Saturday, March 18, 2023

Bazar - Drabantbyrock (1974)

The one and only album from this band from Norway.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, harmonica, piano, organ, keyboards and vocals.

This album was a one-off album released on a local record label. The vocals are in Norwegian and pretty leftist as the album was released on a far-left record label.

The music is a mix of 1970s hard rock, hard prog and folk rock. Led Zeppelin meets Rush and Jethro Tull. There is a lot of hard guitars here. Indeed, the album's closing song is a guitar solo jam.

There are also some pretty pastoral songs here. 

The lyrics are about growing up the suburbia of Oslo. Off course with a leftist, simplified take on the issues. This was Norway anno 1970s and I grew up during those times. 

The vocals and guitars are good. There are a couple of good songs here but most of them are decent. 

This is a nice album, recently re-released on CD through the Norske Albumklassikere series. Check it out.

2 points



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