Bo Hansonn Music inspired by Lord Of the rings (EX/VG++) pour 12 euros (j'ai craqué, mais c'est l'original sur Charisma)
Il vaut quoi ce disque ? J'en entends parler depuis quelques temps, je l'ai déjà croisé (une fois chez un disquaire à Paris me semble-t-il), mais je ne m'y suis jamais intéressé.
Pour être space, il est space...
J'ai assez aimé (dans un état second il passe encore mieux) mais il faut vraiment être calé en prog, notamment tendance électrique. Sinon vous vous faites ch...
Voici une critique enthousiaste que j'ai trouvé sur le net (je mets en évidence les passages plus importants):
Here's a little history of Bo Hansson: in the 1960s,
he was one half of a duo named Hansson & Karlsson. Bo Hansson played the organ, and Janne Karlsson played the drums. They released a handful of albums in the late 1960s: Swedish Underground (1967), Monument (1967), Rex (1968), and Man at the Moon (1968). None of them are exactly easy to come by, so I'm unable to tell you how those albums are like.
They toured and jammed with Jimi Hendrix on his European tour. The duo then broke up in 1969. Karlsson, oddly became a comedian. And
Hansson went solo and released four albums from the early to late 1970s (and an obscure 1985 album called Mitt i Livet), and Lord of the Rings was the first of them.
The album was originally released in Sweden in 1970 as Sagan Om Ringen (and all the songs beared Swedish titles) on the Silence label (which was also the very first album ever released on that label) with a totally different cover.
In 1972, Charisma Records (a well-respected British prog label that gave us the likes of Rare Bird, Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill, Lindisfarne, Capability Brown, and even Monty Python)
released this album with the current English title (Lord of the Rings), the much more familiar album cover, and the songs now beared English titles. This album featured Bo Hansson on Hammond organ, Moog, guitar, bass, Sten Bergman on flute, Gunnar Bergsten on sax, and Rune Carlsson on drums. Bergsten and Bergman had also been in a progressive jazz rock band called Fläsket Brinner (check out their 1971 self-entitled offering). To me, I think Hansson's Lord of the Rings is truly one of the most enchanting albums I have ever heard.
Lots of mystical sounding Hammond organ and synthesizers, this music is perfect for LotR. Some of my favorites include "The Old Forest/Tom Bombadil", the spooky "Fog on the Barrow-Downs" (complete with a howling wolf), and "The Black Riders/Flight to the Ford" (which almost sounds like how Santana might have been if they were Scandinavian).
Some of the album bears a slight resemblance to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, except for the fact TB wasn't released until three years later (perhaps Oldfield heard LotR). I have seen the recent LotR movie The Fellowship of the Ring, and I loved it, I was imagining would it would have been liked if they used Bo Hansson's music for that film, instead of your typical Hollywood orchestral fare and Enya. I understand that not everyone would like Bo Hansson's LotR. Many of them are fans of Tolkien's books. Many have seen the 2001 movie, and a few are aware of that 1978 animated.
But the problem is if you don't like prog rock, then chances are you won't like this album.
The album has a rather home made production to it, and even me, as a big prog rock fan, the album does have its flaws, mostly the problem is the repetition. But that fairytale atmosphere makes up for its shortcomings. Bo Hansson, by the way, is the only Swedish prog rock artist I know of whose albums had U.S. releases.
If you happen to be both a prog rock fan and a fan of Tolkien's LotR, then chances are you'll enjoy this album. Un petit exemple:
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