Swedish vocals, instrumental
International relevance: *
Ljudspår was the musical outlet of film studio Europa Film and managed to release several highly credible albums 1972-1976 including the first Mikael Ramel, second Fläsket Brinner and the final album from Vildkaktus. Röda Lacket's only LP isn't quite one of them. Not fusion, not really jazz rock but more of a horn rock album with vocalist Göran Folkestad sounding like a Christian commercial singer. Well, both commercial and Christian is right insofar he appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest twice in the 80s and bassist Thomas Lindbjer was in both Vatten and Salt. The musicianship is OK enough but the songwriting is blunt and undistinguished. It doesn't matter if they dabble in jazz (”Gasen pyser”), instrumental Latin soul (”Jättarnas dans”) or pop ballads (”Våra statsmän”), nothing here has any personality. ”Röda Lacket” is a perfectly pointless album by a perfectly pointless band.
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