tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21092933716544248642024-03-29T07:17:37.634-07:00progressive music reviewsJulianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1807125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-38812177706304693282024-03-29T05:13:00.000-07:002024-03-29T05:15:30.985-07:00Deus Ex Machina, Cinque, temporary link only<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrxA3ERfAtvWrbTQHv2_2hS5MTjeaauq7ItVxICtNvacODXkrvSfEfuzxYZlTZXhhyphenhyphenz7wQr8qHUAS7gGsBsV7DZfzY_YyGOluhp4Q6EJuFJ8SnekU5XF7mCG8LPb8AX8aubm1hK1gauN-6mJvU22p_2NiucFmrJ0g3YUw66QXxcaHNSHGhUqHVXc1AlQ/s250/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrxA3ERfAtvWrbTQHv2_2hS5MTjeaauq7ItVxICtNvacODXkrvSfEfuzxYZlTZXhhyphenhyphenz7wQr8qHUAS7gGsBsV7DZfzY_YyGOluhp4Q6EJuFJ8SnekU5XF7mCG8LPb8AX8aubm1hK1gauN-6mJvU22p_2NiucFmrJ0g3YUw66QXxcaHNSHGhUqHVXc1AlQ/s1600/cover.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>This band is like the recent times' version of the classic Italian band Aera which it really feels like a perfect continuation of. There are very harsh dissonances, even harsher singing, all in latin of course, and really bizarre chords and melodies. Sometimes it's successful but sometimes not. It's hard to really enjoy the vocals.</p><p>Oddly enough the title doesn't represent the<a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1458276-Deus-Ex-Machina-9" target="_blank"> number of the albums,</a> this is likely the 7th release. If you heard their previous ones, it's pretty much indistinguishable in my opinion.</p><p>Unusually for a prog band, they have their own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_Machina_(band)" target="_blank">wikipedia </a>and <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/deus-ex-machina-mn0000245618" target="_blank">allmusic </a>pages.</p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-66478541644348348972024-03-27T04:47:00.000-07:002024-03-27T04:47:55.086-07:00Tie Break in 1991 with Gin Gi Lob<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5n-1N6WNZyVelioClg8LuPOniFyvC1FFrK0dXDpAahLgAvmgqav86YOFGLsPXPKxfeaJVsYniVXDNeBBGURz6dJ91H3b91mAe7Dp9EKhpgZXnFjGomzhOCWFDt0Wf6dj3-09BMYuhP3PARHsgVglZYymoz9qGntqJDt98Nt6pJJYdjMlCJXxEVtdUQ/s459/R-13759818-1571425596-6297.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5n-1N6WNZyVelioClg8LuPOniFyvC1FFrK0dXDpAahLgAvmgqav86YOFGLsPXPKxfeaJVsYniVXDNeBBGURz6dJ91H3b91mAe7Dp9EKhpgZXnFjGomzhOCWFDt0Wf6dj3-09BMYuhP3PARHsgVglZYymoz9qGntqJDt98Nt6pJJYdjMlCJXxEVtdUQ/s320/R-13759818-1571425596-6297.jpg" /></a></div><p> Just as crazy as the original one with nutty songs and odd riffs. What a shock they continued in this oddball manner into the first year of Grunge when Nirvana and Pearl Jam completely changed popular music. Thank god for uncompromising artists.</p><p>The surprisingly jazzy <i>Ostatni Joint:</i></p><p><br />
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</p><p><i>Panga lop ka</i>:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/5-panga-lop-ka" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
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Crazy vocalizing still appears here and there. Some tracks feature / are spoiled by some insane (take away the s?) ethnic styled chanting. Nonetheless I reassure you this is worth hearing.</p><p>Title track:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/a-3-duch-wieje-kdy-chce" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-46555618785141507232024-03-24T10:16:00.000-07:002024-03-24T10:16:19.400-07:00Tie Break, 1989<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U3GV4LwKwIJu4fgpC1in04-MtPHoiLbWHx2yJ-Tk4GyNHwEteCD4rggRMJacBNSDnnqUMR0MPAfo3KPsl2BXJmXM_0aHGHNZBvbB7QQxSMmf-VSLT0-Nn838bfOBZJrNDF35pT7xB-Fvn2-PpJuDECMbRESFdCvUY0u5WXg8Pj5cCIJjsyKOwA6oHw/s800/folder.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U3GV4LwKwIJu4fgpC1in04-MtPHoiLbWHx2yJ-Tk4GyNHwEteCD4rggRMJacBNSDnnqUMR0MPAfo3KPsl2BXJmXM_0aHGHNZBvbB7QQxSMmf-VSLT0-Nn838bfOBZJrNDF35pT7xB-Fvn2-PpJuDECMbRESFdCvUY0u5WXg8Pj5cCIJjsyKOwA6oHw/s320/folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDEtTN7cSluJbzdwgI-KLYz-JjS6JJRcl0H3XcSFBVUFktfq2O6wnNY341fduOr5Ii5WzXeTHrT6FuZdoOm-PVN3t9d-2cN5TcmKHjYMiMvPFx5yre0eOyNj2JybN_W9VVL2IOrWKF0MvPnBZausgrgHfxxaDC3hwOPrjduiorQM06FZGsWwgUBUTCQ/s800/back.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDEtTN7cSluJbzdwgI-KLYz-JjS6JJRcl0H3XcSFBVUFktfq2O6wnNY341fduOr5Ii5WzXeTHrT6FuZdoOm-PVN3t9d-2cN5TcmKHjYMiMvPFx5yre0eOyNj2JybN_W9VVL2IOrWKF0MvPnBZausgrgHfxxaDC3hwOPrjduiorQM06FZGsWwgUBUTCQ/s320/back.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p><p>The band achieves a remarkably complex progressive fusion sound on top of harder rock with all the electric instruments active and in the forefront. This is the first one <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1404605-Tie-Break-Tie-Break" target="_blank">from 1989</a>. I appreciate that it's very much rock based, but combined with the oddest sounds, melodies, riffs, somewhat like what the early 80s Germanic progressive rockers were doing along the lines of say Kjol. Really a nice find, and again, out of the blue. And out of the ballpark too.</p><p><i>Zamulony (Dull)</i> :</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/05-zamulony-dull" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-46997960934981727832024-03-20T11:00:00.000-07:002024-03-20T11:00:49.171-07:00Walking in Space, Japan 1971<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2JndyJUyj2pcUOZYl5dS2sFldRlGBD_JcPD4vi7ObtVPlIoRRa8YgrFvrd-rM-JOsWn9xANV2vKFBHk-cnsIQaU_smPr5_jx2aW192sX6sA6vtd44es77NyiVe7jk_L5md3ecv2pmeTa6NFgDdhszzenBfUMksYsdoDbvmnpD80p1dTMJwfDChj_-Q/s1596/box1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1596" data-original-width="1589" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw2JndyJUyj2pcUOZYl5dS2sFldRlGBD_JcPD4vi7ObtVPlIoRRa8YgrFvrd-rM-JOsWn9xANV2vKFBHk-cnsIQaU_smPr5_jx2aW192sX6sA6vtd44es77NyiVe7jk_L5md3ecv2pmeTa6NFgDdhszzenBfUMksYsdoDbvmnpD80p1dTMJwfDChj_-Q/s320/box1.png" width="319" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3xXDfzI2PkR7TBRELiPSHeTSIeychJD5tgSLpRQJ5hAf5_twhRRnbdeyAmyzUoi8GxU5GyTN771oC2vgtbcij0S60-302VReuH6Pq2ovb8SeXL9R3PKf5iNiNv7N11zQh7djPuMVgCf-0NszO8CwPZPCFfc5WYOchzWcvYuLIBBA17L4C4ZB4QDwj2A/s1550/leaflet1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgVWq-8taeo7kN2WDF66RR805tWC5kvEMkTpnbJraA2dKyiwXF-UiFZ9Av1L8mcnD2e_9S50bgN253ybWri0JBdkaGir8iDy-TFahFbW8ASQN2S1PBD5KZ15dsggCulJszS1NrIO3fQ0C7VguSeHauA4pM_dnyC01vTUObR6UzxWooCeaAI0QRa8oGA/s900/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgVWq-8taeo7kN2WDF66RR805tWC5kvEMkTpnbJraA2dKyiwXF-UiFZ9Av1L8mcnD2e_9S50bgN253ybWri0JBdkaGir8iDy-TFahFbW8ASQN2S1PBD5KZ15dsggCulJszS1NrIO3fQ0C7VguSeHauA4pM_dnyC01vTUObR6UzxWooCeaAI0QRa8oGA/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgngIX9_plTzbsAHJsRaXNbjMIksBXFgQuA6qICWNmb7Da51k25N1nK67IiRqY1p-Zr6XNO8fz9eRF1jDlE4zaODBS4p4XSK7tl7rnXlNY-qB0ZqkdGZAldcBxhJD6sDjJ1eMD-jJ4OEiVXLsWME3mlsq87vgcJsLOvJDaS_7O_8iXqIPjCMIeG76ViKA/s509/Folder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgngIX9_plTzbsAHJsRaXNbjMIksBXFgQuA6qICWNmb7Da51k25N1nK67IiRqY1p-Zr6XNO8fz9eRF1jDlE4zaODBS4p4XSK7tl7rnXlNY-qB0ZqkdGZAldcBxhJD6sDjJ1eMD-jJ4OEiVXLsWME3mlsq87vgcJsLOvJDaS_7O_8iXqIPjCMIeG76ViKA/s320/Folder.