Swedish lyrics, instrumental
International relevance: */*
A completely unknown artist – I find
no traces of his two (presumably only) albums on the Internet, at the
time of writing not even on Discogs. So I assume they're very rare
and only released locally in what I assume from the record label's
address is Karlsson's native town Ulricehamn on the Swedish west
coast.
”Själens natt” (”night of the
soul”) is largely instrumental, with only a couple of vocal tracks
sung by the annoying Ingrid Jonsson who sounds like Christian singer,
if you get my drift. She's still better than Karlsson himself, who
sings so out of tune and out of breath to a dreary church organ on
closing track ”Tre skopor mull” that it's bordering on the
laughable. The remainder of the album is either moody
psuedo-classical piano music, or tracks with equal traces of Parisian
café music and Swedish folk thanks to the addition of accordeon and
violin. A promo insert quotes from reviews published in the local
Ulricehamn press but for all I know that could just as well be
fake...
The title of the second album means ”a
poet” in English so you could tell that Karl Gustav Karlsson raised
the level of ambition after his debut. That's code for 'now even more
pretentious'. With Ingrid Jonsson out of the way, Karlsson now feels
compelled to take care of all the vocals himself. That includes
melodramatic recitation...
The album drags on endlessly and is
even harder to sit through than ”Själens natt”. While nowhere as bad
as say, John-Erik Axelsson, it's still a genuine endurance test.
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