- To Our Rescue -



Braun Raga






Sleeping Katla
Katla is the biggest, as yet dormant volcano on Iceland. Its ominous presence, as with Yellow stone park, Krakatau, Vesuvius, St Helens and other well known volcanos speaks of catastrophic things to come, hopefully way into the future. However, the name Katla also refers to a




To Our Rescue
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The lyrics of this song depict the escallating problems  brought  about by global warming as a






Ray Of Hope


Sanctus




The Black Plague




Vegetable Man

Vegetable man was one of approximately a hundred interpretations made for a CD series of this legendary long lost early Pink Floyd song written by Syd Barrett. 
'The Vegetable Man Project' is a six CD-set complemented with a one-sided 10" single featuring  60  different 10-second  excerpts  of 





Waiting For A Miracle – part 1



Santa’s Gone Fishing
Maybe this year Santa Claus prefers to go fishing instead of faithfully delivering his precious parcels, who knows!





Ukraine Burning


The title of this instrumental piece centered around  a  recurring  theme  played  mainly  on




Mr Minister




Gondwana

Gondwana was a super landmass constituted of the continents as we know them today before they decided to wander off in different directions. So this is a homage to  the old  Earth




A Q Blues


Waiting For A Miracle – part 2

This is roughly  the same song  as Waiting  for a

miracle - part 1  with  lyrics  added  in  the



Goa Goodbye


Braun raga plays partly on Peter's Braun razor which kicks off both this song and the entire album while the name Braun also plays on Hitler's ever faithful girlfriend Eva Braun but also on such daily routines as having a close shave.
Hidden among the sound effects in the beginning is Hitler himsel holding one of his more passionate speeches before the raging crowds.

Stefan Lakatos & Stefan Ottman: Choir; Håkan Almkvist: Sitar; Peter Lindahl: Choir, quena, per- cussion, keyboards, razor and FX; Marcos Chagallo: Violin

Written & produced by P Lindahl
Illustration by Niklas Lindahl







fictional  dragon from the  children's  book 'The Brothers Lionheart' written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, which is why a dragon like monster once drawn by Niklas Lindahl was chosen to represent this track.

This recording is based on a synthesizer version made by Niklas in the 90s using his as template for building up a new arrangement, hence adding both electric and acoustic instruments played by members of In The Labyrinth.

Peter Lindahl: Acoustic & electric guitar, bass, mellotron, keyboards, viola da gamba, daf, percussion, quena, zither, mandolin &soundeffects
Håkan Almkvist: Sitar
Sven-Ingvar Ahlin: Barytone sax
Marcos Chagallo: Violin
Robert Eklund: Oud

Produced by P Lindahl
Written by Niklas Lindahl
Pencil drawing by Niklas Lindahl



side effect of human activities on this planet. The increasing amount of green house emissions is steadily increasing when it should have been the other way around. So the question is if God will come to our rescue and clean up this mess for us while the entire world is just sitting and waiting for a miracle to happen.

Stefan Lakatos: Trimba
Jano Topan Sajtan Vega:  Jarango&zampoña
Peter Lindahl: Lead & background vocals, mellotron, keyboards, viola da gamba, acoustic guitar & percussion
Marcos Chagallo: Violin
Håkan Almkvist: Bass, Indian tabla& sitar
Helena Selander: Background vocals

Written & produced by P Lindahl

Ink drawing by P Lindahl




This text was a direct translation of a poem written by Israel's former prime minister Shimon Peres conveying a message of peace and consiliation to the Middle East. Initially the idea was to have narration in Arabic spoken on top of the music but this was finally left out.

Produced by P Lindahl

Jano Topan Sajtan Vega: Beatbox
Håkan Almkvist: Indian tabla& acoustic guitar
Peter Lindahl: Saz, viola da gamba, electric guitar, 6 & 12-string acoustic guitar, bass, sopranino recorder, keyboards & percussion
Helena Selander: Vocal improvisation
Robert Eklund: Oud

Written by P Lindahl/ S Andersson
Painting by Niklas Lindahl



The music of Sanctus was composed by Stefan Ottman as far back as the early 70s with lyrics partly based on a mideaval chant. In 2021 it was finally recorded together with Stefan's daughter Tuva Wedberg adding her voice as part of the choral arrangement along with Peter.


Produced by P Lindahl
Written by Stefan Ottman

Tuva Wedberg: Choir
Peter Lindahl: Lead vocals, choir, viola da gamba, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, keyboards & percussion


Ink drawing by Peter Lindahl


This song was inspired by Murnau's legenday vampire movie Nosferatu from 1922 but also to some extent by Werner Herzog's version of the same theme filmed in 1979.
The Black plague also appeared on a compi- lation in 2005 called Peace Frog Conquer The World, so this is a remastered and partially re-edited version of that recording.

Written by Peter Lindahl / Stefan Andersson
 Produced by P Lindahl

Marcos Chagallo: Violin
Peter Lindahl: Lead & background vocals, choir, electric guitar & bass, mellotron, keyboards, drum programming, percussion & soundeffects
Håkan Almkvist: Sitar
Helena Selander: Choir

Drawing by P Lindahl



the song all spliced together to form one continuous track. Behind this vast project was the Italian label Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati (led by Dario Antonetti) and Yellow Shoes. This project went on between 2002 and 2009 with the intention to reach one thousand versions but eventually it was decided that one hundred would do.

