Published Popular Music

This was a cassette recorded in one and a half hour in a basement in Sweden in the late spring of 1979. The participants were trainees from the Ananda Marga Yoga Training Center in Ydrefors, Sweden. I wrote some of the songs, and contributed with vocals and guitar. Barnet Shapiro played the viola, and some of the tunes are numbers we use to do busking around Europe raising money for social work.

One or two tracks from the original cassette are missing – the others have been skillfully digitally remastered by Ravi Brunsvik.

1. Night & Day

Composer/Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola solo: Barnet Shapiro
Vocals: Yoga Center Trainees

2. Kiirtana 1

Composer/Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Vocals: Yoga Center Trainees

3. White Bird

Composer/Guitar/Vocals: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola Solo: Barnet Shapiro

4. Instrumental

Composer: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola Solo: Barnet Shapiro

5. Kiirtana 2

Vocals: Yoga Center Trainees
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen

6. Unknown

Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen
Opening Vocals: Barnet Shapiro and Terje Berg-Hansen

7. Baba on my Mind (Adaptation of Georgia on my Mind)

Guitar/Vocals: Terje Berg-Hansen
Viola Solo: Barnet Shapiro

8. Turkey in the straw medley

Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen

9. Straight no Chaser

Composer: Thelonius Monk
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen

10. Wave

Composer: Tom Jobim
Viola: Barnet Shapiro
Guitar: Terje Berg-Hansen

Nu Skiffle Brigade

by terje Popular Music

Nu Skiffle Brigade (NSB) was a fun project I did entirely on my own and which resulted in a CD – Step Out! – that was released in 2006. Most of the recordings were however done in 2002-2004.

Here are the tunes on the CD:

01 – Stepping out with Dinah

This tune contains samples from the recording of “Dinah” by the Mills Brothers and Bing Crosby in the 1930s as well as a sample of Dizzy Gilespie’s voice from his tune “Jump Dideli-Ba”. The rest is all me.

02 – Happy Days Skiffle

Contains samples from an early recording of “Happy Days are Here Again” as well as a sample of Cab Calloway scatting from a recording of the song “Jumping Jive”

03 – One Little Kiss

Sung by “Ukulele Ike”, who’s real name was Cliff Edwards, and who later shape-shifted into Jiminy Cricket singing “When you wish upon a star” every Christmas.

04 – Mississippi Mud

This must be the least political correct tribute to black American music ever made by white musicians. Still, it is a tribute, and that’s how I interpret it. I added quite a few instruments and percussion, plus a steel drum solo part.

05 – Flat Foot Floogie

“Satchmo” Luis Armstrong with the Mills Brothers from the early 1930s. Satchmo’s trumpet solo was a bit short, so I sacrilegiously added a bit of trumpet myself, in the middle of it …