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-EQJZH3ldsKW2cV4WB7LaEsQEwpB9mFdnKDkzN5XBSrgb19-yG-g2Zsam3v8eUuWqRfRi0WQYZ0vkRUmg0BKziIFFM7H0JFJ-7LLSopnH80mnY6JaCX1pK0nZY_2KKNT71C-NRw_NVolXOznJKsvFdphjxl639XnkoDn_vKZJGq1qT95rNWXsI_kjg/s508/Folder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-EQJZH3ldsKW2cV4WB7LaEsQEwpB9mFdnKDkzN5XBSrgb19-yG-g2Zsam3v8eUuWqRfRi0WQYZ0vkRUmg0BKziIFFM7H0JFJ-7LLSopnH80mnY6JaCX1pK0nZY_2KKNT71C-NRw_NVolXOznJKsvFdphjxl639XnkoDn_vKZJGq1qT95rNWXsI_kjg/s320/Folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>From <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/489694-Tomasz-Sta%C5%84ko" target="_blank">discogs</a>:</p><p><i>Tomasz Stańko (born July 11, 1942 in Rzeszów; died July 29, 2018 in Warsaw) was a Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser, associated with free jazz and avant-garde music</i>.</p><p>In the early days (seventies) he did a lot of free jazz / improvised which of course holds no interest to me at all, apologies to those who do enjoy this. Later there is more composed music, very much jazz based, but occasionally with wonderful chamber compostion.</p><p>From Balladyna (1976), <i>The First Song</i>:</p><p><br />
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</p><p><br /></p><p>Title track of Lady Go:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/05-lady-go" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-40851588498163733452024-03-15T18:16:00.000-07:002024-03-15T18:16:18.028-07:00The first Heavy Metal Sextet, 1983<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAl1mEDoWR3Gwsw8bvBzQbZBnYrotNzljD5aaF2boxB7LY3Sm0Z1gqBC3-Glr_ZORB8Xx90THcBcUR_qwTDNrD_gWlkKHD_TzNsLEXPoEN9dQcw-bhIAXvtQbiAAO3w3hGXm1dziljFDof7nol8B8T4dij7cHKlom1uml5QtHfmF-17GAIPd4EO3uYtA/s600/front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAl1mEDoWR3Gwsw8bvBzQbZBnYrotNzljD5aaF2boxB7LY3Sm0Z1gqBC3-Glr_ZORB8Xx90THcBcUR_qwTDNrD_gWlkKHD_TzNsLEXPoEN9dQcw-bhIAXvtQbiAAO3w3hGXm1dziljFDof7nol8B8T4dij7cHKlom1uml5QtHfmF-17GAIPd4EO3uYtA/s320/front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZke1HOWLAexRHwLmXVHG3Ve8O8hQlEkw3za9UZmTnyNkDFwc6OYUEVZzSX4V1xpX3cYY4lHay_ayOPab-biQRed9AMX6wvwyqMc2kvsmY31iI-r-4xDYwTrbt_TXmJq04JiQW6yEOuMbb8W4bGIn0JM5H9SuCZHrCEQyXHbwgHZg-wTruC2V6_fVBQ/s600/back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZke1HOWLAexRHwLmXVHG3Ve8O8hQlEkw3za9UZmTnyNkDFwc6OYUEVZzSX4V1xpX3cYY4lHay_ayOPab-biQRed9AMX6wvwyqMc2kvsmY31iI-r-4xDYwTrbt_TXmJq04JiQW6yEOuMbb8W4bGIn0JM5H9SuCZHrCEQyXHbwgHZg-wTruC2V6_fVBQ/s320/back.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Admittedly <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1370630-Heavy-Metal-Sextet" target="_blank">this one </a>is better (less jazzy, more fusiony) than the <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2024/01/heavy-metal-sextet-1984.html" target="_blank">previously posted one from 1984</a> which came out the next year. Consider the opening track alone:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/a-1-siersciuch" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>There's a bunch of really odd and dissonant riffs in there, and unfortunately and oddly enough the atrociously overplayed standard <i>My Funny Valentine</i> by Rodgers and Hart makes an unexpected and altogether party-crashing appearance too. But on the whole well worth the hearing and listening to.</p><p>Please enjoy this and many thanks to my contacts and friends who find these lost gems I would otherwise have never heard.</p><p>Information again <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1370630-Heavy-Metal-Sextet" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-28689191263218483142024-03-13T03:28:00.000-07:002024-03-13T03:28:22.481-07:00Trierweiler and Beier, Two Decades (1983)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2LeOIYMDmZx4O1cT1e1WcBrReo-4Z3fTYnQssksAro2Aob-M1e6MCy7lHtlx41CgRLBxf82FvvXzH_-WdDvtSLEAB1D9SvAmmyjG2gIpQuiMuf7Q1ZwbGJeS9RK1KZDXyvFOmgz0ciCJp69UuZ0TBgCO0F5H7dwkHydTjzAUN3HF4XbO0I194h068AQ/s510/fr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="510" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2LeOIYMDmZx4O1cT1e1WcBrReo-4Z3fTYnQssksAro2Aob-M1e6MCy7lHtlx41CgRLBxf82FvvXzH_-WdDvtSLEAB1D9SvAmmyjG2gIpQuiMuf7Q1ZwbGJeS9RK1KZDXyvFOmgz0ciCJp69UuZ0TBgCO0F5H7dwkHydTjzAUN3HF4XbO0I194h068AQ/s320/fr.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9PrXbN6EFDUW-jPNH1R3hYt7ibxNjRoGlpzTjzOZLLiru5L0Iy1MR-wcgNz3ONJgb-GPmBU5rJhKdsUUJMPNy9KRBSdGs-feheJr5GlDcjUEQwaEuqZRa8ggbfjdTXNiZLWE9ppthLj7xdOo42ATWKfOKQoyxe35u3GEcoegpjgFIMod9HlQ7gm9lzw/s510/ve.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="510" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9PrXbN6EFDUW-jPNH1R3hYt7ibxNjRoGlpzTjzOZLLiru5L0Iy1MR-wcgNz3ONJgb-GPmBU5rJhKdsUUJMPNy9KRBSdGs-feheJr5GlDcjUEQwaEuqZRa8ggbfjdTXNiZLWE9ppthLj7xdOo42ATWKfOKQoyxe35u3GEcoegpjgFIMod9HlQ7gm9lzw/s320/ve.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>Information for this release <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5384333-Michael-Trierweiler-Chris-Beier-Two-Decades" target="_blank">here</a>. You can see <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/3347318-Michael-Trierweiler" target="_blank">their other album</a> is quite similar.</p><p>Basically it's an interesting mix of trombone (Trierweiler) and various keyboards (<a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/2651830-Chris-Beier" target="_blank">Chris Beier</a>) with differential sounds but usually quite laidback and ambient with both of the two contributing compositions. There are vibes, synthesizers playing havoc in the background, digital keys, muted trombone improvs. Usually the actual composition, such as it is, achieves an atonal or at least dramatically complex sound with dissonant and shifty chords, as on <i>Dark Lady</i>: though I understand not many have a taste for this style, you can learn to enjoy the result. There is one track that reuses some jazz cliches and tropes but luckily it's minimal. In terms of past posts, it's most like the Apocalypse Twilight of van't Hof from <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2016/04/apocalypses-twilight-with-jasper-vant.html" target="_blank">long ago</a> in feel, and equally spacey:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/a-2-lady-dark-eyes" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
