Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Rain - Norsk Suite (1969)

The debut album from this band from Norway.

The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

I belive this band released altogether four albums before they gave up the ghost. This album was released in a handful copies before it saw a more official release on a German label in 2012. This only on LP and I will tip of the Norges Album Klassikere team for a re-release on CD as they are already crowdfunding the release of their debut album.

The band is a pretty unique band as they were mostly working with theatres in Scandinavia and were composing music for these theatres. Those jobs were secure and well paid. Being a rock star was hardly paid at all. Hence, the main part of their career was in theatres and theatre productions. 

Norsk Suite is a strange album indeed..... It starts with their version of the Beatles classic A Day In Life before the band continues with one of their own songs and then does another The Beatles cover..... Strawberry Fields Forever. They have also done a cover of John Lennon's track Isolation.

Strange...

The music on this album is psych rock. There are some avant-garde stuff here too. Lots of it, to be precise. 

The music is very diverse and at times; unhinged.

This is not an easy listening album, this fifty minutes long album. The music is decent enough and should satisfy those into quirky, eclectic psych rock.

2 points



 

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