RASK

Swedish Progressive Folk Music

Anyone looking for references will perhaps find traces of the 70s: Kebnekajse, Dr. John, Jan Johansson and the entire rich and broad - and so emotionally strong - Swedish folk music tradition. But above all, the result breathes passion and life. It is organ-sight, it pulses and breathes and the contemporary digital pursuit of perfection that can so easily suffocate the power of the music is completely conspicuous by its absence. This is emotion and giving, love and dance, spontaneity and presence, in a nutshell. In the band's eyes, folk music is not a rule-governed museum tradition, but on the contrary a living genre that exists to be developed and challenged. That's when it becomes relevant
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RASK Möter Christoffer

Released 2023

Anyone looking for references will perhaps find traces of the 70s: Kebnekajse, Dr. John, Jan Johansson and the entire rich and broad - and so emotionally strong - Swedish folk music tradition. But above all, the result breathes passion and life. It is organ-sight, it pulses and breathes and the contemporary digital pursuit of perfection that can so easily suffocate the power of the music is completely conspicuous by its absence. This is emotion and giving, love and dance, spontaneity and presence, in a nutshell. In the band's eyes, folk music is not a rule-governed museum tradition, but on the contrary a living genre that exists to be developed and challenged. That's when it becomes relevant.
Recorded in The Aerosol Gray Machine Studio in Vollsjö by Christoffer Lundquist

Kokkaffe

Released 2019

This record is Rask's first album and the sound is more pure Swedish folk. Rask's music gives you joy and a desire to dance.

Recorded in Studio306 by Johan Arveli.                                                                






Who is Shiva Emanuelsson

Born in May 1971. Started playing at the age of 13 with Angus as the guitarhero. Had a guitarbreak for 25 years. Then i met Jonas and Aska, and i picked up the guitar again. Lucky for me.

Its never to late in life for music

Who is Jonas Kaj-Lars staf

Born August 28, 1973 in Jämtland. Jonas has been involved with music since a little child. Started with punkrock, hard rock, then some irishmusic. Plays flutes, percussion and base.

He also plays in an irish group called The Rakish Men and the band without a name with the famous actor Mehdi Nebbou.

Beside music he loves to fish and go downhill in the deepest untouched snow.

Who is Aska Staf

Born January 17, 1973 in Japan. Started her musical path som pianist at the age of 4 where it was mostly classical music that was played. Now plays accordion, piano and keyboards.

Aska also likes to grow vegetables and work with handcrafts.

Who is Christoffer Lundquist

Born January 16, 1970 in Lund, is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and musician. In Lundquist's recording studio The Aerosol Gray Machine Studio in Vollsjö in Scania, well over a hundred records have been recorded since the start in 1998, often with Lundquist as producer or recording manager. In addition to Per Gessle's later records – RASK, Mazarin, Son of a Plumber, En handig man, Party Crasher and Gyllene Tider's Finn 5 fel! - Swedish artists such as Moneybrother, Sahara Hotnights, Ulf Lundell, Eldkvarn, Joakim Thåström, Wilmer X, Peter Jöback and Edda Magnason have recorded there. Lundquist is a multi-instrumentalist and has played with Per Gessle solo and in Roxette. He also plays bass in the band Brainpool, for which he also wrote a number of songs. He was also the first person to receive the Sir George Martin Music Award in 2011 at a gala in Malmö.
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