Wow – insane that anyone would even think to hunt down and re-release this, but this is a major public service for anyone attuned to the glorious sound of the late-60s European commune scene. Reportage: Spela Sjalv has been misattributed to the group Trad Gras Och Stenar but it’s actually a series of field recordings put together with Trad Gras’s Bo Anders Persson and Solveig Bark, an experimental composer and contemporary of Folke Rabe et al. Released in 1970, the LP is a document of various non-musicians making experimental/ritual/spontaneous sound across a bunch of contexts. There are ecstatic percussion and string jams that float whole rooms full of voices, stumpy acoustic dirges, traditional folk melodies re-birthed as tickets to tomorrow, NNCK/Vibracathedral-style primitive drones, solo ragas... the section with children singing and playing on the second side is particularly out and a lesson in the potential of spontaneous body soundings for alla the modern would-be sound poets out there. It succeeds not just as a convincing document of ‘music’ made by ‘non-musicians’ but as a time capsule from the Swedish underground and a transposing of Trad Gras/International Harvester/Parson Sound’s monolithic drone work to festivals and acoustic folk settings. Comes in a replica sleeve. Highly recommended.