Great stuff! I really like the use of those acoustic tuned percussion-instruments combined with electronic keyboards and drums. I wonder how the complete album will sound like, because you can't do this 40 minutes, there has to be some change in style. Are they having guitars in their sound? Well, the website www.wintergatan.net doesn't show us a lot of news, but we'll be patient.
B.t.w. the way the musicians were playing in the room made me think of the intriguing German band The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble - see:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pV8-Ybi2aY&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8KGam3m9Q

I really like The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble. First video: The atmosphere in their sound remind me of Zappa's "The Yellow Shark", which was his music with an ensemble.

I did a search of Vintergatan in swedish but couldn't find any good info about this band.

Indirectly I had some contact with the band and according to that mail the release-date is planned on May 1st 2013. I wonder if they will beat Oblivion Sun ;-)

Oh I really hope not

Here's a new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEeiRXOlWUE&feature=youtu.be

I can clearly hear the influence from console/game music. Sadly that becomes too dominant in this video. I find the first video to be more interesting. Lets see what the album brings in a few months.

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The CD has just been released: www.wintergatan.net/wintergatan-cd-has-arrived/

Received the album yesterday and I really like it. Although it's not a 100% progressive album, there's a lot to enjoy. Of course there's the opening-track Sommerfågel, known for its beautiful video (see first post in this thread) and the playfull Starmachine2000, which has a nice clip too. The music is full of a clash between traditional instruments like drum-kit, accordion (which often gives a French atmosphere), bass and piano and the so called, often self-made toy-instruments plus regular and strange percussion-instruments like glockenspiel, vibraphone, typewriters and a the slide of a dia-projector. The rhythms are sometimes dance-like, but always with a serious twist. What makes it progressive is the great use of all kinds of synthesizers, both analogue and digital, while there's even an epic on the album, the 13+ minutes Paradis, which also features some heavy guitars.

After listening to the Wintergatan-album, I got curious about their previous group: Detektivbyrån. Their two albums, E18 Album and Wermland, are more or less in the same vein, due to the used instruments, but are slightly more folky, while there are less "dance-rhythms".

I can be without dance rhythms. The only modern rhythm that I actually like is drum'n'bass, which I think is kind of progressive. Especially "atmospheric drum'n'bass".

The Wintergatan-website opens with a stream of a recent concert.

Here's another recent live-clip: www.svtplay.se/klipp/1665980/wintergatan-starmachine2000?tab=klipp&sida=1