Ta Det Lugnt is Swedish

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....

 psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 group Dungen

Dungen

Dungen is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as progg or psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish folk music, classic rock, progressive rock, garage rock and alternative rock....

's third album. It was produced by Gustav Ejstes

Gustav Ejstes

Gustav Ejstes is a Swedish musician. He is the singer and frontman of the Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen...

, the lead singer and instrumentalist of the band. Ejstes also recorded and mixed the album.

It was originally released in 2004 by Subliminal Sounds

Subliminal Sounds

Subliminal Sounds is a Swedish record label based in Stockholm founded in 1989.-Artists:*Adam*Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds*Baby Grandmothers*Backdoor Men*Dungen*Entheogens*Merrell Fankhauser*Peter Grudzien*D.R. Hooker*Abner Jay*Jade Stone & Luv...

, and re-issued with the mostly instrumental 5-song EP Tyst Minut in 2005 by Kemado Records

Kemado Records

Kemado Records is an American record label based in New York City founded in 2002. In 2006 the label released the Invaders compilation, which featured many of the label's bands alongside other hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Witchcraft, High on Fire and Witch.In 2008, Kemado introduced its...

.

It received universal critical acclaim, scoring an 88 on Metacritic

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 and making it the website's 10th best album of 2004. As of March 2009, it is the 43rd best album overall.

Track listing

1. "Panda" – 4:55
2. "Gjort bort sig" ("Made a Fool of One's Self") – 5:10
3. "Festival" – 3:43
4. "Du e för fin för mig" ("You're Too Good for Me") ;– 8:28
5. "Ta det lugnt" ("Take it Easy") – 7:43
6. "Det du tänker idag är du i morgon" ("What You Think Today You'll Be Tomorrow") – 3:58
7. "Lejonet & Kulan" ("The Lion & The Den") – 2:48
8. "Bortglömd" ("Forgotten"/"Neglected") – 4:27
9. "Glömd konst kommer stundom ånyo till heders" ("Forgotten Art is Sometimes Appreciated Again") – 0:55
10. "Lipsill" ("Crybaby") – 2:45
11. "Om du vore en vakthund" ("If You Were a Watchdog") – 3:02
12. "Tack ska ni ha" ("Thank You"/"You Have My Thanks") – 0:31
13. "Sluta följa efter" ("Stop Following") – 4:52

Tyst Minut EP

The following tracks, released as the Tyst Minut EP, were included with the 2005 release of this album:

1. "Tyst minut" ("Moment of Silence") - 3:47
2. "Jämna plågor" ("Regular Pain") - 3:07
3. "Sjutton" ("Seventeen") - 2:50
4. "Christopher" - 2:01
5. "Badsång" ("Bath Song") - 2:18

Personnel

• Gustav Ejstes
  Gustav Ejstes
  Gustav Ejstes is a Swedish musician. He is the singer and frontman of the Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen...
  
   - lyrics
  Lyrics
  Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
  
  , music
  Music
  Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , drums
  Drum kit
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  , flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Reine Fiske - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   on tracks 1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 13, bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on tracks 5, 8, and 13, percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   on track 10
• Fredrik Björling - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   on tracks 1 and 3, percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   on track 8
• Henrik Nilsson - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on tracks 1 and 3
• Aron Hejdström - saxophone
  Saxophone
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   on track 5
• Lars-Olof Ejstes - fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
   on tracks 4 and 10
• Anna Karin Palm - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   on track 12
• Tiaz Gustavsson - percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   on track 10
• Frew Elfineh Taha - voice
  Voice
  Voice may refer to:* Human voice* Voice control or voice activation* Writer's voice* Voice acting* Voice vote* Voice message-In film:* Voice , a 2005 South Korean film* The Voice , a 2010 Turkish horror film directed by Ümit Ünal...
  
   on track 5

Production

• Producer: Gustav Ejstes
  Gustav Ejstes
  Gustav Ejstes is a Swedish musician. He is the singer and frontman of the Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen...
  
  
• Executive producer: Stefan Kéry
• Mixing: Gustav Ejstes
• Recording: Gustav Ejstes
• Engineering: Pierre Carnbrand
• Mastering: Thomas Tibert
• Cover design: Stefan Kéry and Carl Abrahamsson
• Photography
  Photography
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  : Stefan Kéry and Ida Lauden
• Publishing: Sony ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia