Swedish vocals
International relevance: *
Ture Nerman was a journalist, radical social democrat (sometimes communist), anti-militarist, dedicated teetotaller, and for his time something as unusual as a vegetarian (he was born in 1886 and died in 1969). He was also a poet, and harbouring such sentiments as the ones mentioned above, his poems were well equipped for being set to music in the progg era. Some of the songs use older melodies by for instance Joe Hill, while several were written specifically for this project by Björn Arahb.
Being released on the Social Democrats'
in-house label A-Disc, this is every bit as boring as you can
imagine. There's no doubting that the sentiments of Arahb and fellow
singer (and actor) Monica Nielsen are honest and genuine, but once
again, whatever emotional impact this could have had with less
self-righteous performances, soulfulness is substituted with
oversinging. The musical framework is also typical of the ilk; it's
either semi-cabaret-like or it sounds like The Labour Day Marches
Greatest Hits.
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