This is a partially re-mixed version of the original recording specially prepared for this album.

Produced by P Lindahl

Music & words: Syd Barrett
Arranged by P Lindahl


Helena Selander & Natalie Knutzen: Background vocals
Peter Lindahl: Vocals & background vocals, saz, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, mellotron, viola da gamba, shannai, keyboards, drum programming &
percussion
Håkan Almkvist: Indian tabla

Illustration by P Lindahl





The title 'Waiting for a miracle - part 1' implies
that humanity is just sitting around waiting for God or whoever to come and take care of the environmental issues we have created.

The recording itself grew as a tag at the end of Vegetable man and builds partly on the same theme.

Helena Selander & Natalie Knutzen: Choir
Peter Lindahl: Choir, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, mellotron, bansuri, viola da gamba, drum programming & percussion
Håkan Almkvist: Indian tabla
Marcos Chagallo: Violin

Written & produced by P Lindahl
Drawing by P Lindahl




This cut, which builds on a wide array of inst- ruments ranging  from Turkish saz and mellotron to Celtic harp and percussion but also a small choir fronted by Helena & Peter, was initially released in 2006 on a rather obscure little compilation by a label called Lost frontier, though that was an earlier, yet not so developed embryonic version of the song. The title given to this compilation was 'Christmas sampler 2006'.

Helena Selander: Choir
Robert Eklund: Celtic harp & ukelele
Peter Lindahl: Choir, mellotron, keyboards, saz, quena, baroque travers flute, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, drum programming, percussion &soundeffects
Jano Topan Sajtan Vega: zampoña
Marcos Chagallo: Violin

Written & produced by P Lindahl
Illustration by P Lindahl




acoustic guitar and viola da gamba  depicts  the  madness  of  the current situation in Ukraine. Initially this was the finale part of a P Lindahl song called 'En strimmahopp' (in English, A ray of hope) which once emanated from a ballad called Choral for John Lennon. But later on only the tag was used as a song on its own, initially with soundeffectscentered around the civil war in Syria, but as time flew and another even more ghastly war broke out, other FX were added instead to adapt to the new scenery.

Written & produced by P Lindahl
Cristina Fuentes: Choir
Peter Lindahl: Viola da gamba, acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, mellotron & soundeffects

Painting by Niklas Lindahl




This is a message to a fictive (or maybe not so fictive) fraudulent politician endulging in luxury escorts while trying to cover up for himself as the scancals keep escalating.

Helena Selander: Lead  and also background vocals
Håkan Almkvist: Bass,  Indian tabla& sitar
Peter Lindahl: Acoustic & electric guitar, keyboards, mellotron, mandolin, saz, santur, viola da gamba, drum programming, percussion, background vocals & sound effects
Cristina Fuentes: Background vocals
Jano Topan Sajtan Vega: zampoña


Written & produced by P Lindahl

Drawing by P Lindahl





hundreds of millions of years before the industrialized world of today. This song was under development during at least 25 years undergoing more musical face lifts than any one can remember but finally ending in this version which mainly spins around Stefan Lakatos percussive instrument trimba, Håkan Almkvist's bass line and Peter's mulit-textured arrangement.
Stefan Lakatos: Trimba
Håkan Almkvist: Electric bass & sitar
Peter Lindahl: Choir, acoustic &electic guitar, mandolin, santur, mellotron, quena, keyboards, percussion & sound effects
Jano Topan Sajtan Vega: Jarango
Styrbjörn Bergelt: Bowed harp & kantele
Helena Selander: Choir

Written & produced by P Lindahl

Painting by Niklas Lindahl




The lyrics of this song are about political leaders and tyrants but also about religeous fundamentalism leading to oppression while the lyrics also take a stand against actions of intollerance and  hatred  such as the  burning of the Koran and other holy scriptures.
The recurring oriental main theme played on sitar borrows itself from the album starter Braun raga whereas the mid section leans more on west world rock ballads.

Marcos Chagallo: Violin
Håkan Almkvist: Sitar & Indian tabla
Peter Lindahl: Lead & background vocals, narration, acoustic guitar, bansuri, viola da gamba, keyboards, mellotron & percussion.

Written & produced by P Lindahl

Painting by Niklas Lindahl




coda at the end and with a different more upbeat arrangement.
Hidden somewhere in the midst of it all is a death threatening speech by Wladimir Putin while Håkan (on E-bow) and Peter take turns on playing lead guitar before Peter's viola da gamba takes over.

Helena Selander & Natalie Knutzen: Choir
Peter Lindahl: Vocals, first lead guitar, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, viola da gamba, saz, mellotron, bansuri, percussion &soundeffects
Håkan Almkvist: Second lead guitar
Wladimir Putin: Speech


Written & produced by P Lindahl

Drawing by P Lindahl











A rather sad but lovingly beautiful goodbye to Goa (in India) where Håkan and his Eva spent many winter months back in time but where also Peter and his wife Carina have been on a couple of occasions. This is a raga built on a North-Indian Hindustani scale. And the sound effects were recorded on location in various parts of India.

Håkan Almkvist: Sitar
Peter Lindahl: Viola da gamba (solo & bordun) & soundeffects recorded on location in India

Produced by P Lindahl

Written by Håkan Almkvist & Peter Lindahl

Painting by Niklas Lindahl