I remember back in 2012 when I heard that Angalgard released a new album after 20 years or so, I was sceptical. That was because their 90s music was among the best the prog genre has ever offered, and also because most bands that return after such a long hiatus don't manage to live up to their glorious past. But Viljans Oga was not only the album of the year, but one of the best albums of the decade in my opinion. Simply fantastic.
I listened to Anglagard for the first time when I was 16. This came out when I was 18. I'm 29 now, and yet to discover anything as shocking as Anglagard was to me back then
Increiblemente hermoso este álbum, tremendamente complejo eso si, hay que darse el tiempo para lograr recibir cada emocion que puso Anglagard al componer estas 4 piezas!!!! Sin duda que me lo compro apenas tenga el dinero !!!!!!!!!!!
Truly not a dull moment. This is the best album in not only prog but of all genres in 2012. I can't wait to see them play this live now - it's a priority! Thankyou Anglagard!!!
I keep coming back to this. It's like listening to classical compisitions with modern instruments. This is some album.. amazing! The use of Harmony, dissonance, breaks, loud/soft, the way every instrument appears to play a different tune but still manages to put it all together in a coherent song somehow. Absolutely jaw-dropping and mind-boggling stuff!
I used to listen to this album every week when i was traveling to my work, in the countryside, at night on a bus, until i fall asleep... felt soooooo good! S2
Ah voilà du prog! et non du pseudo-prog que l'on entend ici et là! J'ADORE!! Les gars l'ont l'affaire... Quel mariage avec la flûte, ça me rappel la magie de celle dans Maneige. Espérons que ce groupe pourra influencer avec leurs structures prog les musiciens qui voudront s'aventurer dans ce genre.
Hearing this for the first time tonight 10:00 pm. My mind is completely blown!!!! Thanks a lot my friend for what i know will turn into years of pleasure.
WOW...I cannot wait to hear and see these guy's live for myself on CTTE 2015 !!!! I always judge great Prog Bands by their live shows. Sometimes too many tricks of the trade go into making these types of CDs, albums, tapes.....but if you can pull this off...LIVE...then for me...it's MUSIC HEAVEN..!!!!! i marvel at the talent that these top of the line players can produce !! Don't ever stop making music, PLEASE !!! New Fan....LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!
I won't forget in July 2012 the news of a new Änglagård album, I was in total disbelief. It was because exactly a decade before (2002-'03) they reunited, played a few shows, and then disappeared, and then when they reunited again, I would have felt they would go the same fate as in '03, but instead they stuck around and recorded a new album and in July '12 I bought both the CD and the black vinyl edition (I didn't have luck to get the clear vinyl edition, and it was more expensive anyways). The LP edition was different as it was a double LP set that plays at 45 rpm! It's everything I expected from this group, hard to believe the 18 year gap between their last studio album (Epilog), it's like they never left.
Podría adjetivar con innumerables palabras la belleza de este álbum que indefectiblemente contiene climas que agasajan al alma. Aconsejo escucharlo en un sofá muy cómodo y con la luz apagada.
What a great return by Änglagård after so many years !!! Superb album !!!! My personal fav from this band is their previous album ("Epilog") but perhaps this is better !!
I was so tired of prog when this album came out that I didn't give it a chance... after 2 years I kinda recharged my batteries so here I am where I left, and it sounds incredible
I can tend to get listener fatigue from the progressive stuff as well. For that matter I get it if I stay in one place too long with any one style. I can get very tired of my own composition as well. There has been one piece I have been struggling with to try and find the right instrumentation and the timing. What year is this band from? Where are they from? And that album cover. It is intriguing. I almost cannot stop looking at it.
yeah for me it was like 4 years straight of nothing but prog with a little jazz and some other types of music but mainly prog, so by 2012 I was like... just done with it. Matter of fact, I started listening to Tortoise by that time, which ultimately drove me into hip-hop and these past 2 years it's been all about that... but yeah, some of these prog acts are really exhausting, I remember listening to Buds & Spawn by Cardiacs and actually getting a headache out of it, lol
Damn, I have literally never gotten tired of prog since I first heard it in 2013. I heard ELP, Yes, Camel etc first. The classics. Then found modern prog. Then found Canterbury Scene, then found fusion prog. Then the real intense relatively unknown stuff like Uriel, Khan, Gong, Egg, which is a staple of my listening even today (although they only had 2 albums, forgetting about the 3rd album released years later that sounds nothing like Egg). This genre is so massive with so much branches that I can't see myself ever running out.
