Joakim Skogsberg

Joakim was born in November 1946 in Stockholm, and got interested by nature in an early age. Perhaps it was because his grandfather was a boat builder on the Dal River fisherman and his Grandma was magic knowledgeable and had a divine laughter? He worked with many of his own and joint projects in the creative 60's in Stockholm, where film, music and art flowed together in "happenings." Among other things he recorded some live gigs with Träd, Gräs och Stenar (the "Festen P? G?rdet" CD). He later moved from the city to the nature in J?mtland in the middle of Sweden.

Jola Rota was recorded on the very small label GUMP in 1971 (which was actually the big Metronome labels side project for more experimental music). It's inspired by folkmusic from J?mtland. The kind of humming that is on the record is traditionally called "Jola" and "Rota". The record was produced by Swedish artist Pugh Rogefeldt who's also on the record, as well as some members of folkpsych group Kebnekajse.

Lately Skogsberg has made a living on art (painting etc), and in recent years been involved with some music in much the same form as on Jola Rota, thus Jamtlandish folk. In 1999 he released the album "Dust Indi Garden" which is very similar to his LP and includes the 43 minutes long song "Holi bands." The last two discs, "Black'n'Red Blues" and "Booga Heart" are less official and exist only in very small edition of about 50-100 copies and are in first place meant for his friends, acquaintances and members of various art associations.