</p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely worth the price of admission here ($20 for used LP) and several listens to boot.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-46791482998034405552024-03-11T11:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T12:10:26.754-07:00Back to Monica Tornell with 1977's Bush Lady, by request<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZELXp_3Iba8EmZ1MP-BnT9bP_4KA0vlHFvOo5uEh6e5yNk6gNdx72M2YPQsf9qIHB94tOUjK8vhB6Z_-sYJnqeo8CIxRht7LpBm7dsfCGyFbmCq0mg_H2MvUe_Vl_qIxuYamDJyJXGfGxvnwyWHN4uuuKhmqVEZ8ToQhW6wdTx62SUHquFVysXsGUw/s1852/fr%20sc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1852" data-original-width="1836" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZELXp_3Iba8EmZ1MP-BnT9bP_4KA0vlHFvOo5uEh6e5yNk6gNdx72M2YPQsf9qIHB94tOUjK8vhB6Z_-sYJnqeo8CIxRht7LpBm7dsfCGyFbmCq0mg_H2MvUe_Vl_qIxuYamDJyJXGfGxvnwyWHN4uuuKhmqVEZ8ToQhW6wdTx62SUHquFVysXsGUw/s320/fr%20sc.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0KYzdyuQbfMTGuhy5wabxyIyasU95lPNy7wSbKvDa4y9J7P8Zzk2UomtQJf3IQdV2tI1-EFeERrIL_-reSO8wZ_KqoQxrjgt0fdC8auwU3DtdbUKEy1CtOOzF2G2fxhSXOx0Ey0NVf7jmwoHXTw7KfeekGdYwyarsW4WEXSA4-5YT5g1hRQhpyDWBGQ/s600/R-4207375-1565425424-7378.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="600" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0KYzdyuQbfMTGuhy5wabxyIyasU95lPNy7wSbKvDa4y9J7P8Zzk2UomtQJf3IQdV2tI1-EFeERrIL_-reSO8wZ_KqoQxrjgt0fdC8auwU3DtdbUKEy1CtOOzF2G2fxhSXOx0Ey0NVf7jmwoHXTw7KfeekGdYwyarsW4WEXSA4-5YT5g1hRQhpyDWBGQ/s320/R-4207375-1565425424-7378.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div>I guess this album which came after the hirsute <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2024/02/monica-tornell-in-1974s-dont-give-damn.html" target="_blank">Don't Give a Damn</a> one from 1975, continues in the vein of harder, rawer, more rocky songs with none of the folk that appeared earlier and that in fact reappeared in the next 1978 album posted already earlier. Of note this one was produced by Northern fusion musician (actually, North Carolina born) Stephen Frankevich (or sometimes Franckevich) who plays percussion, trumpets, and writes some material, both songs and lyrics. (The next one used Jason Lindh as producer which gave it a folkier aspect of course.)</div><div><br /></div><div>For us<a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1355224-Stephen-Frankevich?anv=Stephen%20Frankevich&filter_anv=1" target="_blank"> Stephen Frankevich</a> is notable for the fact he played on <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2023/08/soffgruppen-greatest-sits-1975.html" target="_blank">Soffgruppen </a>and <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/677109-Sundance-Sundance" target="_blank">Sundance</a>, both wonderful one-off Scandinavian fusion albums. I posted the former here recently and the latter can be done if requested. It's also a wonderful slice of smooth and breezy fusion, with female vocals to grace it.</div><div><br /></div><div>On this record there are quite a few cover versions and odds and ends, there is a string quartet interlude from Frankevich which makes it somewhat regrettable that he didn't do more arranging duties though it also stands out as completely out of character on an otherwise basic rock album. </div><div><br /></div><div>However his composition called <i>Snowcold Day</i> is perhaps the best track:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/b-2-snowcold-day-franckevich" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It also gives you a sense of how grating her rock singing style can be when she attempts to be rough and loud like Janis Joplin--sorry to those who are fans.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another good track, by the same songwriter, though the harmony vocals near the end are somewhat clunky in arrangement, <i>Say Yes:</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br />
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</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's an album that could have been much better had it matured a bit more or maybe, had it been in the hands of a stellar producer, because it does have potential. At any rate I would say it's the best album from her by a long shot, being not so enamored of her early folkier days.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-62675864646512496312024-03-08T04:49:00.000-08:002024-03-08T04:49:48.979-08:00Eberson in 1977's Blow Out [Flac limited time only]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL7YTimBjz_yDBbYCSmvRZeVDpnDrE11x176UeXHxZTpggb_gxl_dWDzXLBQtl9hJ8gLpqtmsyAgvCJhdL1SFGni6R__PTMoF7zYfjShy6nALfeLqWxDcIDLnOr1aHPPND1llES08XPccLJCq_q_IcNqGt_B9bGMrlnDOD7Vr58kz9hAWhNAYSnjZBwQ/s597/R-1840033-1363881831-1645.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="597" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL7YTimBjz_yDBbYCSmvRZeVDpnDrE11x176UeXHxZTpggb_gxl_dWDzXLBQtl9hJ8gLpqtmsyAgvCJhdL1SFGni6R__PTMoF7zYfjShy6nALfeLqWxDcIDLnOr1aHPPND1llES08XPccLJCq_q_IcNqGt_B9bGMrlnDOD7Vr58kz9hAWhNAYSnjZBwQ/s320/R-1840033-1363881831-1645.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGonWFb-1WCVmnmXf650dzDFzX8MOA6LbrCQNX4GU9zhDPUBeFX-gZ-jkxBLECG-HuxnP8C2iQArIP2gXqxLKqYwNcezP9S3Dcnn7VeLgVnGas7WLywYxMm4KOB5VvMtVwZBxgGLDl_wFC8u3cvDzIeAwBXdOA5lIr1RabDLDtZZ-i9afjcmjjHocwA/s600/R-1840033-1363881851-5241.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="597" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGonWFb-1WCVmnmXf650dzDFzX8MOA6LbrCQNX4GU9zhDPUBeFX-gZ-jkxBLECG-HuxnP8C2iQArIP2gXqxLKqYwNcezP9S3Dcnn7VeLgVnGas7WLywYxMm4KOB5VvMtVwZBxgGLDl_wFC8u3cvDzIeAwBXdOA5lIr1RabDLDtZZ-i9afjcmjjHocwA/s320/R-1840033-1363881851-5241.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUC-c5ZW6w0rQbpKrlnNHodCyf9iVy12wzNwpxG_5LXKafbCR47nrSzBgX4GTXH837kojAAJJ0vYVXiaIcm3kGZpOcjvY1ADK5DKgaUnCSDLuLgyW7wiUtM5-pfFC7CfUK-rTUY20aze15ON2Inmcla_bqlvNNuR5VIK2SVAPJxOt5EcIFZtn0cAj93w/s600/ver.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="600" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUC-c5ZW6w0rQbpKrlnNHodCyf9iVy12wzNwpxG_5LXKafbCR47nrSzBgX4GTXH837kojAAJJ0vYVXiaIcm3kGZpOcjvY1ADK5DKgaUnCSDLuLgyW7wiUtM5-pfFC7CfUK-rTUY20aze15ON2Inmcla_bqlvNNuR5VIK2SVAPJxOt5EcIFZtn0cAj93w/s320/ver.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>That soundtrack-like or movie poster back cover is really something, isn't it?</p><p>I guess this album really belongs with the other Moose Loose ones, it's pretty much a continuation of the same wonderful fusionary style. <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/488301-H%C3%A5kon-Graf-Sveinung-Hovensj%C3%B8-Jon-Eberson-Jon-Christensen-Blow-Out" target="_blank">Here </a>you can see the same people reappearing for sure with the inimitable team of Hakon Graf on keys and Eberson on guitars. It's so intense they sound like an orchestra.</p><p><i>Alive Again</i></p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/05-alive-again" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Electric Bird</i></p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/07-electric-bird" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
