''Ta det lugnt'' ("''Take It Easy''") is the third album by the

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

psychedelic rock group

Dungen Dungen ("the grove", ) is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish (and other) folk music, classic rock, progressive rock, garage rock and alternative rock. The band ...

. It was produced by

Gustav Ejstes Gustav Ejstes (born 23 December 1979) is a Swedish musician. He is the singer and frontman of the Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen. Ejstes himselfs plays many of the instruments within his recordings, alongside bandmates Reine Fiske (guitar ...

, the lead singer and instrumentalist of the band. Ejstes also recorded and mixed the album. It was originally released in 2004 by Subliminal Sounds, and re-issued with the mostly instrumental 5-song EP ''Tyst minut'' in 2005 by

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Critical reception

''Ta det lugnt'' received critical acclaim, scoring 88 on

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and making it the website's tenth best album in 2004. In March 2009, it was the 43rd best album overall.

Track listing

Tyst Minut EP

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

Personnel

lyrics Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto" and their writer, ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, drums, keyboards, fiddle, flute *Reine Fiske -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

on tracks 1-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 13, bass guitar on tracks 5, 8, and 13,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

on track 10 *Fredrik Björling - drums on tracks 1 and 3, percussion on track 8 *Henrik Nilsson - bass guitar on tracks 1 and 3 *Aron Hejdström -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

on track 5 *Lars-Olof Ejstes - fiddle on tracks 4 and 10 *Anna Karin Palm - vocals on track 12 *Tiaz Gustavsson - percussion on track 10 *Frew Elfineh Taha -

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

on track 5

Production

*Producer:

*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 is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employe ...

: Stefan Kéry and Ida Lauden *Publishing: Sony ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2004 albums Dungen albums