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 MY STORY IN BRIEFBy Peter Lindahl I was born in
Stock- holm,
Sweden in 1951. My father worked as a teacher and later on, for a
decade or two, as a
constructor of renais- sance instruments while my mother made her
living
from working as a secretary at the daily news. In the fifties and
sixties I
got two brothers, one for each decade. The family
used to spend a
lot of time by the Baltic sea, visiting various Islands of the
archipelago during the summer months and when I was very young I stayed
at my grandparents´ summer cottage on an Island way out in the
ocean, facing open
waters. I´ve always lived in close proximity of one
ocean or the other, even though the residence I share with my wife here
in the Stockholm
suburb of Bromma is nearer to the great lake called Mälaren than
to the Baltic.
When I was nine we moved to West Australia and later returned to Sweden when I was at the age of fifteen to avoid my being drafted for the Vietnam war, which Australia b  y
the year of 1966 had become increasingly
involved in. So with all this moving about I
became a bit
of a vagabond, hence keen on travelling and seeing new and
exotic places around the globe. This in turn
has
suposedly rubbed off on my music or at least parts of it, especially in
reference to
the songs of In the labyrinth.  My interest
for Oriental cultures was first initiated by a brief encounter with
Egypt as me and my family entered the Suez canal on traveling by boat
from Europe to Western Australia.
This was in 1961 when the world was still a far more exciting
place. But also the
wonders of trancending from being a shy Swedish boy to eventually
becoming a bit of a fair dincum Aussie helped change things around for
me and spur me to greater things. It was later when
we
returned to Sweden that I received a guitar from my
grandmother and I began exploring that wonderful world of music and
magic.
By 1968 I was laying down one to three tracks a day on the simple recording equipment I had in those days and I regret to say my parents must have had a lot of patience with me, for better or for worse! |
 It was in the late 60s
or early 70s that I may have started to show development of
some kind. And then I eventually met up with lots of musicians,
sub sequently finding great pleasure in the collaboration I
was
to have with others, although recording on my own remained my chief
preoccupation throughout the years and still does! Coiron
with
me to the left
One group which I performed
with towards the end of the seventies was Coiron. We were focused on South
American
'altiplano' music, which we interpreted with a combination of both
traditional and classical
instruments.
After a few years when it had turned into more of a conventional Andes
band, I quit and went on to eventually form Aladdin's
lantern (later to become In the labyrinth) and Ljungeld (i e Lightning). The latter was a trio consisting
of my
dear old friends Stefan
Ottman, Håkan Stockhaus and myself.
 Ljungeld From left to
right: Stefan
Ottman, me and Håkan Stockhaus |
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for more info on projects of my past! |
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image for pics of my
childhood!
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 Click HERE for a few of my videos on YouTube, depic- ting some of our travels to far away places! |
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