Landberk
Encyclopedia
Landberk was a Swedish
prog
/art rock
band, characterized by the dark, sombre tone of their music. They were notable for their utilisation of the mellotron
, which was equally as important as the guitar
in their melodies. They have also recorded a cover version of No More White Horses, a song by T2
, an almost forgotten progressive rock band of the 1970s.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
prog
Progg
Progg, a contraction of the Swedish word for "progressive music" was a left-wing and anti-commercial musical movement in Sweden that had its roots in the late 1960s, and its golden age in the 1970s. It should not be confused with the English expression progressive music or progressive rock. Progg...
/art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
band, characterized by the dark, sombre tone of their music. They were notable for their utilisation of the mellotron
Mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
, which was equally as important as the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
in their melodies. They have also recorded a cover version of No More White Horses, a song by T2
T2 (band)
T2 were a British progressive rock band, best known for their 1970 album, It'll All Work Out in Boomland. It is regarded as an excellent album by the progressive rock community.-Career:...
, an almost forgotten progressive rock band of the 1970s.
Studio albums
- Riktigt Äkta, 1992
- Lonely Land (English version of Riktigt Äkta), 1992
- One Man Tell's Another, 1994
- Indian Summer, 1996