Melodramatic as I may sound, I read somewhere that "Ur Vilande" means "From Dormancy". If so, I think of it as an appropriate first track for a near-twenty-years-after studio release, yet, after listening to the entire album, and hoping I can't trivialise its seriousness, I believe it would have been more accurate, had it been called "From Dormancy (In fact, Reborn)". Very mature. Very Anglagard. I needed this album. Thank you guys for delivering still. Thank you uploader.
My favorite album from Anglagard. I think you would like this new symphonic prog LP from Québec (Canada)! JLG - Fruits immatures (album complet/full length LP)
mis amigos que tal aqui de nuevo me encuentro, escuchando esta hermoza melodia de esta banda que,proviene de suecia y denjeme decirles algo , esta produccion del 2012 me encanta; me gustan , todos sus acordes ; a si es que , las personas que les gusta el rock progresivo le recomiendo esta produccion;;;
I own the album. With Johan Brand, Miranda Brand (his daughter), Thomas Johnson, and Erik Hammarström (who replaced Mattias Olsson in Änglagård). This album is amazing and the Änglagård comparisons can't be avoided given who was involved. Certainly a favorite of mine when it comes to newer prog.
Anglagard is a brilliant band which somehow manages to walk the border line of pure brilliance and amateur musicianship. These musicians playing together are so far beyond the sum of their parts; it's a real testament to how music absent virtuosity can really be a masterpiece. It feels like yesterday this album came out... I hope another one is planned within this decade...
I understand what you're saying and I've thought the same about this band. The lack of extended solos combined with countless little repetitive licks, as fillers for the larger themes, splattered across the entirety of the musical landscape may give the impression of amateurs lacking virtuosity. Iit's difficult to decipher if they are making this cohesive and tricky music because they lack virtuosity and are instead relying on heavily syncopated and suffocating arrangements, or, they truly are virtuosos and choose this vehicle to showcase their creativity. Either way, the music is fantastic and very unique with minimal derivative tendencies.
massimo tria yeah! It's something special, this band. Reminds me of Camel, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, yet is truly unique! I would agree Hybris is their best work, but Epilogue is not far behind. I ordered this album!
yeah this album is equally as good! Fucking hell, I can not get my head around how amazing this band is!!! The compositions require a few listens, but if to take the time to soak it all in, you're in for a real treat! it's mostly instrumental and features extremely detailed compositions. every note is exactly where it should be. The compositions are long, dynamic, varied, extremely well-crafted, filled with beautiful melodies and never boring!
Oh shit Holy shit This is damn good, it's like genesis meet king crimson meet italian prog and... Well no, it only feels like that at times, this has actually its own character, and it's been released in 2012?! So damn good. Like, i was working, 11:00 comes in and i just spontaneously drop everything to listen more carefully and play along. Wtf
And more recently Norway, with Karisma Records and bands like Wobbler, Tusmørke, Jordsjø and The Chronicles of Father Robin. Apollon Records also has some great retro prog too like Ring van Moebius
BTW way ... all those really cool string & choir sounds are Mellotron. Its an old keyboard instrument that uses individual tapes behind each key which when you push down the key it plays an individual tape. Each has an analog recording of each note with either violins or choir voices (plus alot of other sounds if you change tape banks). The tapes are seven seconds long. Neat thingee!!!
