English vocals, other languages, instrumental
International relevance: **
Happy Boys Band has strong progg connections as three of their members were formerly in Kebnekajse: Hassan Bah, Thomas Netzler and Rolf Scherrer. Netzler was also part of the Tillsammans collective and Scherrer used to be in Steampacket with Mikael Ramel in the 60s. Scherrer and Netzler wrote one of the 12” EP's three tracks with the other two being Bah compositions. The tracks all have a different feel to them. The instrumental ”Song To Maria (Smulan)” is unexpectedly spacey in a semi-fusion way, while ”Saturday Night” shows a clear inspiration from African high life music. ”Na Jo Na” is closer to afrofunk. Out of Kebnekajse's ouvre, ”Bush” is obviously closest to ”Ljus från Afrika”. What you think of it depends on your tolerance for African music, but even if it's not your thing, just listening to these guys play is satisfying. They're a really tight lot, and the solo contributions are top notch. Scherrer (or possibly Mats Dahlberg) delivers quite a few tasty guitar runs, especially on ”Song To Maria”.
If you're into them, you might also want to check out Happy Boys Band's Tonkraft gig from early 1981, a rather short but fiery set that at times is pretty close to Archimedes Badkar's most Afro flavoured efforts.
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