With just drums, bass and sax, Swedish instrumental trio Kriget make one hell of a racket. This month for our mixtape they've picked 17 tracks from artists and genres that inspire them. Flowing from free jazz and avant pop to rock and techno, from Gesaffelstein and Disclosure to D.A.F and Iceage amongst others, this mixtape mirrors their own raw, electrifying, frantic and hypnotic sound.
Stockholm based avant-garde trio Kriget took us by storm at the end of last year. Following the release of their album Dystopico in November, Kriget dropped the 7″ single ‘Holy Mountain’ backed with B-side ‘Aghori Diet’.
The outfit of Christoffer Roth, Gustav Bendt and Per Nordmark had previously offered a visual accompaniment to the electrifying single ‘Holy Mountain’, and now the powerful and frantic B-side ‘Aghori Diet’ has also been given the visual treatment. According to the threesome, the video “was shot at family dinner around Christmas”. Here it is.
Last week we told you Sweden’s Kriget had a video in the works to accompany the excellent and electrifying single ‘Holy Mountain’, lifted from their recently released album Dystopico. The trio have just unleashed the video, a slightly unsettling and weird effort, directed by Fredrik Joelson. Speaking about video, Fredrik said it shows “a time honoured ritual celebrating and appeasing the approaching dark season [in it] a nuclear family introduce their Alpha male to the secret meaning of the five elements.” Watch it below.
‘Holy Mountain’ is out now digitally and a physical 7″ edition will follow in the new year via The Control Group.
Hot on the heels of their recently released album Dystopico, Swedish avant-garde trio Kriget, are releasing today a new digital single, ‘Holy Mountain’, via The Control Group. The single, backed with the B-side ‘Aghori Diet’, will have a physical 7″ release in January.
“With just bass, drums and a furious saxophone”, the trio of Christoffer Roth, Gustav Bendt and Per Nordmark, “take inspiration from pioneers in the margins of pop”, as the press release explains. Some of their influential outfits include Cybotron, DAF, Peter Brötzmann, James Chance and Ornette Coleman.
A video for ‘Holy Mountain’ is the works. Whilst we wait for it drop, be sure to listen to the frantic and fierce single below.
Here’s the mad video that accompanies the excellent and frantic ‘Sleeping with Buddha’, off