I remember back in 2012 when I heard that Angalgard released a new album after 20 years or so, I was sceptical. That was because their 90s music was among the best the prog genre has ever offered, and also because most bands that return after such a long hiatus don't manage to live up to their glorious past.
But Viljans Oga was not only the album of the year, but one of the best albums of the decade in my opinion. Simply fantastic.
Anglagard = Prog music savior 💕
One of my favorite albums. A MASTERPIECE!
Yes, and pure poetry ! ;)
I listened to Anglagard for the first time when I was 16. This came out when I was 18. I'm 29 now, and yet to discover anything as shocking as Anglagard was to me back then
My noonie Khrun
Great pure progressive album. It reminds me of "Hands" (an old prog group from Texas, US). Well done to Swedish music :)
Heard this for the first time tonight. Now I am a fan for life.
Personnel
Änglagård
Jonas Engdegård - guitars
Johan Brand - bass and Taurus pedals
Thomas Johnson - pianos, Mellotrons and synths
Anna Holmgren - flute and saxophone
Mattias Olsson - drums, percussion and noise
Additional musicians
Tove Törnberg - cello
Daniel Borgegård Älgå - clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Ulf Åkerstedt - bass tuba, bass trumpet, contrabass trumpet
¡Y...no le han mentido! (And... they haven't lied to you)
The synthesis, the inspiration and the feeling from 33:23 to 36:15 is simply DIVINE. Thankfully it is repeated almost 4 minutes later.
Musica de muy alto nivel, con arreglos elaborados y delicados, el uso moderado de efectos electrónicos, le dá mayor mérito a esta obra .
Increiblemente hermoso este álbum, tremendamente complejo eso si, hay que darse el tiempo para lograr recibir cada emocion que puso Anglagard al componer estas 4 piezas!!!! Sin duda que me lo compro apenas tenga el dinero !!!!!!!!!!!
22:40 is genuinely one of the most beautiful 30 seconds I've ever heard in any modern music
yep
Fuck man, I came on this part
This is Anglagard's best album. Prog forever !!
Альбом просто волшебный, как и первый. Даже не знаю какой из них лучше.
Amazing band. So glad I found this!
Une très nette influence de King Crimson et Yes à la fois. J'aime beaucoup. Musiciens très compétents.
Truly not a dull moment. This is the best album in not only prog but of all genres in 2012. I can't wait to see them play this live now - it's a priority!
Thankyou Anglagard!!!
Saw them live in Los Angeles, back in the 90's, they were pretty awesome...!
YEAH THAT'S REAL PROG
I keep coming back to this. It's like listening to classical compisitions with modern instruments. This is some album.. amazing! The use of Harmony, dissonance, breaks, loud/soft, the way every instrument appears to play a different tune but still manages to put it all together in a coherent song somehow. Absolutely jaw-dropping and mind-boggling stuff!
exactly my thoughts, I was thinking that the music structure, progression is similar to Indian classsical.
@@rohanchowdhary975 interesting! Could you elaborate? Any examples?
just started this never heard of them really been into this type of music latley, kaipa, ayreon and ritual opened my eyes, this came on random play
I used to listen to this album every week when i was traveling to my work, in the countryside, at night on a bus, until i fall asleep... felt soooooo good! S2
Just stunning!
Personnel
Änglagård
Jonas Engdegård - guitars
Johan Brand - bass and Taurus pedals
Thomas Johnson - pianos, Mellotrons and synths
Anna Holmgren - flute and saxophone
Mattias Olsson - drums, percussion and noise
Additional musicians
Tove Törnberg - cello
Daniel Borgegård Älgå - clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Ulf Åkerstedt - bass tuba, bass trumpet, contrabass trumpet
Whoever it was that introduced me to this band.. thank you.
I love your user name!
Since we're all one... I suppose it was me.
Well now. That was the fastest 57 min of my life. What a find! Time to explore this band fully.
