International Harvester

This band is the second incarnation of the Swedish late 60's psychedelic musical collective, which started as PÄRSON SOUND, and evolved as TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENAR trough this second phase of their career, which was inspired by the American minimalist composer TERRY RILEY. The name change was innovated by Bo Ander Persson, and it was taken from a name of American company producing agricultural machines. In year 1968 they released the album "Sov Gott Rose-Marie", which was published by the Finnish record label Love Records. This album combined psychedelic rock, folk elements, jazzy improvisations, political statements and natural soundscapes, creating a record fitting logically to the maturing of the group's musical vision. Before the band changed to TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENAR they also released album "Hemat" with a shortened band name HARVESTER. The spontaneous music of this group was really ahead of their time, and anybody interested of early chaotic krautrock should check out their records, which have now been re-released as CD's with interesting long jams as bonus tracks.