart for his wonderful playing.
Nanamour has nailed on some great picks, you have great taste! Trad Gras och Stenar forever! That Terje Rypdal footage is great isn't it? Lovely Bass VI.
I’m going to avoid just listing Dungen tracks as it could take over, so…here's a selection of my favourite Scandinavian jazz/pysch/prog/Progg/rock tracks:
Jan Johansson “Visa från Uranmyra” - possibly the most understated and beautiful albums of all time. A fascinating blend of jazz, blues and ancient Scandinavian folk melodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2D5HlKLh34
Baby Grandmothers “Being is More than Life” - the king of all Swedish fuzz guitar tracks. Where it all began for my Kenny Hakkansson obsession (later of Mecki Mark Men, Kebnakaise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH7x3BxqfNE
Mecki Mark Men “Running in the Summerlight” - full album, can’t find the individual track I want. One of my favourite albums with an all time favourite track “Future on the Road”, check out the full-on spring reverb crash Krautrock outro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBRKI2GiK4
Arbete Och Fritid “Petrokemi (det kan man into bada i)” - blown out Progg. Amazing tune to drive to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HpSpcrzMoo
Tasavallan Presidentti “Struggling For Freedom” - just a beautiful track with the great Jukka Tolonen on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iZoB5Mffgo
Tasavallan Presidentti “Introduction - You’ll be back for more” - opening track of this album. The groove it settles into should be rife for sampling. Ridiculous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZr_VYg6vpg
Bo Hansson “Leaving Shire” - Bo’s guitar playing on this is really underrated, the whole record is superb. I love working to this one, I get loads done, it really focuses the mind. On the right side of Prog (not quite Progg!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro
Fläsket Brinner “Bosses Låt” - superb instrumental, there’s a great version that features on the “Fest på Gärdet“ live album from 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp908QvhfQY
Charlies “Kinda Hurtin’” - rare YLE footage of this psych club-banger with added sax. From the album titled "Buttocks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8uqMXh1vZo
Kebnakaise “Kommunisera” - some wonderful rhythm section interplay on this, and more Kenny Hakkansson guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi9aEEY4vI8
Terje Rypdal "Keep it Like That - Tight" - my favourite Terje Rypdal tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mskU0IWiE68
Charlie & Esdor "Fuck the Cops" - proper protest freak-out Progg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BihtTpOvtBE
Horisont “Visa Vagen” - if you’re going to do this, do it like this! Nice surprise in the outro, some lovely playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qwKM2wR2oA
ST Mikael “Mother is Calling” - I really can’t handle the vocals, but I do have a soft spot for this stuff. Reine on bass too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFFyu6SFIU
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra "Adimiz Miskindir Bizim" - the original is great but this cover takes it on further. Beautiful. Perfectly highlights the influence of Turkish music on a lot of European and Scandinavian music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSWvnUJzdAc
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra "Dokuz SekiEsmerim" - has to be a precursor to "Franks Kaktus" on Allas Sak. Another crazy Reine solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcyqkIR34z0
Trad Gras Och Stenar “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” - Way ahead of its time. The groove they settle into at 7:30, just sublime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyXf2H7yfuc
International Harvester “Sommarlaten” - wonderfully woozy kommune Progg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5VvQOXf4_o
Algarnas Tradgard “Saturnus Ringar” - full on cerebral prog. The album veers off into sound collage and field recording territory at times which is a welcome break from all the fuzz guitar stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTv8OIGjIT8
The Amazing “Fryshusfunk” - all their albums are superb. This one of their last record is a real highlight. More Reine freak-out guitar on the outro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2draqMdi_k
The Amazing “The Fog” - a beautiful recording, those drums!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSrynIy79iY
…and a bit of my personal Dungen recorded Reine-face-melting highlights:
Dungen “Samtidigt”(Full Version) - the full instrumental from Dungen 4. Fooking mind-bending guitar playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ_H3HjsX2E
Dungen “Mon Amour” - more face-melting Mecki music. The outro when it drops to the Rhodes at 5.30: heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDP4j4yhme4
Dungen “Sol Och Regn” - early Dungen track with one of the first (I think) contributions from Reine. Beautiful track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apxo2SBdaOo
Dungen “Du E för Fin för Mig” - now I personally think that the outro guitar solo is one of the heaviest pieces of guitar committed to record in the past 20 years. Our drummer played this track as he signed the marriage certificate at his wedding ceremony, and he purposefully left the outro playing, of course we were all head banging and the families were just like…what the heck are you doing, turn it off! It was such a great moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgIdJrMoFCE
With regard to Reine, and forgive me as I've written a similar post on here in the past and realise I come across like a real sycophant (bear with us - his playing just means a lot to me!), but I've been lucky enough to meet him on a few occasions and lent him my amp recently when they came to the UK. I’ve never been entirely happy with my Super Reverb, and of course he made it sound like Thor's Hammer. I'll never sell it now. He’s a veritable mine of information, and a very humble and insightful chap. I can't express how much his playing has shaped the way I view the guitar, it saved me from a real rutt back in 2006, and led to the formation of my current band in a round-a-bout sort of way. What the studio recordings don't always capture (they do, but not the 3D-ness of hearing it blasting into your face) is the pure intense energy he has, he could destroy the guitar at any minute. His struggle and fight to get his sound perfected is part of his playing, its all about the struggle. I love the fact he’s only ever had one guitar, people keep telling him to get a spare, but that thing is basically part of him. Whats even more crazy is that some of the early stuff, notably Ta Det Lungt, was recorded in Gustav’s living room, with all the guitars going through a POD into a Korg digital workstation. Just shows you don’t need all the gear…
If there's one live clip of Dungen that gets it across, its this rough camera phone footage from Boston. As with nearly all bands, the usual official pro-filmed festival footage never capture a band at their best, and some real gems are to be found from intimate club gigs and late night drunken freakouts. Its proper "Mecki" music, his guitar is on the edge of falling apart, it cuts out a few times, but the groove is maniacal, and its so exciting and edgey, its Hendrix and Karoli and forests and fjords all rolled into one huge heap of stream of pure consciousness, so inventive. I love when it he turns into the amp and just plays his heart out. Check out the feedback he gets at exactly 4.40 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4RjX4yiLc
...and if you were in any doubt that he's the Hendrix risen again and raised by wolves next to a fjord, check out this footage from around 19 minutes in, from what was obviously a very difficult gig for them, so at this point they are just letting go, obviously having monitor trouble at one of those "urban" pop-up stages, but the ending, just listen to that guitar sound! Fucking hell. The whole thing is shaking. You can hear the tremolo springs groaning and creaking at around 20:30 minutes, just like you can on footage of Jimi when he's freaking out at full volume. No one comes close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUyk8npQSk
...and he can do the light with the heavy too, stunning solo at 2:50 on "Akt Dit" on the latest KEXP session here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITESCBm1-E
I could go on and list all the top live footage from youtube, there's some insane stuff on there...sometimes when the wife is out, I'll treat myself to some fancy artisan beer and just binge on live footage on youtube through my TV, ahhh bliss...