Songwriting and performing trio existing a couple of years early seventies, consisting of Norwegians Arne Dahlö and Björn Gjerström plus British Charles R Forbes. This one-off album is sometimes by sellers tagged as a private press and sometimes as a legit one on an obscure budget label. No sure which myself, but in any case not pressed in many copies. As the story goes recorded in London and backed by members of Norwegian prog band Junipher Green. Often when non-sellers from the past show up as rarities today you can hear a reason they didn't do that well - blunt songs, bad performance, subpar audio or all of those. But that's not the case here. This is high quality all through. A strange mix of jazzy, folky, prog and psych. Never on the edge, more soft and dreamy, sung by both male and female vocals to organ, piano, flute or even full orchestra. I can hear some resemblance with US sunshine pop of the late sixties and some slightly reminding of Brazil bossa. So a rather unique blend very good to the ears. Favorite track - "Wichita Falls", which also was released as a 45. Full album below. Also reissued on Norwegian CD 2021 (Norske Albumklassikere NACD 121). To my knowledge this was the only vinyl release, with label as shown here in a laminated cover. (SCÄ*) (FÄV*)
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