COOL FUNERAL BEER 2 – The Bathing of the Widows
Bengt Berger or Cool Funeral Beer
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“After a year of recording and mixing the first piece from the second Cool Funeral Beer album is finally here…. and it is monumental!“
GAHU 2025 is released on October 31, 2025
As you might recall COOL FUNERAL BEER – DAY 1 – THE CREATION OF THE ANCESTOR SHRINE received abundant praise when it was released in 2022.
DAY 2 has been delayed as the government did not grant us any funding at all, even though we had complete plans for staging it in the wonderful Orion theatre in Stockholm this last June together with mime artists, lights, sound, costumes and all.
So, due to slow and hard work with recording and unpaid work by all of us involved, we are now ready to release the first piece from the Day 2 album. It’s a very big piece that has taken us more than a year to record and mix but we are very satisfied with Gahu 2025 that the first piece is named. We hope to have the next piece for the album ready early in 2026.
Cover photo by Tomas Gidén:
Musicians
Soloists:
Thomas Gustafsson, Göran Klinghagen, Lisen Rylander Löve, Signe Dahlgren, Livet Nord
Musicians:
Lars Almkvist, trumpet; Bengt Berger, percussion; Robin Cochrane, balaphone, percussion; Signe Dahlgren, tenor sax; Marque Gilmore, percussion; Thomas Gustafsson, soprano sax; Dicken Hedrenius, trombone; Peter Janson, bass; Martin Jonsson, percussion; Sir Thomas Jäderlund, alto sax, bass clarinet; Göran Klinghagen, guitar: Jonas Knutsson, soprano-, alto- and baritone saxes; Sten Källman, soprano- and baritone saxes; Marianne Nlemwo Lindén, percussion; Livet Nord, violin; Lise-Lotte Norelius, percussion; Viktor Reuter, bass; Lisen Rylander Löve, tenor sax; Max Schultz, guitar; Mattias Ståhl, marimba, harmonica; Staffan Svensson, trumpet; Henrik Wartel, percussion; Mats Äleklint, trombone, tuba, harmonica
Credits
Recorded in Stockholm by Martin Jonsson and Petter Berndalen; in Gothenburg by Maurice Mogard.
Mixed by Jonas Knutsson with assistance from Bengt Berger, Lise-Lotte Norelius and Micke Emsing.
Mastered by Claes Persson, CRP Recordings
GAHU 2025 SEWQY2500401
Cover photo by Thomas Gidén
Graphic design by Jon Edergren, SPEKTRA Design
Distribution Naxos
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