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Members: Kenny-Oswald Dufvenberg Knut Hassel Magnus Hasselstam Dennis Ozzian Sjödin Genre: 70's blues-/hardrock .

GUDA performers practice "galasny speu" ("vocal singing", the term by ethnic musicologist Mrs. Z. Mazhejka) which has roots in loud singing en plein air. Basic aesthetic criterion in performing is the ability to "lead out loud" (prolonged singing with deep breath) and "raise up" the song (singing with sonorous thorax lining). Plurality of sounds is characteristic to vocal singing, these sounds are linked in an organic way into melodic line of the tune (glides in ascents and descents, voice trembling, long and short pronouncing of some emphasized phonemes - thus spring -summer cycle songs, majority of wedding and natal songs...

Navid Modiri & Gudarna (Navid Modiri & the Gods) is a Swedish band from Gothenburg. Their music can not be put in a genre, but their lyrics are poetic, funny and political, and the rythms comes from reggae and world music. .