Lars Olof ”Lollo” Asplund is a rather overlooked figure now although he was a versatile, well-known character back in the day. He debuted to a wider audience already on a TV show in the early 70s, worked with a choir on one of his albums, wrote music for a movie in the 90's, performed regularly to and with children and released an album of children's music in the 80's. He wrote about music for a local newspaper and hosted several literary nights in his native town Linköping. He even scored something of a radio hit with ”Råckenråll till frukost” from his debut album ”Eldsjäl” recorded in 1980 and released the following year.
Despite being issued by MNW, ”Eldsjäl”
sounds more like a Metronome album, like something by
Ola Magnell. Asplund's slightly warbly voice and the occassional
Latin American influence also make me think of Jan Hammarlund in
places. The album has a well-rounded production courtesy of Thomas Almqvist, and a cast of musicians well acquainted to studio
work including Stefan Brolund (Monica Törnell, Bernt Staf, Björn J:son Lindh, millions more), Malte Sjöstrand (Solen Skiner, Robert Broberg, Rolf Wikström and others) Ale Möller, Turid and of course
Thomas Almqvist himself. The songs are well-written and there's
nothing really wrong with it, not hard to listen to but
essentially unengaging..
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