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Unfortunately bandmates went in different directions subsequently, cf. Thowsen, Hakon Graf, Eberson, still producing wonderful fusion, but not the collective accomplishment from these two masterpieces. Cf. <i>White</i>:<div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/05-white" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-385334744310819922024-03-03T15:38:00.000-08:002024-03-04T04:12:37.210-08:00Moose Loose 1974, Elgen er Los, FLAC [limited time only]<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYkoNitcphyphenhyphenxGDvFU5NHgBmvevS5j3aUbDvId7P3pWPlK1EAt9pp94YLogEYhvTiTmL2Oi99KjEzykqziuOJqxA99r1cMTz926PJp9w958TrajttZRk-2jXmZUg_eYIuWglSwEnytr-u_4YSasSWnwcpYC3eZwjEWBUDtJbWAqjDVo03Bt-RD5FcfshQ/s600/R-3175931-1424104540-8671.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYkoNitcphyphenhyphenxGDvFU5NHgBmvevS5j3aUbDvId7P3pWPlK1EAt9pp94YLogEYhvTiTmL2Oi99KjEzykqziuOJqxA99r1cMTz926PJp9w958TrajttZRk-2jXmZUg_eYIuWglSwEnytr-u_4YSasSWnwcpYC3eZwjEWBUDtJbWAqjDVo03Bt-RD5FcfshQ/s320/R-3175931-1424104540-8671.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZHBAiyWjuuYDnjhcLpQRS2NYfLC8UWjVgEe6Y84f6VIjXWjthEGn1m-NvADkqva4cwfOLZk_ve265z6Ilo9y3K4XMh6ziTDbRdJKVPclF-VYYka4XeIUW0D-aOqQPcA6xkEyWsY2YTuqAHsI7SFWAKYzvbiaUtQ9817hSVCsZqHhoG76BQ_a5QB_bMQ/s600/R-3175931-1347551017-3137.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZHBAiyWjuuYDnjhcLpQRS2NYfLC8UWjVgEe6Y84f6VIjXWjthEGn1m-NvADkqva4cwfOLZk_ve265z6Ilo9y3K4XMh6ziTDbRdJKVPclF-VYYka4XeIUW0D-aOqQPcA6xkEyWsY2YTuqAHsI7SFWAKYzvbiaUtQ9817hSVCsZqHhoG76BQ_a5QB_bMQ/s320/R-3175931-1347551017-3137.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div>Brilliant, beyond brilliant masterpiece of Scandinavian fusion, and by that geographical adjective we mean interesting and complex ideas, creative thoughts, some dark parts, some bright and illuminated sections, a torrid mix of furious rhythm section and electric guitars and electric pianos, something for everyone who loves music, all in a high-energy high-octane musical rocketship. My favourite track has always been the <i>Flytende oye:</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/03.-flytende-oye" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A 100 percent gold or rather, a trillion percent gold.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-47828052956546203742024-03-02T04:25:00.000-08:002024-03-03T15:42:59.616-08:00Moose Loose Live in 1973 [limited time only]<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBcZF9q6ZuqWbb2jHqTDUfcaD1c_AvV4Ky7j4QnlDCxOdCDqueBJRwYew9lMZp5OltseVZVf3KOFTzlATwbONHucSGIH9hpb5USj1CjB04NaJ7cPcSkkFv1cBwxZ26lJk44j3DSqpe4ZkrLR1JxUS9AZTbhKCLjPeQTE_z9lHBTwPB875Ja8ttkMXxw/s500/Folder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBcZF9q6ZuqWbb2jHqTDUfcaD1c_AvV4Ky7j4QnlDCxOdCDqueBJRwYew9lMZp5OltseVZVf3KOFTzlATwbONHucSGIH9hpb5USj1CjB04NaJ7cPcSkkFv1cBwxZ26lJk44j3DSqpe4ZkrLR1JxUS9AZTbhKCLjPeQTE_z9lHBTwPB875Ja8ttkMXxw/s320/Folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGJScXhiKRe_o-0kSZI4bf_pActYJilKChQUWjX8CyyAk-GKIdr8WCcBVXmiQEEnDqwR0bSMyFKFJmrvUvE5qiRoW7ZmDX_5hItFPoQzvqtvHZf_qFIjhZKd65NU7E-KBeFwOT4OaxMpXESvuTNUjaISuohVbaumOI523_VXu2cNV5y3IYYEKo6wPdA/s599/R-27586347-1688562143-8056.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="594" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGJScXhiKRe_o-0kSZI4bf_pActYJilKChQUWjX8CyyAk-GKIdr8WCcBVXmiQEEnDqwR0bSMyFKFJmrvUvE5qiRoW7ZmDX_5hItFPoQzvqtvHZf_qFIjhZKd65NU7E-KBeFwOT4OaxMpXESvuTNUjaISuohVbaumOI523_VXu2cNV5y3IYYEKo6wPdA/s320/R-27586347-1688562143-8056.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_MA-qsQGUHR5x-74wbGmxh7eGDtevhTEt5lArCJGSItl8v2wtJ1_5hTIKWL2mIvppkQtDbAi9svHiQ8Yb4RZ-fwmwZA6AWM_mau3Bs-Z1QP-b-K0lSkoQTitvF7XTwgA9jVCudaeA34S8ufuS5b8Nc3rUFjjavempfrdCFDAr6uxHss7p3-qFgrOlbA/s599/R-27586347-1688562144-3802.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="599" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_MA-qsQGUHR5x-74wbGmxh7eGDtevhTEt5lArCJGSItl8v2wtJ1_5hTIKWL2mIvppkQtDbAi9svHiQ8Yb4RZ-fwmwZA6AWM_mau3Bs-Z1QP-b-K0lSkoQTitvF7XTwgA9jVCudaeA34S8ufuS5b8Nc3rUFjjavempfrdCFDAr6uxHss7p3-qFgrOlbA/s320/R-27586347-1688562144-3802.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Mentioned with regards to Wadenius <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2109293371654424864/3665104659332212933" target="_blank">back here</a> and of course Thowsen too just before. I love this band with all my heart, featuring some of the finest mixed fusion in the typical Scandinavian style (with darkness, light, and intensity, midnight sun and aurora noons) such as Finnforest, Secret Oyster, <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2019/06/kornets-digital-master-direct-cut-1979.html" target="_blank">Kornet</a>, etc.</p><p>As a result I was surprised to encounter this recent release of a live set from 1973. It's not quite as good as the later studio albums, which came out shortly thereafter, that is in 1974, 1976. Recall the band comprised keyboardist Hakon Graf, the Pal Thowsen I recently posted on percussion, and Eberson on guitar, a wonderful magical combination it seems. For the first album as well as this live one though keyboards were played by <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/482454-Brynjulf-Blix" target="_blank">a guy called Brynjulf Blix</a>. Notably, he was in the other brilliant band called Vanessa I long ago posted and featured <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2017/07/norwegian-band-vanessa-in-1975s-city.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>First track (inappropriately) called <i>Moose Loose</i>:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/01-moose-loose-moose-loose" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Purple</i>:</p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/07-moose-loose-purple" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-6767876070757753182024-02-28T04:01:00.000-08:002024-02-28T04:01:27.363-08:00Pal Thowson in Carnival, 1981, and Sympathy, 1983<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDeQ4hANjUwwV_TSo3OH8cjAu6XZXWTR3-4IoNTxvQMAbI0Q8BjrUhnM74XIayimpQODEu026EwXj9xEIL6AOgn4-lGSX7EJvEDDjxIPLJlr36d7eoD0mrxKXb43PclvIQ9bzvgpQYdb8H5rbSbZTqPcSBxtKCiukW86xjZwwyQJfYaMoUW6Qmx0_emA/s600/fr.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDeQ4hANjUwwV_TSo3OH8cjAu6XZXWTR3-4IoNTxvQMAbI0Q8BjrUhnM74XIayimpQODEu026EwXj9xEIL6AOgn4-lGSX7EJvEDDjxIPLJlr36d7eoD0mrxKXb43PclvIQ9bzvgpQYdb8H5rbSbZTqPcSBxtKCiukW86xjZwwyQJfYaMoUW6Qmx0_emA/s320/fr.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRPWTWdsoUHhZ4nUPqFOhLJcnNMNTQv-VXjN682medraNfCDcHm0h66ej-zO5gXufT_6TBYncJBcmQPKCSrgsRC5FdULDPwDK4_kBPGig-c6C5CnBqP6kMwdCkW4pXl5gk8H5Rv9_F3waCJmFCjxejeFX7_sDtSlF5lForeorhq8BBUcRWtwCOq05zw/s600/ve.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="598" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRPWTWdsoUHhZ4nUPqFOhLJcnNMNTQv-VXjN682medraNfCDcHm0h66ej-zO5gXufT_6TBYncJBcmQPKCSrgsRC5FdULDPwDK4_kBPGig-c6C5CnBqP6kMwdCkW4pXl5gk8H5Rv9_F3waCJmFCjxejeFX7_sDtSlF5lForeorhq8BBUcRWtwCOq05zw/s320/ve.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZWW_C8wfp45fu841O7GtG39oWRB6uF-phTeqSXazphMHCHfmSTV8y-Ija57cgt8TwT0Q2huZLrtTVEIgzNt08ceFp0if1_MMoH7Ug6ck4ddyLm3IS__0ZVzgN5X4ErnQj1peJXn5ACb5Tm1J8AVWuTpUdcpOkdqKIq-abcW_aohdt_iUQe9ZhzCZ6A/s1657/front.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="1640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZWW_C8wfp45fu841O7GtG39oWRB6uF-phTeqSXazphMHCHfmSTV8y-Ija57cgt8TwT0Q2huZLrtTVEIgzNt08ceFp0if1_MMoH7Ug6ck4ddyLm3IS__0ZVzgN5X4ErnQj1peJXn5ACb5Tm1J8AVWuTpUdcpOkdqKIq-abcW_aohdt_iUQe9ZhzCZ6A/s320/front.