Sci-Fi SKANE is a musical collaboration of
Swedish
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musicians
Thomas Öberg and
Jonas Jonasson
Pär-Ola Jonas Jonasson (born Per Ola Jonasson; 6 July 1961) is a Swedish journalist and writer, best known as the author of the best-seller ''The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared''.
Biography
The son of an ambul ...
, members of Swedish
rock groups
bob hund
bob hund (Swedish for "bob dog") is an indie rock band from Sweden. Their music, hard to classify, has been described as "what you might expect if you managed to merge Pere Ubu and Pixies with a touch of Kraftwerk".
bob hund have performed mostly ...
and
Bergman Rock.
Sci-Fi SKANE was started in 2005, and the goal was stated as being to "create stupidity and dance".
The word SKANE in the name is regarded as an ironic anglification of
Skåne
Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne C ...
, the area the band originates from.
Sci-fi SKANE's musical style is of the same nature as bob hund's and Bergman Rock's style, but without live drums, and dominated by keyboards and programmed sounds. However, the somewhat ironic tone known from bob hund and Bergman Rock is present both in the music and in the lyrics.
So far Sci-Fi SKANE has released two
singles: a cover of
Canned Heat's "
Going Up The Country" called "Jag har aldrig bott vid en landsväg" and another song called "Vi kommer försent till bluesen".
The duo's debut album ''Känslan av att jorden krymper växer'' ("the feeling that the Earth shrinks grows") was to be released in Sweden by
Silence Records on November 16, 2005, but due to errors in the printing of its
phosphorescent cover, the release was delayed.
''Känslan av att jorden krymper växer'' tracks
Swedish musical groups
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