{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Mandrake Root", "page" : "mandrake_root", "description" : "classic progressive hard rock with catchy riffs", "location" : "Linnegatan, Sweden", "bio" : "Mandrake Root- Biography and Retroperspective\n\n1980- 1983\n\nA version of Beatles \"Eleanor Rigby\" and 4 original songs by David were recorded at Radio Kronoberg Studio. an \"Exits version\" of Eleanor Rigby was aired on the local radio station several times. About 10-12 gigs were performed.\n\nTwo original songs by David were recorded in Stockholm for a Compilation album called \"Rock beast\". The Album contained several rock groups from Sweden.\n\nOne of the songs included in the compilation album written by David called \"Lost Woman\" won a radio contest for best song in the local area, the song was then aired on the national Swedish Radio during the fall of 1982.\n\n1984-1992\n\nIn 1986: 5 new original songs by David were recorded in the new \"Radio Kronoberg\" studio.\n\nIn 1987: 5 new original songs by David were recorded in the new \"Radio Kronoberg \" studio\n\nTwo radio programmes followed these sessions where the songs were aired together with interviews.\n\nTwo songs by David \"Things will never be the same again\" and \"Sudden changes\" are frequently played on the radio during 1986.\n\n1988: A 20 year anniversary Deep Purple party is taking place, Pyramid performs many Deep Purple songs in the evening. About 350 people attends the event, people are coming from Scandinavia. After the concert people are so excited by Pyramids performance that it creates a bit of a chaos in a positive way though..... David even smashes up his first electric guitar in pieces to the audiences cheer.......\n\nThe Deep Purple parties then becomes regular annual events for five years ahead until 1992.\n\n1989 an original song by David called \"Straight from my heart\" is recorded and a video is made as well. The song is played frequently on local radio stations during 1989, and the video is shown on local and national television.\n\n1992\n\nDavid creates his new group together with singer Per Englund (fomer singer in the group Blacksmith)\n\nThe band now consists of :\nDavid Braic: Guitar\nPer Englund: Vocals\nTommy Braic: Bass guitar\nStaffan Stavert: Keyboard\nStefan Nilsson: Drums\n\nDuring the fall of 1992 two original songs by David (music) and Per (lyrics) called \"Crazy little lover\" and \"Lonely man's day\" are recorded as demos in Kristianopel in the Pama recording studio.\n\nNow a more \"serious\" musical relationship evolves... featuring:\n\nDavid Braic as music writer, Per Englund as Lyricist, Magnus \"Mankan\" Sedenberg from PAMA recording studio as engineer and producer Magnus \"Maxe\" Axelsson as executive producer of PAMA recording studio...\n\n1993\n\nDavid writes the music for 5 original songs. Per Englund writes lyrics and recording begins in the PAMA recording studio during the beginning of 1993.\n\nThe session results in a Promotional CD called \"Waves in motion\"\n\nThe album consists of the following tracks:\n1. Inside Information\n2. Speed Trippin'\n3. Waves in motion\n4. Strange walking\n5. March of the immaculate\n\nThe album \"Waves in motion\" is well received in Japan and approx: 3000 copies are sold.\n\nThe album is also reviewed in the Japanese magazine \"BURRN\" and gets 85 points out of 100 !! In Sweden and in Europe about 2000 copies are sold and the album is reviewed in several Swedish magazines and in the english magazine KERRANG as well.\n\nThe song \"Inside Information\" is frequently played on radio and even reaches local charts in Norway ! A video of \"Inside Information\" is made containing footage of the band joking around the area of castle Teleborg and Kronoberg Castle ruin.\n\n1994\n\nMandrake Root signs a record deal with XERO Corporation in Japan.\n\nRecording sessions begins in PAMA Recording studios, David writes 10 new original songs for the forthcoming album....The album is completed during July 1994 and contains 13 songs.\n\nThe album \"Tales of the sacred\" is released in late september 1994 and about 5000 copies are sold initially in Japan.\n\n1995\n\nNew member drummer Hempo Hilden joins Mandrake Root,\n\nHempo is a well known drummer and has played with band such as, Pugh Rogefeldt, John Norum, Glenn Hughes to name a few...\n\nDavid writes 4 new original songs and makes an own arrangement of the song \"You keep me hangin' on\" for a possible subsequent new album. Recording sessions start in Pama recording studios during february 1995. The sessions results in raw mixes of the following songs:\n\n1. Running wild river\n2. Feed me anger\n3. Build and Burn\n4. Love is blind\n5. You keep me hangin' on\n\nFeed me anger and You keep me hangin' on are filmed by Swedish Televison TV4 in the TV studio. You keep me hangin on is used as a whole video, while clips of Feed me anger are used together with interviews with bandmembers. The complete programme is shown on swedish television and You keep me hangin on is shown several times on both local and national Swedish TV.\n\nMandrake Root is the supporting band for Yngwie Malmsteen in Vaxjo november 1995.\n\nEuropean version of the Album \"Tales of the sacred\" is released.\n\nSome songs from the Japanese version are omitted and replaced by other songs, the European version is also remixed.\n\nMandrake Root supports Glenn Hughes on his Swedish tour in november 1996.\n\nConcerts are performed in Borlange, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala and Malmo.\n\nOnwards......\n\nMandrake Root plays whenever opportunities shows up......", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/mandrake1.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/mandrake_root/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "mandrake-anger", "name" : "The Seventh Mirror", "artist" : { "name" : "Mandrake Root", "page" : "mandrake_root" }, "release_date" : "2005-09-05", "genres" : ["Hard Rock"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Mandrake%20Root/The%20Seventh%20Mirror/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/mandrake-anger/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/mandrake-anger", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=mandrake-anger" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. 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