By request, Bo Stief's Hidden Frontiers, Denmark 1987

Note the involvement of the great Palle Mikkelborg, covered in the past on our blog here, and again here with Entrance.  (I really loved that Ashoka Suite / Concert from 1970, it's just stuffed with beautiful and intelligent modern composition.)  Palle is credited on this LP with mixing and production.  The full credits are here on this page.  It comes as a bit of a shock to see the number of bands and other big artists (Don Cherry, Buddy Tate, Eddie Harris) Bo Stief was associated with, to be found here.  First Alpha Centauri, a strongly recommended one-off fusion band with a smooth sound perhaps most similar to the Atmospheres album or Napalis.  Then the Apocalypse with Jasper I posted long ago, the aforementioned Entrance band, certain Peter Herbolzheimer bands, Jasper's Pork Pie band, Rolf Kuhn's Band, another band called String Summit I posted here, and that's probably enough for the time being, isn't it?

The music is most congruent with the later Entrance, for example this one.  Bo Stief has written everything, and at times he really stretches his imagination to take it in the Palle Mikkelborg university direction, witness the Hidden Frontiers title track which does require a bit of patience with its minimalist digressions:





Surprisingly this is not all instrumental but features a wordless sung track called 'Miss Julie.'
The addition of Palle's trumpet is quite winning:





Keyboard duties are from Jorgen Kaufmann and 'additionally' by Palle.