Drakkar Nowhere

Featuring members of Dungen and The Amazing, this extended family of international musicians recorded the songs that would firmly put them on the path to nowhere - Drakkar Nowhere, that is. Both Collás and Phalen took inspiration from their Swedish surroundings - in particular, the enchanted forests that surround the neighborhoods of Bagarmossen and Midsommarkransen. And given the talents and histories of the collaborating musicians, it's no surprise that the everevolving shadow of what we might broadly call Swedish psychedelia should perfume the proceedings as well. Collás and Phelan also took the recordings to New York and Los Angeles, where new surroundings and influences could intertwine into the musical flora and fauna. When in LA, the band even got a hero of theirs, unsung 70s singer-songwriter Ned Doheny, on board for Higher Now.