Pal Thowsen beginning with 1979's Surprise

 

A Norwegian jazz drummer, discogged here. He played with Jon Eberson and Hakon Graf in the wonderful fusion band Moose Loose, who I'll feature a bit later.  (Hakon the keyboardist also played in the great Hawk on Flight and Blow out the one-off fusion masterpiece. I'm surprised I never posted all those albums before.)

For his own works, Thowsen played a really nice, smooth but emotional and at times intense fusion.

If you take a look at the full credits, available on this particular page, you'll see he is accompanied by bandmates on guitar Eberson and Hakon too, and Arild Andersen on bass (oddly, also the producer on this). He himself didn't compose any of the music, credit seems to be spread out among all those other artists. Quite the surprise then that this music didn't come out as another Moose Loose LP or even Jon Eberson Group.

Rainbow Dance is an Eberson composition:

Note the really soft and lovely atmospheric closer called To You, which was also penned by Eberson:

With Hakon of course playing those lovely spacey synth chords.