Enema & Gejonte

Swedish experimental electronic duo active from 1988 to 1996.

Enema & GeJonte started in 1988, in Orebro, Sweden, by Kai Parviainen and Jonas Ohlsson. They put out four cassettes and a split album with Frak, all teeming with clever and funny electronic pop songs. The sound can be seen as a mix of Duet Emmo, The Residents, and early Severed Heads.

Kai pushes his Sequential Circuits Pro-One synthesizer to its limits while Jonas makes discerning observations on everyday life in a Swedish small town. Mostly sung in Swedish, sometimes in English, but always with a touch of sweet naivety and innocence on par with lo-fi punk/pop such as Dan Treacy and Daniel Johnston. Typical song subjects: A friendly game of five-a-side football. The joy of rising at the crack of dawn to get on with the tasks of the day. A bus journey to Odensbacken to savour a semla at a local cafe and some small talk with the gas station manager. All delivered with a playfulness and ecstasy more commonly found on the records with Swedish Christian music Kai so devotedly collects than in contemporary industrial or electronic music.

When Jonas moved to Amsterdam in 1996 the boys ceased making music together, leaving behind a number of unreleased material, some of which appeared on a couple of cassettes in the 00's.