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_u4fdkmUPJf1UdY-ni9QuohcnMMgD5aMZvh6vGYpT2beqvwOUVsNzJrO29CEkZNFqkpolpU-mKT7LH5KAhfT9G3mRPpfm-mwwSigjHtJSdOOluarrFTPmNk-AKP3XwISERK3k3cGSN9XQeEcB3cIONIoxzOJsFEwh5lbf43SMcBWe_zhLNKMfNLOJ0Q/s612/R-1413250-1347878537-3568.jpeg.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_u4fdkmUPJf1UdY-ni9QuohcnMMgD5aMZvh6vGYpT2beqvwOUVsNzJrO29CEkZNFqkpolpU-mKT7LH5KAhfT9G3mRPpfm-mwwSigjHtJSdOOluarrFTPmNk-AKP3XwISERK3k3cGSN9XQeEcB3cIONIoxzOJsFEwh5lbf43SMcBWe_zhLNKMfNLOJ0Q/s320/R-1413250-1347878537-3568.jpeg.jpg" /></a></div><p>Carnival continues the same wonderful light and smooth fusion style of its predecessor Surprise but on Sympathy he went all out with the commercial songs and therefore holds very little of interest for us here.</p><p>I posted both anyways.</p><p>The music is not quite as brilliant on Sympathy, I guess predictably (since crazy complex and creative originality peaked for fusion in the mid seventies time frame), the full credits can be found on<a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3230011-P%C3%A5l-Thowsen-Carnival" target="_blank"> this page.</a></p><p> Shockingly the album starts off with Gino Vanelli's <i>Brother to Brother</i> composition, recall I raved about his music way <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2021/09/canadian-gino-vanelli-in-7-from.html" target="_blank">back here</a>, long long ago in 2021, and to be honest I still really love his stuff, he was as underrated as they get. He has lost Eberson (sadly) and bassist Arild Andersen, Hakon Graf only contributed one track, but the final one is by our beloved <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2017/11/palle-mikkelborg-ashoka-guadiana.html" target="_blank">Palle Mikkelborg</a>, it's called <i>It was Just a Dream</i> and it's almost as nice as the closer for the preceding one:</p><p><i><br />
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</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The replacement composer for Eberson is trumpeter <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/700682-Fred-N%C3%B8ddelund" target="_blank">Fred Noddelund,</a> who in contrast to the fusion plays a chamber style of music. You get a sense of that here on the <i>Sundown </i>track he wrote:</p><p><br />
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</p><p><br /></p><p>Hakon's track called <i>Highway </i>I'm pretty sure appeared on one of his solo LPs:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/05-highway" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, you get the idea. It's a mixed bag. Not so the next album from 1983, <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5899759-P%C3%A5l-Thowsen-Sympathy" target="_blank">Sympathy</a>, that one is much more monolithic, cohesive, being just a bag of rocks for me. Despite it again featured Eberson and Hakon Graf.</p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-188980515610720212024-02-26T12:31:00.000-08:002024-03-08T16:00:32.770-08:00Pal Thowsen beginning with 1979's Surprise <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApG3onuI7JKREPM8mf5BkOydn6g8jMogDmAhNEbWn0NeHc8CAwnxd9WKp8cZbzCZFMgsGzv6Lp-IsXlv5H4c0OW2ERLSPO2mXGrD2AijpXaSXdsLMROxgxogh3GiQCmZxuijxE6kFzJdVuXY77LQV5vCj7YYn1gpcgHvPebiutRAXIY69u2MVgrDDDA/s600/fr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="596" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgApG3onuI7JKREPM8mf5BkOydn6g8jMogDmAhNEbWn0NeHc8CAwnxd9WKp8cZbzCZFMgsGzv6Lp-IsXlv5H4c0OW2ERLSPO2mXGrD2AijpXaSXdsLMROxgxogh3GiQCmZxuijxE6kFzJdVuXY77LQV5vCj7YYn1gpcgHvPebiutRAXIY69u2MVgrDDDA/s320/fr.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA42Venmoo5Zp1pMPePaa0EwGzkoExKmDFSta3k6jRSDPT5JLVXa-Bb52boDRqBE8rvAPmChZ9s7SGLRlZvHjdFUaCL1EVKO1Lc8CJlnzOK-dCBnwdqOAKz01xqcCxwOFwyeoNrH-HO4k_ccPByxWkHmJvJOfH4j5zOu47wfS8qPh8IB0p5Ohcb_1Xw/s600/R-2279449-1274093472.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA42Venmoo5Zp1pMPePaa0EwGzkoExKmDFSta3k6jRSDPT5JLVXa-Bb52boDRqBE8rvAPmChZ9s7SGLRlZvHjdFUaCL1EVKO1Lc8CJlnzOK-dCBnwdqOAKz01xqcCxwOFwyeoNrH-HO4k_ccPByxWkHmJvJOfH4j5zOu47wfS8qPh8IB0p5Ohcb_1Xw/s320/R-2279449-1274093472.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>A Norwegian jazz drummer, discogged <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/340087-P%C3%A5l-Thowsen" target="_blank">here</a>. 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.)<div><br /><div>For his own works, Thowsen played a really nice, smooth but emotional and at times intense fusion.</div><div>If you take a look at the full credits, available <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/2279449-P%C3%A5l-Thowsen-Surprise" target="_blank">on this particular page,</a> 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.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Rainbow Dance </i>is an Eberson composition:</div><div><br /></div><div><br />
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</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Note the really soft and lovely atmospheric closer called <i>To You</i>, which was also penned by Eberson:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/08-to-you" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>With Hakon of course playing those lovely spacey synth chords.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-28780473983713847292024-02-23T11:02:00.000-08:002024-02-23T11:02:04.084-08:00Frode Thingnaes Quintet's Direct to Disc from 1980<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjLBTw3epHKHyR6YDvO-hDRqixHrj1m8yKYDBh-OvWSdfDbEqwgQWu06Q6gQJSXkHov252kjnPe9YA1NGojoVVbvl-BIWR2eH5reDSCx2t97dpEewb_q9yanpziG0ffqpQW0yOGUQrSYPjxc9YmsfqOUyIO7hudcSZYaov3ZCZvRctnqHl5ODdwErbQ/s500/folder.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjLBTw3epHKHyR6YDvO-hDRqixHrj1m8yKYDBh-OvWSdfDbEqwgQWu06Q6gQJSXkHov252kjnPe9YA1NGojoVVbvl-BIWR2eH5reDSCx2t97dpEewb_q9yanpziG0ffqpQW0yOGUQrSYPjxc9YmsfqOUyIO7hudcSZYaov3ZCZvRctnqHl5ODdwErbQ/s320/folder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwzi_u63DTXOz0aptbbbKD0CH42QbugdcKON_FOC3OIPYnDKLU7y5Z3fcGpfUob9goJUHge-WHjpaCL7HVI1meN_HRVzjhWD_DrPF-2rHJsYdx7eSyBoXsGlNjAj7OJTU-HmJUNdGsXZVMEu01NLb_P69JO2wcqp3Nn75dOZ_x41kY7SblCPyPmZzAw/s600/back.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwzi_u63DTXOz0aptbbbKD0CH42QbugdcKON_FOC3OIPYnDKLU7y5Z3fcGpfUob9goJUHge-WHjpaCL7HVI1meN_HRVzjhWD_DrPF-2rHJsYdx7eSyBoXsGlNjAj7OJTU-HmJUNdGsXZVMEu01NLb_P69JO2wcqp3Nn75dOZ_x41kY7SblCPyPmZzAw/s320/back.