Bengt Nordström & Miljövårdsverket recorded live in concert April 21, 1983 at Tre Backar, Stockholm, Sweden:

Bengt Nordström, Frippe, opens the concert saying that a tape recorder is tracking down this, on the spot composed sounds, and it will all be released in about two years. It did of course not happen! Other recordings were released and this one was soon forgotten. Forty years later the old tape was quite damaged but the music still sounds fresh and is happening!

The legend of Bengt Frippe Nordström (1936-2000) tells how he picked up the clarinet and the saxophone after being deeply touched by the music of Tony Scott and Sonny Rollins in the late 1950s.
Then meeting Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler changed his musical vision; so much that he no longer fit into the contemporary jazz scene in Sweden. Frippe spoke of a spontaneous, improvised, creative music at a time when everyone else was trying to master bebop. Because of this, he was left to play alone for many years. He became "the outsider"; that nobody wanted, or had the nerve to play with. During intermissions at clubs, like the "Golden Circle", he took the opportunity to play small solo concerts and recorded himself.

He released small editions of his work on his own "Bird Notes" label. Although the recordings were mostly solo sax, on rare occasions, he was joined by Don Cherry on trumpet, bassist Sven Hessle or bassist Björn Alke who would show up to play duets with Frippe. His collection had two releases: Albert Aylers; "Something Different!!!!!! and Frippes own; "Natural Music". The other recordings were not numbered or catalogued but were released as LPs and EPs.

It was not until the mid-1970s that Bengt Frippe Nordström formed his band, the "Miljövårdsverket". At the "Tre Backar" the band comprised Bengt with Lars Svanteson, violin and Peeter Uuskyla, drums.

This was some damn good sounds of music going on forty years ago in Stockholm and nearly nobody has heard it yet!