Ah voilà du prog! et non du pseudo-prog que l'on entend ici et là! J'ADORE!! Les gars l'ont l'affaire... Quel mariage avec la flûte, ça me rappel la magie de celle dans Maneige. Espérons que ce groupe pourra influencer avec leurs structures prog les musiciens qui voudront s'aventurer dans ce genre.
Anglagard, congratulations!
So glad this has 65,000+ hits. There are at least that many people in the world that give me some hope.
Saw them live in 2003 at Nearfest in PA....amazing.
,.,.,It is a journey through the darkest depths of sadness and longing, through a land of pure beauty and palpable fear,.,.
Hearing this for the first time tonight 10:00 pm. My mind is completely blown!!!! Thanks a lot my friend for what i know will turn into years of pleasure.
exactly my thoughts when discovering this!
WOW...I cannot wait to hear and see these guy's live for myself on CTTE 2015 !!!! I always judge great Prog Bands by their live shows. Sometimes too many tricks of the trade go into making these types of CDs, albums, tapes.....but if you can pull this off...LIVE...then for me...it's MUSIC HEAVEN..!!!!! i marvel at the talent that these top of the line players can produce !! Don't ever stop making music, PLEASE !!! New Fan....LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!
I won't forget in July 2012 the news of a new Änglagård album, I was in total disbelief. It was because exactly a decade before (2002-'03) they reunited, played a few shows, and then disappeared, and then when they reunited again, I would have felt they would go the same fate as in '03, but instead they stuck around and recorded a new album and in July '12 I bought both the CD and the black vinyl edition (I didn't have luck to get the clear vinyl edition, and it was more expensive anyways). The LP edition was different as it was a double LP set that plays at 45 rpm! It's everything I expected from this group, hard to believe the 18 year gap between their last studio album (Epilog), it's like they never left.
love this... the artwork is so beautiful... the eyes of that child just draw you into her world... I can feel her longing...
Amazing piece of music.
Podría adjetivar con innumerables palabras la belleza de este álbum que indefectiblemente contiene climas que agasajan al alma. Aconsejo escucharlo en un sofá muy cómodo y con la luz apagada.
🙃☹️🙄😒🤨🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱😩😩😩😩😩😩🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
A Masterpiece of Prog
Anglagard all the way! Love them so much!
Excelente proyecto ! algo que admiro de mi Hermano Israel Galindo es su buen gusto por la música !
Exacto, no es buena, es excelente, de lo mejor...
What a great return by Änglagård after so many years !!! Superb album !!!! My personal fav from this band is their previous album ("Epilog") but perhaps this is better !!
OMG this as put every Prog Rock band that never came out of the 70's to shame. It leaves them all in the dust :))))))))))))))
I was so tired of prog when this album came out that I didn't give it a chance... after 2 years I kinda recharged my batteries so here I am where I left, and it sounds incredible
I can tend to get listener fatigue from the progressive stuff as well. For that matter I get it if I stay in one place too long with any one style. I can get very tired of my own composition as well. There has been one piece I have been struggling with to try and find the right instrumentation and the timing. What year is this band from? Where are they from? And that album cover. It is intriguing. I almost cannot stop looking at it.
yeah for me it was like 4 years straight of nothing but prog with a little jazz and some other types of music but mainly prog, so by 2012 I was like... just done with it. Matter of fact, I started listening to Tortoise by that time, which ultimately drove me into hip-hop and these past 2 years it's been all about that... but yeah, some of these prog acts are really exhausting, I remember listening to Buds & Spawn by Cardiacs and actually getting a headache out of it, lol
Damn, I have literally never gotten tired of prog since I first heard it in 2013. I heard ELP, Yes, Camel etc first. The classics. Then found modern prog. Then found Canterbury Scene, then found fusion prog. Then the real intense relatively unknown stuff like Uriel, Khan, Gong, Egg, which is a staple of my listening even today (although they only had 2 albums, forgetting about the 3rd album released years later that sounds nothing like Egg).
This genre is so massive with so much branches that I can't see myself ever running out.
