The debut album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, piano, electric piano, flute and vocals.
This band from the west coast of Norway released three albums before they split up. Two of their members recently passed on.
The band is most known for it's cooperation with the local folk music scene. But that was only on their third album. An album I currently do not have but which I think I will order now. I got their second album Horn and a review will follow later this month.
Saft was a big band in Norway back in the 1970s. One of their songs was and is still banned in BBC because the verse includes the big F word. The song is All The Time. It is the one and only song they submitted to BBC and it got banned.....
The music is a mix of folk, prog and psych rock. Mostly psych rock.
The vocals are a mix of English and Norwegian. The music is rather pastoral and has a lot of good vocal harmonies. Crosby, Stills & Nash sometimes springs to mind.
Their version of Eleanor Rigby, the great Beatles song, is a rather throw away version. The rest of the album is rather good with the banned song All The Time being a good song.
I only knew this band by reputation before getting this album and this album has been quite an eye opener.
Not everything is good here but there is a lot to be happy about on this album. Check it out.
2.5 points
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