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Falo & Ulla
12+ albums
swedishfolkProgressivealternativeAvant-Garde
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Falo & Ulla was a musical duo, under which name the two brothers Jalmar (born in 1975) and Joel (born in 1970) Staaf recorded music and films in the 1980s. Living in Ångermanland in the north of Sweden, they formed their alter egos in 1984, and became a married, middle aged couple, who had a weakness for the nature, flower power and progressive folk music. Musically they were inspired by songs they had heard on Swedish television in the early 80s, when waiting for children's programme. Thus, they got influenced by Jojje Wadenius, Karin Liungman & James Hollingworth, Isterband, Philemon Arthur & the Dung, Mora träsk, Per Dunsö & Ola Ström (known from the tv-shows Toffelhjältarna and Solstollarna). Falo & Ulla recorded some cover songs, especially in the beginning. More often they wrote new songs, and sometimes they were distinctly inspired by a certain song, and would have made a cover version if only the duo had remembered it correctly. In those cases Falo & Ulla wrote a completely new song, but on the same theme as the original. Most of Falo & Ulla's songs were played on a Yamaha Portasound PS-3 PS-3 keyboard, while others were played on the piano, guitar or various percussion instruments. Falo built his own synthesizer in Technology class, that was used for the song "Snögubben" (The Snowman). Falo & Ulla continued recording frequently until 1989, when a couple of music cassettes were compiled to resume their work so far. User-contributed text is available under the Crea
