CEX37

Cool Funeral Beer – Day 1 – The Creation of the Final Ancestor Shrine

Cool Funeral Beer or Bengt Berger


After forty years we are moving into the final parts of the music that we started in the early eighties with Bitter Funeral Beer. On Christmas Eve 2022 the first of three days of funeral music will be released in digital format. After some public rehearsals during 2021-2022 we have recorded the first part and started practise for the second. During 2023 we continue the work and hope to have the complete work ready for release on vinyl and to be performed during three consecutive days in 2024.

The album is getting a fine review in the April issue of Songlines and will be included in their sampler with the best albums of the month, called Top of the World:

Musicians and info

Lars Almqvist, trumpet
Bengt Berger, kogyil, percussion
Christer Bothén bass clarinet
Robin Cochrane, balaphone, percussion
Signe Dahlgren, saxes
Marque Gilmore, percussion
Thomas Gustafsson, saxes
Dicken Hedrenius, trombone, tuba
Peter Janson, bass
Martin Jonsson, percussion
Sir Thomas Jäderlund, saxes, bass clarinet
Göran Klinghagen, guitar
Jonas Knutsson, saxes
Sten Källman, saxes
Marianne Nlemwo Lindén, vocal, percussion
Emmanuelle Martin, vocal
Livet Nord, violin
Lise-Lotte Norelius, percussion, electronics, glockenspiel
Viktor Reuter, bass
Lisen Rylander Löve, saxes
Max Schultz, guitar
Mattias Ståhl, marimba, xylophones, glockenspiel
Staffan Svensson, trumpet
Henrik Wartel, percussion
Mats Äleklint, trombone, sousaphone, harmonica

All music by Bengt Berger.

Recorded at Dieselverkstaden, Nacka on March 30, 2022 except Shrine, recorded at Kulturhuset, Stockholm on October 23, 2022. Additional recordings at BAS, Stockholm.

Recording and mixing by Martin Jonsson.

Mastering by Claes Persson, CRP Recording. Cover and graphics by Jon Edergren, Spektra Design.

Distribution Naxos.

CEX37 Release date 2022-12-24

Thanks for support from the Swedish Arts Council

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Postponed plans

We have great plans for the second and third parts of Cool Funeral Beer. Opening dates were set for early June 2025 at the wonderful Orion Theatre where “The Bathing of the Widows” were to be presented with the big orchestra plus the great mimic artists in the house and with direction by Lars Rudolfsson. Unfortunately we were not granted any government support so these plans are kept waiting until the authorities realize the necessity of this work.

Other albums with Cool Funeral Beer or Bengt Berger

Cool Funeral Beer – Day 1 – The Creation Of The Final Ancestor Shrine

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[CEX33]

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[CEX25]

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[2018·537052]

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[CE41]

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[CEX23]

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[CE36]

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[CE18]

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[CEX15]

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[CE13]

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[CEX12]

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[CE11]

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[CE12]

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[CE09]

Live In Nürnberg 84

[CEX09]

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[CEX04]

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[CE04]

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[CEX05]

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[CE03]

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[CEX01]

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[2003·IMPALA007]

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[2001·AMCD890]

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[2001·AMCD885]

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[2001·AMCD889]

1999 Eilert Pilarm & Partybandet Live In Stockholm

[EPCD1]

Lennart Åberg: Green Prints

[1998·CAP1276]

Berger & Keijser: Off Spring

[1997·PSCD92]

Om Natten

[1997·AMCD880]

Enteli Live

[1997·AMCD738]

1996 Travelogue

[1996·ZTC-T-1]

1995 Sagan Om Ringen (lord Of The Rings)

[1995·SRSRPROF637]

Tarang

[1995·RUBCD12]

Enteli

[1994·PSCD77]

Vyer – View

[1992·CAP21426]

From Fasching With Love (swedish Jazz Live)

[1992·PSCD61]

Thums Up

[CAP21361]

Praise Drumming

[DRCD449]

Barrikadorkestern: Internationalen

[1984·URMAX 1]

Bitter Funeral Beer

[1982 ECM 1179]

Music In Sweden 7 – Alternative Instrumental Music (cap 1163)

[1980·CAP1163]

Nävgröt

[1980·MNW10F]

Anita Livstrand: Mötet

[1978·MNW 87P]

1978 Archimedes Badkar & Afro 70 Band ‎– Bado Kidogo

[1978·MNW 91P]

1977 Tre

[1977·MNW 78P]

Archimedes Badkar Ii

[1976·MMNW 62-63P]

Spjärnsvallet

[1976·MNW57P]

Archimedes Badkar ‎– Badrock För Barn I Alla Åldrar

[1975·MNW 53P]

Don Cherry: Organic Music Society

[1973·CAPRIKSLP44/50]

Rena Rama

[1973·CAPRIKSLP49]

Don Cherry: Eternal Now

[1973·SONET]

Nils Sandström: The Painter

[1972·CAP22067]

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[1972·SJR-LPS-2]

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[1972-K3]

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[1971·MNW23P]

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[1971·SONET SLP-2522]

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[1971·SLP2526]

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[1970·SONET]