It seems almost criminal that his solo works are almost forgotten. On this blog I presented the stunning progressive songwriting collaboration he made with Thomas Korberg (from the well-known Swedish band Made in Sweden, followed by Solar Plexus)-- an LP which remains for me one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard in this lifetime of seeking out advanced and unique music; but following this he made three more albums of which the (prog) highlight is Music for Music Lovers (1983). For music lovers indeed-- no simple-minded commercialese-enamoured lowlife with a small acoustic cerebral hemisphere could ever enjoy this intellectual, advanced, delicately varied, and very thoughtful album and I can only imagine what a horrific reception it must have received in the year 1983 when everyone was obsessed with Duran Duran, simple chords on digital drums, and I want my MTV. The title track pretty much says (musically) it all:
Before anything more, Stefan Nilsson:
Swedish composer and pianist, born 27 July 1955 in Kukasjärvi, Sweden.
Subsequently Stefan made this instrumental piano concerto-type record with an easy listening style string orchestra-- well, I should say it's more of a complete classical orch, don't want to insult anyone-- presumably to showcase his classical composition skills. I can't imagine how unpopular this must have been in the mid-80s when already 'muzak' had such a bad rep. This is not as progressive as the previous record, though he is capable of some very intriguing composition as in the track very atmospherically called Morning Mist:
Strings from the Royal Opera House Orchestra
I threw in the prior albums mostly with Coste Apetrea, viz., Nyspolat (1977), De Gladas Kapell (1978) and Vanspel (1979) which you probably don't need, nor necessarily does anybody.
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tHANKs.
ReplyDeleteThanks, great albums! Please reup korberg/nilsson blixtlas 1979
ReplyDeleteThx again;)