SAFT-Horn Lp 1971 ORIGINAL Norway Prog Psych LP RARE
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SAFT - Horn Lp
IINFO
Label: Polydor Records
Label / Matrix #: 2923 005
Country of Origin: Norway
Year made: 1971
Personnel: Ove Thue - vocals, acoustic guitar; Trygve Thue - guitars; Tom H. Halvorsen - organ, piano; Rolf Skogstrand - bass; Magne Lunde - drums
A group from Bergen formed in 1970. Thue, Thue and Halvorsen earned their living as musicians during the local staging of the "Hair" musical. Their first album was a really mixed bag with moments of both glory (the beautiful, pastoral "Couple Of Freaks", the energic progressive rock of "Don't Look Back" and the warbling, quasi-psychedelic "Fly") and failure (the hopeless "Opus 1", the painstakingly naive "All The Time" and the tedious "So Long"). Main writer Ove Thue had a fascination for The Beach Boys and The Beatles, resulting in some favorable vocal arrangements. The problem for Saft was the lack of a specific sound and the mixture of English and Norwegian lyrics.
Their second single "People In Motion", a really banal and annoying song, won a European radio hit contest and soon sold in large quantities.
"Horn" managed to maintain a more homogenous sound throughout, mixing song-based jazzy progressive rock with American folklore.
The group slowly drifted apart with Trygve Thue joining Rune Walle in the short-lived group Hole In The Wall. Walle followed Thue back to a revamped Saft. Their new album Stev, Sull, Rock & Rull (1973) merged simple rock'n'roll, folk and country to much critical and popular acclaim, but will be of restricted interest to foreign collectors several decades later.
Sleeve/ Record graded VG+ / VG+ Sleeve shows very little wear . The record shows usual little surface marks that doesn't affect the play. Obviously well taken care of...I just played it and it sounds FANTASTIC!!!
Nice and Clean copy overall. This record is really hard to come by nowadays in any condition . It will be a really nice addition to your collection so take a chance to catch this unvaluable piece of music history!!!I'll be selling some rare and very hard to find records from my personal collection this week so have a look to my other items for sale. SHIPPING TO BELGIUM is 9.00USD. TO EUROPE is 15.00USD and WORLDWIDE is 22,00USD. I'll be happy to combine shipping.PAYMENT EXPECTED IN 3 DAYS AFTER AUCTIONS END. Paypal or Bank transfert accepted. THANX FOR LOOKING AND GOOD LUCK!!!!!