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Information for this one <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/2381188-Frode-Thingn%C3%A6s-Quintet-Direct-To-Disc" target="_blank">here</a>. As before in the preceding post the fusion here is so smooth and professionally played it sounds like you're on a late night TV talk show from back in the day and being moved from one stylish velvet elevator to another, quite imperceptibly. With one elevator after another featuring the same sounds, rhythms, melodies, it's difficult to even tell the tracks they're on apart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Consider the opener called <i>Bumpin</i>':</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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That post was, to me, astoundingly popular (the one with the armadillo or pangolin on the cover). </p><p>Discogged <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/720201-Frode-Thingn%C3%A6s" target="_blank">here </a>for informational purposes, with the quintet's discography <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1452651-Frode-Thingn%C3%A6s-Quintet" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Some very very light, very slight fusion here but played with perfect timing and brightness and multiple instruments, not quite orchestralized arrangements. The title track:</p><p><br /></p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/07-night-sounds" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-60947090243982662052024-02-18T04:06:00.000-08:002024-02-18T07:15:06.652-08:00Happy the Man's Muse Awakens, 2004<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE5a4t78b9zi_5DdOw4IbyrDd6m7839pGF1AZB6dhBxfoHjvP1hU0ZZbsJczrRy-sdBT10sld9duBbbVx7zTq6OU2AH47Z2Jfhx5c5Gh7Ebm-Sjtk13IO15p2sq7jVMO7lHtNADjNYDaKBSq0cVVzjojG5QSpIbkKcpEHjZosbp9Qf191h2fuvHf_e4w/s684/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE5a4t78b9zi_5DdOw4IbyrDd6m7839pGF1AZB6dhBxfoHjvP1hU0ZZbsJczrRy-sdBT10sld9duBbbVx7zTq6OU2AH47Z2Jfhx5c5Gh7Ebm-Sjtk13IO15p2sq7jVMO7lHtNADjNYDaKBSq0cVVzjojG5QSpIbkKcpEHjZosbp9Qf191h2fuvHf_e4w/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lz79YVMA-0dOZSyRk13T-up6CF24523EWCqtMHcL_T6_N-nrufCqD3G4ec3cqzGBBzKypfilK4cD1R3oU0kgOFO4e3_HhDTV1rxhGTVHO1V81QxkmZZjkDRj7hnXob0TEMdM5wLFkE8zCb-7FQ9h9gdP_h9gyZSxaVQfhu_P9RFw_G3b3UdavhYdBw/s3402/front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="3402" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lz79YVMA-0dOZSyRk13T-up6CF24523EWCqtMHcL_T6_N-nrufCqD3G4ec3cqzGBBzKypfilK4cD1R3oU0kgOFO4e3_HhDTV1rxhGTVHO1V81QxkmZZjkDRj7hnXob0TEMdM5wLFkE8zCb-7FQ9h9gdP_h9gyZSxaVQfhu_P9RFw_G3b3UdavhYdBw/w400-h171/front.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE5F4YFBtQrxcnXXq8B9ZCZhphDsQ8wOeTfumegXufIlXIRaDyrBflDYFpYL28kWOQJ80g4qwAS3q9FTxxYQFQFn3wTkoooSNQcOmdpmbiGhDbpObQ6NDZYUUgW2tXogmFuLiJvViDv1lX56qj6T8xaO2jEe38ZCZwYKpye3RkXVA59uEl1XL7wSpN0A/s3240/inner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1431" data-original-width="3240" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE5F4YFBtQrxcnXXq8B9ZCZhphDsQ8wOeTfumegXufIlXIRaDyrBflDYFpYL28kWOQJ80g4qwAS3q9FTxxYQFQFn3wTkoooSNQcOmdpmbiGhDbpObQ6NDZYUUgW2tXogmFuLiJvViDv1lX56qj6T8xaO2jEe38ZCZwYKpye3RkXVA59uEl1XL7wSpN0A/w400-h176/inner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Big surprise here, which I wasn't aware of. <div>Obviously we all grew up with (ha ha) this classic Canterbury-style US band from the 70s, <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1004953-Happy-The-Man" target="_blank">discogged </a>as per:<p><i>American progressive rock band from Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, that was formed in 1973, disbanded in 1979 and reformed in 2000. The band released three albums between 1977 and 1983 (the third was recorded in 1979, but first released in 1983). After a long hiatus, Happy The Man released a new album in 2004 with a new drummer and new additional keyboardist.</i></p><p>It's a bit surprising because I always assumed <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/95872-Kit-Watkins" target="_blank">Kit Watkins</a> was the main compositional force behind those wonderful early albums, but of course he's absent on this one, replaced by a certain <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/256175-Dave-Rosenthal" target="_blank">David Rosenthal.</a> Despite the switcheroo the music is consistently strong, and perfectly representative progressive rock, quite 70s based, still keyboards dominant, but with the dissonances, the synths, the emotional elements that make it fully compelling, with a great deal of variety, odd changes and interesting arrangements, just as you'd expect. Well, sometimes our expectations are low for these later releases, but in this case they exceed them magnificently.</p><p>It starts off with <i>Contemporary Insanity</i>:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/01-contemporary-insanity" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
</p><p><br /></p><p>I love anything and everything relating to Hawai'i and can't resist posting any track homaging those beautiful Garden of Eden isles of the mid-Pacific, and <i>Maui Sunset</i> really brings it home (those poor folks are still recovering from the horrific fire in Lahaina last year, let's remember that dreadful consequence of climate change's cruelty):</p><p><br />
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</p><p><br /></p><p>Altogether a wonderful album and a delight to listen to, I will for sure be paying close attention to these tracks in the days to come, or as they say in other places: '<i>monitoring the situation very closely</i>.'</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-82406783270244634352024-02-16T05:25:00.000-08:002024-02-16T05:25:31.526-08:00Freedon from 1990 Switzerland<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaRBlbrfmr3xhkYcwrOETM7rRnO_lJ07669Nupz9-AU_EC0tBOFKD0OKkz95NlhN2Tb_tvUXY9iEhKHc7AR2wkiU2NtUaIol9FnqFVKFBR-_3rz-L6yv1rg_Jt3LKR5fkSmI6jkQz5zMxMorn0gpIX9W7szhXA22tjQlj10rwb1SRx-1VyiZKEW07KA/s600/fr%20sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaRBlbrfmr3xhkYcwrOETM7rRnO_lJ07669Nupz9-AU_EC0tBOFKD0OKkz95NlhN2Tb_tvUXY9iEhKHc7AR2wkiU2NtUaIol9FnqFVKFBR-_3rz-L6yv1rg_Jt3LKR5fkSmI6jkQz5zMxMorn0gpIX9W7szhXA22tjQlj10rwb1SRx-1VyiZKEW07KA/s320/fr%20sm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDIYf0wzigvotXDNO5sKOKX0cc3-qOsOw9hPXFWxyT7abaeHylex_E2BQb9j_cm9o7MsI9qIF6PO7Q00PpoSIbFg2d9S1oMFbnFFYYoOyyvu15GLdLuGcEHiPfTP4b_kBuw1dq4AjPnItVIo-F6w0S5Ge-_b4_5lIm-UbsGCdbBe_qRiyPlEW7L0wkg/s600/ve%20sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDIYf0wzigvotXDNO5sKOKX0cc3-qOsOw9hPXFWxyT7abaeHylex_E2BQb9j_cm9o7MsI9qIF6PO7Q00PpoSIbFg2d9S1oMFbnFFYYoOyyvu15GLdLuGcEHiPfTP4b_kBuw1dq4AjPnItVIo-F6w0S5Ge-_b4_5lIm-UbsGCdbBe_qRiyPlEW7L0wkg/s320/ve%20sm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p>Paltry info from <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/6022014-Freedon-2" target="_blank">discogs</a>:</p><p><i>Swiss jazz-rock group from Berne, led by Don Pfäffli (a.k.a. Don Li), active in early 1990s.</i></p><p>LP info <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/10593699-Freedon-Freedon" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>For sure this is advanced, somewhat dissonant fusion, electric guitar based, all instrumental. There is thankfully a lot of variety with some ballads, slower stuff, more advanced, more simple. Most of the tracks were written by bandleader <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1271480-Don-Pf%C3%A4ffli" target="_blank">Don</a>. Not sure why this came up in search history but it's for sure undeservedly unknown, with not much of those annoying musical 80s-90s tendencies / cliches which we all know so well.</p><p>First track (<i>Fat Brother</i>) is a great example of the uptempo material:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/a-1-fat-brother" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
