The one and only album from this artist from Norway.
Ivar Gafseth did the vocals in additon to playing clavinet, accordion, piano, organ, keyboards, vibraphone, tambourine and synths.
He got help from some guests who provided drums, bass, guitars, banjo and saxophone. A female vocalist added additional backing vocals and a choir added their voices too.
Ivar Gafseth was a member of Difference, a band with moderate success who played Procol Harum like art-rock and progressive rock.
Someone gave him a solo contract and the result was this album.
The LP, and last year's CD re-release through the NAK series, is divided into a Norwegian and an English vocals part. On the LP, that means side A and B on this forty minutes long album.
The Norwegian part has some disco and overblown inoffensive pop/rock. It is a pretty dire side A.
The music is a slight improvement when the language are English. Some Procol Harum influences are evident. There are still some funk here and some very pedestrian pop/rock.
The vocals are decent enough and ditto for the musical contributions.
The result is a half-decent album which is better left as a piece of Norwegian pop/rock history. It is an album only for record collectors.
1.5 points
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