Hawk on Flight (first few LPs) limited time only flacs for 1st 2

 

I didn't realize they made so many albums, I must've given up on them in the mid80s. I don't even have the courage now to go through the post 1985 ones to see if there's anything in there worth hearing, maybe someone else could take up the sacrifice for our people, for humanity. Then I wish them best of luck! Assuming I ever see them again.

Note the Jag Tanker composition reappears here, recall this showed up in Soffgruppen.

The Hawk on Flight track from 1979 is just gorgeous, of course:

From the eponymous 1980, I've always been entranced by Graf's Voicings beginning on the full organ then moving to a fugue like section and accelerating to the fusion of the end:

Btw, the guitarist on these albums is Ulf Wakenius.

Predictably, after these 2 and the departure of Hakon Graf, very quickly the band now led by bassist Matz Nilsson gets smoother and smoother, the tracks get lighter and lighter, the sound becomes commercialer and commercialer, and inevitably the crappy tinny drum machine takes over from the real percussion, the David Sanborn-style squeaky squealing scratchy sax starts howling at the moon, the Brazilian bossa nova importations come in, the chords are minimized to 4 per composition, etc., etc.