</p><p><br /></p><p>While <i>Hurt of Love</i> showcases the more balladic elements:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/b-3-hurt-of-love" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe>
</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-62149815196777526352024-02-14T04:07:00.000-08:002024-02-14T04:07:23.898-08:00Double Image by Hitoshi Okano from 1982<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn41SyDgGGB_Ju4w8Nogwm84mE2H34T2ZF7O4v2yY5dhNiavGo0J7QuByQYDZvVKEJqtF0EXDXMB6UtDd3wNOpIad1_6YzT8kxDfEsATvDcssaBDCd04ahA7zgPBD-4zyC8RRzANzFFy_p7Am4C5kKA5QZjBdR0q295nFRloZs2UQUsp7vlJfkf8DdfQ/s1844/fr%20sc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1844" data-original-width="1836" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn41SyDgGGB_Ju4w8Nogwm84mE2H34T2ZF7O4v2yY5dhNiavGo0J7QuByQYDZvVKEJqtF0EXDXMB6UtDd3wNOpIad1_6YzT8kxDfEsATvDcssaBDCd04ahA7zgPBD-4zyC8RRzANzFFy_p7Am4C5kKA5QZjBdR0q295nFRloZs2UQUsp7vlJfkf8DdfQ/s320/fr%20sc.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTihSJlUq-0VWPUbxTSxWhVOIs__kpesR3v4gqKA3A9loMxWkdnGEt0UsFmzo0ea1yojk5tr-eS4eLIsaKmfUE_voPxeYtCTwx5IFV3STYsVZvJdJCVwSteb0TrXJcdUDUN7njCZjW_FG1RsxEfArdksXHg1bibjfmCo3mOyZGq4dYN-ANZgP99Ldjnw/s1836/ver%20sc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1810" data-original-width="1836" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTihSJlUq-0VWPUbxTSxWhVOIs__kpesR3v4gqKA3A9loMxWkdnGEt0UsFmzo0ea1yojk5tr-eS4eLIsaKmfUE_voPxeYtCTwx5IFV3STYsVZvJdJCVwSteb0TrXJcdUDUN7njCZjW_FG1RsxEfArdksXHg1bibjfmCo3mOyZGq4dYN-ANZgP99Ldjnw/s320/ver%20sc.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I encountered this one in connection with <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2024/01/japanese-arakawa-band-part-2-beast-must.html" target="_blank">Hard Boiled</a>, from the amazing Arakawa.<p></p><div><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/9247209-Hitoshi-Okano-Double-Image" target="_blank">Here </a>are the credits for the LP. </div><div>Hitoshi Okano:</div><div><i>Japanese jazz trumpet player. Born November 9, 1948 in Tokyo, Japan</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The music is squarely in the instrumental acoustic contemporary jazz tradition but luckily no standards were delved in.</div><div><br /></div><div>However there is a track that does some really nice Miles Davis style fusion called Infinite Pale:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/b-3-infinite-pale" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-451662406340177832024-02-12T14:43:00.000-08:002024-02-12T14:43:26.195-08:00Monica Tornell in 1974's Don't Give a Damn<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzv1DKpMHIZhmsJx7yg2zKqewE_BLO2Bci99Uiu2sWPB05T2fCGkLwLNKIHl53XUf7h_zTPRVTUI0Cwd1Ck9iLvmNXeiI3toPDTOnSypO1b531XGl5C158qi3w5E6gBnlklS2QfLysYJKrJ1sqzUW9TDKgCW5G2cDzbmWPRbILayjUloYPPJP-MgIEvg/s600/fr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="600" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzv1DKpMHIZhmsJx7yg2zKqewE_BLO2Bci99Uiu2sWPB05T2fCGkLwLNKIHl53XUf7h_zTPRVTUI0Cwd1Ck9iLvmNXeiI3toPDTOnSypO1b531XGl5C158qi3w5E6gBnlklS2QfLysYJKrJ1sqzUW9TDKgCW5G2cDzbmWPRbILayjUloYPPJP-MgIEvg/s320/fr.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZGOAktoB8Xq1zFNNQss7ObcL3aupVQRlB9LIAID8PzzikdxxbWyhyphenhyphenOB13e1BqxiN70ci3-AJICPMa_XNMRpzlqRzMh_-c8mMiQgwtaKTPn08GMc3yIDIPakjgIiYZZ1vJAMejPXHKcu0wKcwW_uutwZLl3jOw5EHH8USzcKBptFIkVGw5YES1rMWuA/s600/ver%20sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="600" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZGOAktoB8Xq1zFNNQss7ObcL3aupVQRlB9LIAID8PzzikdxxbWyhyphenhyphenOB13e1BqxiN70ci3-AJICPMa_XNMRpzlqRzMh_-c8mMiQgwtaKTPn08GMc3yIDIPakjgIiYZZ1vJAMejPXHKcu0wKcwW_uutwZLl3jOw5EHH8USzcKBptFIkVGw5YES1rMWuA/s320/ver%20sm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Information on this one <a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3635832-Monica-T%C3%B6rnell-Dont-Give-A-Damn" target="_blank">here</a>. Might be a good idea not to look too closely at the cover photo which shows to some grooming extent that she really doesn't give a damn.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was surprised the beautiful track <i>An Angel Died</i> was written by country singer <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/295181-Bobbie-Gentry" target="_blank">Bobbie Gentry</a> (of <i>Ode for Billie Joe</i> fame and I'm pretty sure I don't want to hear her version):</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/b-2-an-angel-died-bobbie-gentry" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And this album is a mixed bag, with John Lennon's (highly overplayed) <i>Jealous Guy </i>making an appearance, she does try to hard rock it out on certain tracks with mixed success especially vocally, though the "Weekend" composition is pretty listenable, this album, on the whole, does feature one of the single worst songs I've ever heard in recent years, the title track which is atrociously repetitive to the point where by the end she even starts laughing as she keeps repeating <i>don't give a damn, </i>I mean you have to hear it to believe it folks.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-80337657627473645342024-02-09T12:35:00.000-08:002024-02-09T12:36:17.384-08:00Monica Tornell in a few albums from the seventies<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFfZmhKAETVYi0ukmm2Fgdro6xCBq1_LdIliHJ46B0nAivb-sUOBf0rLcMZolNA0D9BPLumTRgQDIrArq7DS_Q80LU8BDbqBQDE-qYbB6HeGPmgWVPhJZW3oKdHO_pJAH4BrtzraB32T2E0jCcGxu3Br_BiVySlDieT5QAyqS6KEp9c_kxxPB7wKaQQ/s600/fr.jpg" style="display: block; 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padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJkDm45JkDiXmllaGa8-xnhPmLBHzaWKmQy_ZqGG_YYjFWKLIl6k-RdW9bODDo0guwozcICFIq8l5cMKhS2t9bjJpXtBhaQNlOA33TKxIfeB9TduE8wEBHRg0c6TLFS6tsFebI0SpUowPp7ZLCgCqxo8wHNAcmRK1L9q73MSXqNbMAb1rDtUw3BkFCA/s320/R-2782077-1481470399-9799.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">She was a folky singer songwriter from Sweden, see <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/323920-Monica-T%C3%B6rnell" target="_blank">discogs</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Swedish singer and songwriter, born June 3, 1954 in Trönö parish in Hälsingland (Gävleborgs län).</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>After being discovered by Cornelis Vreeswijk in 1971, she was for two decades a prominent singer in several genres, mainly show and rock. Together with Lasse Holm, she sang Sweden's contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway in 1986. In 2017, she released Understanding Eye, which is her first own album in 25 years</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'm always on the lookout for something on the level of the great and beloved (and still underrated)<a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/search/label/Carita%20Holmstr%C3%B6m" target="_blank"> Carita Holmstrom</a>, but of course that doesn't happen every day, not even more than once a lifetime actually. Of course sometimes we don't have more than one lifetime. ( Here I'm thinking of the great Elon. ) I mean, setting aside (billionaire) Taylor Swift of course who is without a doubt the greatest musician / composer of all time, I think we can all 100 percent agree on that, right? I guess if she married Drake or whoever and combined creative forces, then all the other artists can just give up right now, correct???