Sunday, February 25, 2024

Høgt Gras - Frihet (1982)

The one and only album from this band from Norway.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, congas, guitars, flute and vocals.

This album got a very regional release in Norway and was mostly only sold on the north-west coast of Norway. This is where the band comes from. The album was then re-released on CD last year through Norske Albumklassikere and I got a copy of it.

To call it an album is wrong. It is clocking in at barely seventeen minutes and I feel a bit short-changed. But the album was very popular on Discogs, selling for small fortunes and a re-release was and is in order.

The music is a mix of folk rock, funk, punk, Frank Zappa and Jethro Tull. The vocals are in Norwegian.

Half of the songs are decent and the rest of songs are best forgotten. The Frank Zappa influenced songs are a bit lost if Norwegian is not your language.

In short, this is a half-decent album and I am not impressed. 

1.5 points




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