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Janne Goldman is one of the unsung figures of the progg era, simply because he never was an out-and-out progg artist. But there was often something freewheeling about his music, even at its most traditional sounding, that has me including him here (previously as one half of Gin & Grappo).
This album was his first under his own name. Along with his backing band Rock Und Roll Gruppe he indeed delivers a rocking album with a certain seedy vibe that at times reminds me of Ensamma Hjärtan at their sleaziest. It's definitely not to everyone's tastes being very much in the straight-ahead rock mould, and it's not an album I long to hear over and over again, but I have to admit that the music's scruffy demeanor is oddly appealing and entertaining once I put it on. Even more surprising then that Clarence Öwferman is credited as 'conductor' on the front cover – Öwferman later became a star producer and hit it really big with his appallingly slick and bombastic production work for Roxette!
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