Thursday, August 23, 2018

PREFIX – Brustna illusioner (PIM, 1974)

Swedish vocals, English vocals
International relevance: **

One of the rarest progg albums ever, privately released by Prefix main man Pierre Blom on his own record label PIM. According to Tobias Petterson in ”The Encyclopedia of Swedish Progressive Music”, it's not a group effort as much as a Blom solo album.

Whether it would have been better if Pierre Blom had actually used other musicians than his equally untalented wife and one Åke Eriksson on vocals is hard to say but I hope so. Because playing most of the instruments himself in his basement was clearly not a good idea. ”Min kära” is a bad track but on top of the dung pile. In ”Stupid Record Company”, reeking with self-pity, Blom complains that no label wants to release his music – hmm, I wonder why that is... The title to the opening track is ”Alla toner är ledsna”, meaning ”all notes are sad”, and well, I would be sad too if I was a bum note on this album...

Prefix is in the same category as Malaria, John-Erik Axelsson and Radiomöbel, i.e. unlistenable crap with few or no recognizable traces of talent. If you find a copy of this album, be sure to put on protective suit and gloves before handling the album. You really don't want to touch it. It might be hazardous.

Band name and album title are sometimes mixed up when listed.

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