Moon Safari is a progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band from Skellefteå

Skellefteå

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, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. Formed in 2003, the band quickly recorded a demo that caught the attention of Tomas Bodin of The Flower Kings

The Flower Kings

The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock group. Formed in August 1994 by veteran guitarist Roine Stolt as a touring band to support his solo album The Flower King, the band stayed together after the tour and have gone on to become one of the most prolific studio recording units in rock music...

. They have since released three albums on their own label Blomljud.

They performed their first UK show at the Winter's End Festival in Stroud on 13 March 2010. Moon Safari won the 9th annual Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards

The Independent Music Awards is an international program that honors top-ranked independent artists and releases in more than 50 Album, Song, Music Video and Design categories....

 Vox Pop vote for best Eclectic Album "In the Countryside".

Personnel

• Simon Åkesson - lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, Hammond organ, moog, mellotron, choir arrangements
• Petter Sandström - lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
• Pontus Åkesson - guitars, backing vocals
• Johan Westerlund - bass, backing vocals
• Tobias Lundgren - drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Sebastian Åkesson - Misc.

Discography

• A Doorway to Summer (2005)
• Blomljud
  Blomljud
  [Blomljud] is the second album release from the Swedish progressive rock band Moon Safari. It is the band's first double album, containing 11 songs of various lengths. It was released in 2008, three years after their debut album, A Doorway to Summer...
  
  (2008)
• Lover's End (2010)