Alf Hambe

poet, singer/songwriter.

Welcome!
- to "a world in the sign of Belum"!

Alf Hambe, who was born in 1931, is a songwriter whose melodies and lyrics have a highly personal style. His songs are often set in Molom, a fantasy world of fabulous beeings and landscapes that fire the imagination.

The songbook "Visa i Molom" (Song in Molom) appeared in 1965, and the title song soon came to be something of a signature tune for Alf Hambe. Alf himself explained that the word Molom is a magic charm: "...ever since it was first uttered, this magic charm has proved to have an innate power to create its own mythological world".

But Molom is also "a borderland with shifting boundaries" - a borderland between reality and fantasy, a "water kingdom". Perhaps it is Alf's own water kingdom, the sea coast of Halland and the coastal village of Steninge where Alf has lived for many years which are indispensable ingrediants in its own mythological world.

Hambe has also been inspired by Celtic tales and mythology, such as the legend of King Arthur and the quest of the Holy Grail, and his musical language shows traces of Irish and Celtic influences.

Other songs describe Hambe's experiences and people he has come across on his many and extensive travels by sea and by land.

To Alf Hambe words have always been, and will always continue to be, extremely important. Few people have enriched the Swedish laguage with such fantasy and creativity as Alf Hambe in his songwriting.

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