The debut album from this artist from Norway.
Ole G Nilssen did the guitars and vocals on this album.
He had help from eight guests who contributed with drums, percussion, bass, acoustic guitars, violin, moog, piano, organ, flute, flugelhorn, saxophone and vocals.
I was tipped off about this album through the Norske Albumklassikere series in Norway who intend to re-release LPs on CDs. One of them was this LP and artist I had never heard about before.
Ole G Nilssen comes from the north of Norway, just below the Arctic Circle and in addition to his eight solo albums, he later started up another band called Solaris who also released an LP and who has also been re-released through the Norske Albumklassikere series.
Ole G Nilssen is now a professor in music in a university in Norway.
... Which brings us to the music on this album. The music here is like a study of various music genres from the 1970s.
Take symphonic prog, add some soul, pop, fusion, folk rock and rock to the mix. All of it with this rich 1970s sound.
The vocals is really good and the good moog sound is with us throughout the forty minutes long album.
The music is really all over the place. There is a method in the songs and "symphonic" is the word that describes most of it.
There is no doubts this is a hidden gem in the Norwegian and European prog rock scene. The quality is really good throughout too.
Check out this good album if this sounds interesting to you.
3 points
No comments:
Post a Comment