Studio

Reissue of iconic Swedish psychedelic/pop album from 1967 on LP (gatefold sleeve) plus bonus DVD in cardboard sleeve (DVD5, b&w, 30 min., English, 4:3, NTSC, region: 0) Legendary Swedish production from the same league as the Beatles’ ’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ and ’Odyssey & Oracle’ by the Zombies - a psychedelic pop masterpiece, an essential 1967 mod–freakbeat album. This edition includes promo film ’Dalamania’, produced and telecasted by Sweden’s national SVT in 1968, plus an attractive full colour 8-page booklet, 25x25cms with loads of rare memorabilia and photos.

Tages (pronounced "tah-guess") are universally known as the best sixties pop band from Sweden. They struck it big early, hitting the Swedish #1 with Sleep Little Girl in 1964! Their efforts in the psychedelic era would be their last. ’Studio’ should sit comfortably next to other masterpieces of the year 1967, a few notches closer to ’Odyssey & Oracle’ than ’Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. Thanks to the tape cuts, orchestration, harmonies, and studio tricks, it sounds like the guys got their hands on a copy of Brian Wilson's then yet unreleased ’Smile’ tapes. Certainly, anybody willing to spend enough time exploring all the rabbit holes in the Beatles’ catalogue owes themselves a trip through this marvelous record. The accompanying previously unreleased DVD of ’Dalamania’ was produced by Swedish national TV, SVT and shows the Tages on the height of their psychedelic career. This little piece of rock history appears to be such a thing as the Swedish version of the UK Beatles movie, ’Magical Mystery Tour’. Since its original broadcast in 1968, ’Dalamania’ has remained unnoticed on the shelfs of SVT. First time on DVD, ever.