Relix Music Magazine, Wednesday, 08 January 2003

"Artists you should know about: Our fearless Mick Skidmore has tread the paths of musical innovation once more and culled the best new sounds which have danced across his desk.

6. HALMSTAD, SWEDEN
SCANDINAVIAN WAKEUP CALL
Mr. Morning is a surprisingly good European jamband that formed in the west of Sweden a few years back with the motto "Organic music made by real people." Listening to their album Furry and Fine, it's obvious that they were initially inspired by West Coast legends such as the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service in their late '60s heydays, but they have equally embraced the passion and sense of adventure of current jambands and champion the cause of Widespread Panic and Phish in Europe. The band's vocalist, Ola Kytta,imparts a blues edge to the band's loping, impro-visational- based songs and brings to mind a mellower Pigpen. Furry and Fine (Taxim) was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs. The 13-minute "Straight Line" and the 22-minute suite "Furry and Fine Jam" (which incorpo-rates Zappa's "Willie the Pimp") are both impressive. All songs are in English. Mr. Morning plays throughout Sweden and Germany and is often a fixture at European Deadhead conventions, but this is not a cover band-just five guys with a passion for improvisation-based rock."

Read more about mr.morning and the Furry and Fine album at
Taxim Records, where you also can buy it, of course. If you're
from sweden, you can buy the CD direct from us.
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