The sixth album from this band from Finland.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, cowbells, bass, guitars, organ, piano, saxophones, flute and vocals.
This album is a recording made in 1971 for the YLE Broadcasting Company in Finland. Their first vocalist Frank Robson is on vocals.
There is not much vocals on these four tracks though.
The music is heavy and hard jazz rock. Fusion as you may want to label it.
The music is also eclectic with some very obvious King Crimson influences.
There are also some more pastoral dense jazz pieces here. Some really eclectic jazz, indeed.
This is not an official album. My guess is that these recordings was not released back in 1973 because the music here is far more pure jazz and eclectic prog than the band had released up to then... and later. These four pieces of music does not fit the picture, indeed the image of the band they gave on their semi-classic Lambertland album.
Thankfully, Svart Records gave these four pieces of music it's rightful release and the result is a good album. An album quite different from the five other albums but still a good album.
I really like this band and may get their live albums too for my private enjoyment. Lambertland was their crowning glory though and a semi-classic album from Scandinavia.
Check out this album.
3 points
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