@@LilHaseProductions The way of the Progrocker.
try the mercury tree
A masterpiece, going to buy it immediately!
Bought the album thanks to this video. Great stuff.
Melodramatic as I may sound, I read somewhere that "Ur Vilande" means "From Dormancy". If so, I think of it as an appropriate first track for a near-twenty-years-after studio release, yet, after listening to the entire album, and hoping I can't trivialise its seriousness, I believe it would have been more accurate, had it been called "From Dormancy (In fact, Reborn)".
Very mature. Very Anglagard. I needed this album. Thank you guys for delivering still. Thank you uploader.
Heard this the first time when i was in highschool, it was magical back then but i appreciate this much much more now, such a blessing from Anglagard
There's a lot of King Crimson inside,
The use of the mellotron and flute gives it a retro flavor,
I like it :)
fantastic album from Anglagard !!!! Thank you for sharing !!!!
I really like this. And every now and then I remember this album and binge it for a couple of days
Heilt fantastisk. Tiårets album.
After hearing them i started respecting swedish Progressive Rock .
Modern version of focus. I’m not complaining. Great talent. Just listen to focus- eruptions. You’ll hear what I mean. All great stuff.
Fantastic, as always. Support the band by buying their CDs + LPs! (y)
Excellent album.
amazing album....... thank you so much for posting
Nice work Anglagard. Thank you.
The clearest influence I can hear is King Crimson. The guitars and the heaviness is KC. But Änglagård is very unique. I will see them this evening!
My favorite album from Anglagard.
I think you would like this new symphonic prog LP from Québec (Canada)!
JLG - Fruits immatures (album complet/full length LP)
Personnel
Änglagård
Jonas Engdegård - guitars
Johan Brand - bass and Taurus pedals
Thomas Johnson - pianos, Mellotrons and synths
Anna Holmgren - flute and saxophone
Mattias Olsson - drums, percussion and noise
Additional musicians
Tove Törnberg - cello
Daniel Borgegård Älgå - clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
Ulf Åkerstedt - bass tuba, bass trumpet, contrabass trumpet
mis amigos que tal aqui de nuevo me encuentro, escuchando esta hermoza melodia de esta banda que,proviene de suecia y denjeme decirles algo , esta produccion del 2012 me encanta; me gustan , todos sus acordes ; a si es que , las personas que les gusta el rock progresivo le recomiendo esta produccion;;;
DU PALLE.....COSI'.....
SARA' PURE PROGRESSIVO..IL ROMPIMENTO DE COJONI😱😱😱😱
Thanks for posting. This is really very good. Great musicians.
La mayor obra maestra del progresivo contemporáneo.
Sin dudas. El progresivo no tiene limites...
42:52 - desolate devastating beauty. Astonishing crescendo.
With spanish touch
Thank you very mutch for your upload! Great!!!
This album is wonderful!!!
22:46 - Drizzle
22:57 - Downpour
23:08 - DELUGE!
Great Album! Thanks!
Great album Änglagård
Line-up / Musicians:
- Jonas Engdegård / guitars
- Thomas Johnson / pianos, Mellotrons, synthesizers
- Anna Holmgren / concert flute, tenor saxophone
- Johan Brand / bass, Taurus bass pedals
- Mattias Olsson / drums, percussion, effects
With:
- Daniel Borgegård Älgå / clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
- Ulf Åkerstedt / bass tuba, bass & contrabass trumpets
- Tove Törnberg / cello
Half way through. Love it!!!
Anyone here listened to "All traps on earth - a drop of light" yet? Amazing stuff!!!
Yes! I just did right before this. That band actually has a lot of former Änglagård players in it.
I own the album. With Johan Brand, Miranda Brand (his daughter), Thomas Johnson, and Erik Hammarström (who replaced Mattias Olsson in Änglagård). This album is amazing and the Änglagård comparisons can't be avoided given who was involved. Certainly a favorite of mine when it comes to newer prog.
me ! a few days ago..! it could have been the 4th album of Änglagård ;) Johan Brand is very talented. Great album !!
