Wednesday 11 May 2016

Maru & Mikael ‎– Destination Nowhere from 1975 [lossless]



Pop about as beautiful as it gets here.
A brand new rip from my dear friend to share here.
I could get lost in the beautiful artwork on front and back for days, like the Stendhal effect.

Maru is Marianne Nyman (born 1954, thus a very youthful 21 on this LP); notice she is credited with backup vocals on the 1977 Kalevala album I posted long ago.  Her subsequent output looks like it's all over the map with disco, schlager, and country-rock.  Mikael is Mikael Wiik and he shows up next in Heikki Sarmanto's wonderful Open Ear album I posted once too.  Despite the post-history of these two, nothing can prepare you for the magic of this album if you haven't heard it before.  A kind of electric folk, like classic Jefferson Airplane, plays under some utterly gorgeous three-part harmonies on the part of Maru.  Consider the track about a hooker/stripper called Too Fast to Last with its really ingenious chord changes, and three-quarters rhythm evoking a too-rapid dance:





Should've been a hit, again!



8 comments:

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  2. For me, listening to this is the next best thing to having a time machine, if you know what I mean. Thanks Julian.

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  3. Julian do you have some information about this singer? I'm looking informations on the internet and I can't find anything. If she's still singing, if she have some social network or if she published more albums. She's was very pretty and this album is superb.

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  4. Hello Julian
    The links are dead, please could you send them again !
    Thanx

    Phil

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  5. no probs
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/2cbkco

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  6. Maru and Mikael made ep 1990:Maapallo palaa/voi ystäväin/Sakura/Rag bag (rec comp:Olarin musiikki oy.Antero Jakoila plays guitar with them.Jorma Koski (Finland Helsinki) by the way Destination Nowhere is quite rare.They sell it 120 e in Helsinki Levykauppa X.

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