Between the release of their 2010 album Skit I Allt and the 2015 gem Allas Sak, excellent Swedish psych band Dungen were enlisted to create an original soundtrack for German director Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, one of the medium’s earliest examples and widely considered to be its oldest surviving work. Dungen’s music is distinguished in part by the sweet nasal singing of front man Gustav Ejstes, whose indelible melodies weave together the group’s often discursive styles.…
Between the release of their 2010 album Skit I Allt and the 2015 gem Allas Sak, excellent Swedish psych band Dungen were enlisted to create an original soundtrack for German director Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, one of the medium’s earliest examples and widely considered to be its oldest surviving work. Dungen’s music is distinguished in part by the sweet nasal singing of front man Gustav Ejstes, whose indelible melodies weave together the group’s often discursive styles.…