{"id":5458,"date":"2022-06-29T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:06:49","slug":"dungen-a-2017-interview-from-the-archives-new-album-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5458","title":{"rendered":"Dungen \u2013 Coming album news + a 2017 interview from the archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of their long awaited new album En \u00c4r F\u00f6r Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog<\/i>\u00a0(see news below) we then look back to this interview that MARC LE BRETON undertook with DUNGEN’s\u00a0<\/strong>Gustav Ejstes about their first foray into soundtracks \u2013 as featured in issue #67<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Dungen today announced their new album En \u00c4r F\u00f6r Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog<\/i> will be released\u00a0October 7th, 2022, via Mexican Summer. Translated to One Is Too Much And A Thousand Is Never\u00a0Enough<\/em>, Dungen\u2019s first proper studio album since 2015\u2019s Allas Sak<\/i> finds the core band of Gustav Ejstes,Reine Fiske, Mattias Gustavsson, and Johan Holmegaard now decades-deep in collaborative focus and\u00a0elevating their trailblazing psychedelia to new heights. On the album\u2019s hypnotic lead single ‘Nattens Sista\u00a0Strimma Ljus’ (‘The Night’s Last Shimmer Of Light’), guitars skip like a synth pattern over a shaggy drumbeat that sounds both like a late \u201960s blowout and late \u201980s acid-house freakout. Ejstes explains the song is about \u201cWhen the fun has come to an end and you want to start over\u201d and is out now alongside a hazy video directed by Isidor Xavier Estrada Nyqvist.<\/div>\n

The nine-track album was recorded in pieces beginning in 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with producer Mattias Glav\u00e5, who last worked with Ejstes on Allas Sak<\/i>. Glav\u00e5\u2019s creative input was crucial to the record,and helped Ejstes to challenge his preconceptions of how his own music might sound. \u201cWe\u2019d be in hisstudio, where he has all this amazing gear, and he\u2019d be encouraging me to go with every weird idea and not to feel any pressure,\u201d Ejstes says. \u201cHe would say, \u2018Let\u2019s use this rhythm box or this sample or this loop,\u2019 and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Can we do that on a Dungen record?\u2019\u201d Likewise, Ejstes\u2019 bandmates\u2014guitarist Fiskeand bassist Gustavsson, in addition to drummer Holmegaard\u2014encouraged him to push his ideas further.\u201cIt really took a lot of courage to go to the guys and play this stuff for them,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n
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While the textures might seem unusual for a Dungen record, Ejstes insists these sounds have inspired him throughout his career \u2013 even when they haven\u2019t seemed to. \u201cIf you take Mitch Mitchell, Public Enemy,and Swedish psych-organ player Bo Hansson, and you put that in a pot, that\u2019s jungle for me. It\u2019s all about the breaks,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd these layers of noise. With fuzz guitar, it\u2019s noise under control. It\u2019s the samewith turntable scratching for me \u2013 feedback and shit, it\u2019s all the same.\u201d<\/div>\n

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