Sunday, 26 September 2021

Rena Rama in 7 albums
















I know a lot of people have requested these records here in the past, and I've posted quite a few in these years, I ripped New Album which I remember chiefly for the beautiful impressionistic piano solo called Gestalt.  That was written by this guy, who made other records in the 70s, wonder if they are worth hearing.  

Some I never even knew about like the live album from the early 80s and this highly interestingly titled Lost Tapes from 1987


Here's the discogs intro:

Swedish jazz group formed in 1971 by Bengt Berger, Palle Danielsson and Bobo Stenson, but after a short time Lennart Ã…berg also joined. The band developed a new form of jazz with influences from traditional African folk music, songs from Pakistan and the Balkans, something that was unusual among American jazz musicians. The group was awarded the Jazz Award in Sweden in 1973 and then released their first album. In 1975, Berger left the group and was replaced by Leroy Lowe. In the mid-1980s, Danielsson was replaced by Anders Jormin and Lowe by Anders Kjellberg. In 1989, an album was recorded with Marilyn Mazur. Rena Rama was disbanded around 1993, but an album with recordings from 1987 was released in 1998.

So focusing on the lost tapes, the Gentle Piece, which starts so unpromisingly with a bass solo, really is quite gentle, perhaps enough to cure most treatment-failed, terminal insomniacs out there like myself:




13 comments:

  1. In 2 packages,

    1 (Jazz i Sverige, Landscape, Inside Outside, Live)

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/5tkqlm

    https://www30.zippyshare.com/v/gU35eQ3i/file.html

    2 (New Album, Marilyn Mazur, Lost Tapes, plus Bonus Don Cherry with RR 1991)

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/hds9cg

    https://www96.zippyshare.com/v/RZm8pmCc/file.html

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  2. Thank you Julian, I once owned the LP Landscapes - and I missed that music since changing to digital. I somehow achieved to lose that disk ...

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  3. I loved Bobo Stenson on Jan Garbarek's "Dansere" - which is perhaps not your cup of tea, but it surely was great for me :) . I didn't know about this group, I need to hear it NOW! Thanks a lot...

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  4. Thanks for the Rena Rama posts - many hear I wasn't aware of. Bobo Stenson has made some fine albums for ECM since RR split - most of them are piano trio recordings

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  5. Fantastic! thanks a lot! I had long been curious about this group. :-)

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  6. Julian do you have these?

    https://www.discogs.com/artist/2133074-Riot-8

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    1. both riot albums
      https://www67.zippyshare.com/v/zmEkDx8l/file.html

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    2. Thank you Julian, very much appreciated!

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    3. Let me throw one more at you!
      https://www.discogs.com/Uli-Beckerhoff-Group-Reality/release/2118778

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    4. any chance you have this?

      https://www.discogs.com/release/12846099-Crash-Kakadu-Lost-Tapes-1977-1978

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  7. Hi Julian,
    I am looking for this album, can you help?
    https://www.discogs.com/John-Macey-Meltdown/release/12305917
    Thank you

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  8. Thx for this. Each to his own. Personally I would never consider a solo from either Danielsson or Jormin from unpromising...

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  9. thank u so much for rena rama
    roberth

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