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />Anyways, here and there Monica has some interesting pieces, interspersed with the presumably political lyrics.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">From the first album the gently hyperemotional <i>Var Nara Mig </i>sounds a lot like <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/615682-Turid" target="_blank">Turid</a>, who is another artist everyone should be familiar with (if you're not a "Swiftie"):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The title track from the 1978 <a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1241293-Monica-T%C3%B6rnell-Jag-%C3%84r-Som-Jag-%C3%84r" target="_blank">Jar Ar Som Jag Ar</a> sounds a little like Carita even, but the part where she reverts to talking instead of singing is a little annoying to me:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As kind of might be expected<a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/913900-Monica-T%C3%B6rnell-Fri" target="_blank"> in the 80s</a> she threw all her chips into the pot with the digital drums, synths, bouncy rhythms, echoey overproduced sound, but the track called <i>Någon I Ditt Liv </i>is actually quite good with its unusual, unexpected modulations mid-choruses:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Surprisingly some of her albums have never been digitized. I'll be back with more ripped vinyl therefore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-44777439125262794402024-02-07T05:24:00.000-08:002024-02-07T05:24:33.435-08:00Back to Yoshiaki Miyanoue in Mellow Around, from 1980 [by request]<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRy2ft2QzXJp56q6O7TEVwuZEF16d15vn3UfC2A5Mc9lFTFKkLKSt7UDT652zl9WfgpZrM3YgwThxMvJWCMi7lKFkRrKZ91oifKlFCS64Ffq1fPtDGH1wHMUfD6wm39JZpty-PqMz4ykTRdvGzUSylwEcH_-8uIng0F2M_zrXYDUG14kA5hFl7Jxp47A/s1841/fr%20sc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1841" data-original-width="1836" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRy2ft2QzXJp56q6O7TEVwuZEF16d15vn3UfC2A5Mc9lFTFKkLKSt7UDT652zl9WfgpZrM3YgwThxMvJWCMi7lKFkRrKZ91oifKlFCS64Ffq1fPtDGH1wHMUfD6wm39JZpty-PqMz4ykTRdvGzUSylwEcH_-8uIng0F2M_zrXYDUG14kA5hFl7Jxp47A/s320/fr%20sc.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrdz2YEsanSXVGOP6sgkIrcbahecCzpYrtFFEN8gcvmMKynbB4avSm9MSNFvUH7TcL-c9KfEmtn8Als5uJoyPgs8D40hhKXaZnavDipLxhJRapWM_8i1fTmjLPw1XLS4yhu8RnkuboXD9k_vZ9zTHsSDV4v8286nRvMpXEGgWdZzkRdlFbrF-AWK-Sw/s1843/ver%20sc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1843" data-original-width="1836" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYrdz2YEsanSXVGOP6sgkIrcbahecCzpYrtFFEN8gcvmMKynbB4avSm9MSNFvUH7TcL-c9KfEmtn8Als5uJoyPgs8D40hhKXaZnavDipLxhJRapWM_8i1fTmjLPw1XLS4yhu8RnkuboXD9k_vZ9zTHsSDV4v8286nRvMpXEGgWdZzkRdlFbrF-AWK-Sw/s320/ver%20sc.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Lovely cover photograph of a clipper ship on the waters...</p><p>I posted some of his later stuff here.</p><p><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/5355661-Yoshiaki-Miyanoue-Mellow-Around" target="_blank">On this LP </a>he is accompanied by an orchestral string section conducted by <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1527934-Chikara-Ueda" target="_blank">Chikara Ueda.</a> Remember him? I put some of his stuff <a href="https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2021/12/chikara-ueda-and-power-station-in.html" target="_blank">back here</a> and it was quite lush and warm just as it is in this instance.</p><p>We also encountered the lovely track <i>No Cry, No End, </i>earlier with Chikara:</p><p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="60" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/b-4-no-cry-no-end" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="500"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>This gives you a great idea of what the whole album is like, strings-augmented light fusion instrum. compositions throughout. </p><p>Good tracks here and there, worth hearing, worth the purchase of the LP. Should try to get the next missing album.</p><p>Enjoy...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Julianryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00231800332765236791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109293371654424864.post-25787770025452614632024-02-05T11:47:00.000-08:002024-02-05T11:47:42.092-08:00Lubat Louiss Engel Group Live In Montreux 1972 [+ FLAC]<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhGYkTtqeGpPiOklQCjMQJc1uosavDEmdTU9XFiEZqc5nGbxWVYVDKKAO7-_ch0XbQDafTDYwnvKXcpZRKv_vs9FxbRdzMKz1-PME6KcGuMOv7ZL3n36gnbg5-Vx-h7hU5FHa_RySoY9BesA6c3gl50yzzVDOJKyR7hAsEUD96fdm2KE8iq8lIk-jSg/s3685/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3685" data-original-width="3685" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhGYkTtqeGpPiOklQCjMQJc1uosavDEmdTU9XFiEZqc5nGbxWVYVDKKAO7-_ch0XbQDafTDYwnvKXcpZRKv_vs9FxbRdzMKz1-PME6KcGuMOv7ZL3n36gnbg5-Vx-h7hU5FHa_RySoY9BesA6c3gl50yzzVDOJKyR7hAsEUD96fdm2KE8iq8lIk-jSg/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-7S7Rz76K7kG_dBmzk3EIohIDw8oibZrhobokwjdaOZUunO5crRRJkpe6-agnsDk7gb-nhJFMGwBM7G1HoSa8Qkvvp5HrBp9ulvPfU10CgbPjD62udxomO648Fqzf7GQB0qKwRzWHqvgzX3a44Gyn2U4u_uphpzFQeT2yOm-9jXcPMRobyOQL7o_lw/s3685/back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3685" data-original-width="3685" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-7S7Rz76K7kG_dBmzk3EIohIDw8oibZrhobokwjdaOZUunO5crRRJkpe6-agnsDk7gb-nhJFMGwBM7G1HoSa8Qkvvp5HrBp9ulvPfU10CgbPjD62udxomO648Fqzf7GQB0qKwRzWHqvgzX3a44Gyn2U4u_uphpzFQeT2yOm-9jXcPMRobyOQL7o_lw/s320/back.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/938992-Lubat-Louiss-Engel-Group-Live-At-Montreux-72" target="_blank">Credits</a>:<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Composed By – Bernard Lubat (tracks: A2, B2), Claude Engel (tracks: A1, B1)<br />Drums, Percussion [Percussions], Piano, Electric Piano, Voice – Bernard Lubat<br />Electric Bass – Marc Bertaux<br />Electric Guitar – Claude Engel<br />Engineer [Ingénieur Du Son] – Stephen Sulke*<br />Organ, Electric Piano [Piano Électrique (Fender)] – Eddy Louiss<br />Producer [Direction Artistique], Mixed By [Mixage] – Emmanuel "Pinpin" Sciot*<br />Recorded June 19 1972.</i></div><p><i>Made in France.</i></p><p>Despite the discogs description, this is fusion and not contemporary jazz, but does feature a lot of improvisation.</p><p>I was always amazed by the vibrato electric piano of <i>Mickey Schroeder's Dream </i>which was composed by Bernard of course:</p><p><i><br />
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