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Den här sommaren skulle de åka till New York och träffa självaste Andy Warhol på The Factory.

Varje sommar sålde Arne en tavla ur sin konstsamling för att finansiera en resa åt honom och barnbarnet Calle. TA: – Han hade träffat Hemingway och Salvador Dali och översatt Dalis böcker. Arne var också konstexpert och skrev den första boken om hur man värderar konst. Han skrev Största cocktailboken, som mig veterligen fortfarande är den största cocktailboken. Han introducerade Sartre på svenska, var ett socialt geni och lärde känna många intressanta, märkliga och berömda människor över hela världen. Arne var svensk­lärare, översättare, skribent och förläggare. Han bodde i en liten tvåa i Fruängen med sin stora konstsamling och anordnade litterära salonger i källaren. Vår basist, Calle Häggqvist, hade en mycket originell farfar, Arne Häggqvist. TA:– När jag var i 15-årsåldern var jag trummis i ett band som hette Ratfab, Roland And The Flying Albatros Band. TAW: “T ill sist måste jag fråga om det är sant att Andy Warhol gjorde skivomslaget till ditt gamla rockbands enda singel. Andy Warhol’s design for the RATFAB single cover. Here’s the text where he explains how Warhol came to design the cover. At the end of the interview he was asked whether it was true that Andy Warhol had designed the cover for a single by the band in which he had been the drummer. The article is actually an interview with Tomas Alfredsson, a Swedish film producer. The article is in Swedish and, coincidentally was published on Andy Warhol’s birthday, 6th August 2008, in the Swedish magazine Café. He has recently helped find the article again and here is the link: I lost the article but have always credited Tomas with being the one who tipped me off on the existence of the cover. A few days later he mailed me the article and my hunt for the RATFAB single started.

Unfortunately, Tomas could not remember where he had read the article, but he promised to try to locate it. One month later, my friend Tomas Ersson, visited me and I told him about the exhibition and he mentioned that he had recently read an article in a magazine where a Swedish musician told a story about how Andy Warhol had designed the cover for a single by the band he had been in as a 15-year-old. The exhibition was entitled “ Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol” as it coincided with what would have been Warhol’s 80th birthday on 6th August 2008. Between 23rd July and 31st August 2008, the first exhibition of Andy Warhol’s record cover art was shown at Piteå Museum, Piteå, in the north of Sweden. This album is an overlooked masterpiece.A recap. It's essential listening for fans of 4AD, ambient music, minimalism, experimental electronic music, and morose themes alike. Sleeps With the Fishes could not be a more perfect dark ambient, experimental album. Whether a listener is playing the album as background music or paying close attention to each note or sound, there's equal reward to be found. It's amazing that material that's so calmly paced and atmospheric is so enjoyable. Nooten and Brook are restrained in the creation of their moody aesthetic, but the songs are a delight from start to finish. Sleeps With the Fishes is quite dark, but it's equally beautiful and uplifting in the same instance. "Searching" might be the album's most accessible moment pairing gentle vocals, interesting electronic sounds (possibly courtesy of Brian Eno, and Brook's remarkably vibrant guitar, the song is a virtual manifesto, dictating the pace and themes of the remainder of the album. An uncredited female vocalist on "Equal Ways" echoes both Lisa Gerrard and Nico, as violins, cellos, and a somber piano swirl and twirl darkly around her. Some songs form out of dead silence, such as "Several Times II," which eventually layers on peaceful ambient sounds, before fading away again. His voice is as much of an instrument as any other element in the songs it's not important which lyrics are decipherable and which are not, as the vocals work mostly as a highlight to the mood-setting instrumentation. At times, he sounds like Martin Gore from Depeche Mode, only there's no sign of anything pop within miles. The album seems to define the word "mysterious." Nooten's vocals are gloomy, yet angelic as he sings about walking over clouds and worlds of unease.

Synthesizers creep in and around the vocals and guitar to stunning effect. Brook's guitar rings and chimes, sounding cleaner, and his guitar work is more precise than ever. Sleeps With the Fishes comprises 15 excellent, moody soundscapes, given depth by Nooten's subtle vocals and instrumentation that sounds piped in from some dreamy other world. It's hard to imagine this collaboration between Pieter Nooten (from Xymox) and ambient, experimental guitarist Michael Brook working any better.