In late April and early May I’ll release the two final White Stains albums online: Misantropotantra (1992) and Why Not Forever? (1994) I personally love these two albums, and only a few tracks from them have been made available digitally (on the compilation Exploratorium).
I made these albums together with Peter Bergstrandh, formerly of the Swedish band Lustans Lakejer. Peter is a really talented musician and he was the driving force behind White Stains actually becoming a touring band (ca 1991-1992) and not just a “project”. In this video clip, shot on a 1992 tour by my good friend and our tour manager Nicklas Kappelin, we even see Lustans Lakejer’s Christer Hellman on drums. I was a big fan of LL so for me this was heaven!
Both these albums contain a very different vibe than the other WS ones. The music is harsher, darker, very “minor key” and filled with long shadows trying to find a door to some kind of light, but basically only finding more darkness in each new room/space/structure. There’s a primitive desperation there that I still appreciate very much.
In going through and re-mastering these nostalgic gems, I’ve also roamed through the general archives. There’s plenty of stuff in there, and I intend to release a few oddities-and-outtakes albums too. But for now, please enjoy this memory lane film. As mentioned, the tour footage is from 1992, and the music is a very rare track called “Absorb the hole,” taken from one of many late night “Immergeil Studios” sessions in 1991-1992.
White Stains: “Absorb the hole” (1992) from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.
