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Sjunne Ferger's Exit
Childrens Mind LP
Strangelove
- Cat No: SL106LP
- Release: 2021-04-02
- updated:2022-04-03
From a New Zealand label devoted to unearthing obscure recordings comes this Swedish synthesizer pop/progressive fusion, with echoes of the late-'70s ECM crowd.
Track List
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A1. Awakening
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A2. Romance
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A3. Night Rituale
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B1. Beginners Mind
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B2. Childrens Mind
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B3. Destiny (Alt )
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B4. Candlelight (Alt )
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From his ‘FAT’ Studio near the central Swedish town of Örebro, Sjunne Ferger crafted a small but radical legacy of genre bending music. With an open minded ‘anything goes’ attitude born from his jazz roots, compiled here are songs charting a transition from fusion beginnings via his debut 7” with group ‘Exit’ through to a more blissful synthetic sound palette. Across the album’s 7 songs Sjunne’s heady musical optimism aspired to an aesthetic that moved freely between drum machines & synths to more organic instrumentation with rich arrangements never losing sight of a light ethereal feel.
Hypnotic ambient pieces written for short film swirl amongst the electronic/electrified- unreleased versions of ‘Destiny’ and ‘Candlelight’ allude to his Mindgames LP to come, while the album culminates in the highlights ‘Night Rituale’ and ‘Childrens Mind’ -Intoxicating amalgalms of Sjunne’s influences & inspiration, they unknowingly hint at Mkwaju Ensemble and other key Japanese contemporaries and bear witness to the Swede’s deep Eastern philosophical outlook. Retaining his own unique sound throughout, ‘Childrens Mind’ is a primer for Sjunne Ferger’s ‘Mindgames’ LP reissued on Strangelove later in 2021.
Hypnotic ambient pieces written for short film swirl amongst the electronic/electrified- unreleased versions of ‘Destiny’ and ‘Candlelight’ allude to his Mindgames LP to come, while the album culminates in the highlights ‘Night Rituale’ and ‘Childrens Mind’ -Intoxicating amalgalms of Sjunne’s influences & inspiration, they unknowingly hint at Mkwaju Ensemble and other key Japanese contemporaries and bear witness to the Swede’s deep Eastern philosophical outlook. Retaining his own unique sound throughout, ‘Childrens Mind’ is a primer for Sjunne Ferger’s ‘Mindgames’ LP reissued on Strangelove later in 2021.

Drummer SJUNNE FERGER, hailed as a prodigy from childhood, started out in blues bands. Meeting Don Cherry, who was staying in Sweden in the '70s, he became devoted to jazz and then moved toward progressive sounds — these are rare recordings by the Swedish drummer SJUNNE FERGER. One of the highlights is "Childrens Mind," with its breakbeat machine rhythms and synthesizers, along with the B-side of that rare single, "Night Rituale," leading a set of cult recordings rooted in jazz and reaching into electronic music, synths, avant-garde pop and new wave. (Original Japanese text by Saito)