Instrumental
International relevance: **
Thommie Fransson's most respectable
contribution to progg is having played on John Holm's masterful
”Lagt kort ligger” from 1974, but he turns up on several other
albums in the 70's. His lone solo LP appeared in 1981, and proves
that studio musicians don't necessarily are suited for making their
own albums.
Fransson may look like a cheerful Frankie Miller on the cover, but ”An Apache Enigma” is all instrumental with guitar
playing in a lightweight symphonic Mike Oldfield style on one hand,
and tiresome heavy metal soloing to a synthetic backdrop on the
other. The softer tracks sounds like background music to sundowns and dawns on TV. The only track of some merit is the pleasant ”Emilie” that was also released as the 'B' side to
Fransson's only solo single ”Firefly Dance”, also culled from the
album.
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