@@Miler97487 yup! Highly highly rated!
@@D.Norton he is, insanely good
Disappear for 20 years
Randomly show up and drop this amazing album
Refuse to elaborate
great album!
Prog can sound like anything as long as it's rock and it's different, original, and technically inclined.
Amazing! Great! Great! Great! Just discovered.
Excelsos como siempre inmemorables momentos en el foro Azcapotzalco con la banda del chopo!! Saludos a Juan Carlos🤝
Anglagard is a brilliant band which somehow manages to walk the border line of pure brilliance and amateur musicianship. These musicians playing together are so far beyond the sum of their parts; it's a real testament to how music absent virtuosity can really be a masterpiece. It feels like yesterday this album came out... I hope another one is planned within this decade...
I understand what you're saying and I've thought the same about this band. The lack of extended solos combined with countless little repetitive licks, as fillers for the larger themes, splattered across the entirety of the musical landscape may give the impression of amateurs lacking virtuosity.
Iit's difficult to decipher if they are making this cohesive and tricky music because they lack virtuosity and are instead relying on heavily syncopated and suffocating arrangements, or, they truly are virtuosos and choose this vehicle to showcase their creativity.
Either way, the music is fantastic and very unique with minimal derivative tendencies.
"Amateur musicianship"
Nah.
This took Yes further into a musical snow flake falling, to apexs in music that you've been waiting to hear and haven't heard it, until now.
True prog is always awesome, and very hard to explain :)
holy fuck .. thank you .. thank you for uploading this! this is great
Que disco hermoso lpm!!!!
Gotta buy this. Great modern prog.
You heard their album Hybris? If not, check that out ASAP.
Moonsorrow don't forget Epilogue!! Also sheer brilliance by this incredible band!
Moonsorrow I got both. Amazing.
massimo tria yeah! It's something special, this band. Reminds me of Camel, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, yet is truly unique! I would agree Hybris is their best work, but Epilogue is not far behind. I ordered this album!
yeah this album is equally as good! Fucking hell, I can not get my head around how amazing this band is!!! The compositions require a few listens, but if to take the time to soak it all in, you're in for a real treat! it's mostly instrumental and features extremely detailed compositions. every note is exactly where it should be. The compositions are long, dynamic, varied, extremely well-crafted, filled with beautiful melodies and never boring!
I'm amazed
Wow i can't believe they released a new album!
I've never actually owned their albums(not yet anyway) but I've seen them at Nearfest twice. Great band.
Viaje al cielo con delicadeza y fineza .
Bom demais esse som.
crazy album this!
I feel anxious.
Will definitely buy the CD !!!
First few minutes were amazing!
THEY'RE BAAAAAACK !!!!!!!
(so happy!)
Oh shit
Holy shit
This is damn good, it's like genesis meet king crimson meet italian prog and... Well no, it only feels like that at times, this has actually its own character, and it's been released in 2012?! So damn good.
Like, i was working, 11:00 comes in and i just spontaneously drop everything to listen more carefully and play along.
Wtf
.. Stuuupendous stuff,..
The bass playing is devestating.
Brilliant. There must be something in Swedish water that produces such awesome progressive rock.
nice one !! it really must be :)
And more recently Norway, with Karisma Records and bands like Wobbler, Tusmørke, Jordsjø and The Chronicles of Father Robin. Apollon Records also has some great retro prog too like Ring van Moebius
Album of the year.
BTW way ... all those really cool string & choir sounds are Mellotron. Its an old keyboard instrument that uses individual tapes behind each key which when you push down the key it plays an individual tape. Each has an analog recording of each note with either violins or choir voices (plus alot of other sounds if you change tape banks). The tapes are seven seconds long. Neat thingee!!!
so glad to hear real prog isnt dead.
Snårdom my absolute favorite
Anglagard è un Sigillo di Garanzia. Alessio Basciani.
lovely
Wonderfull