TRUBROT - Orig. 1969 LP - Psych/Prog - Pokora 4 Stars
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Description
Trúbrot – Trúbrot (1969)
This is an original copy of Trúbrot's self titled 1st LP, issued in 1969 on Parlophone Odeon.
Catalogue number: SCPMA 27.
Red label.
Listed in Pokora with 4 stars!!! (Pokora 1001, page 42)
The record contains both self-penned material as well as cover versions of Lennon & McCartney, José Feliciano and Holland-Dozier-Holland, sung in Icelandic. Great progressive tracks with sixties pop touches, beautiful female vocals.
Musically this is prog/psych.
Last June this album was voted number 48 in a search for the 100 best Icelandic albums of all time. (See the top 50 list at: http://www.tonlist.is/Music/ChartList.aspx?ID=289#0)
The record was pressed in the UK but distributed in Iceland only, by a local label company named Fálkinn.
Gatefold cover with lyrics printed on the inside.
One of the rarest Icelandic records!
Condition of record: VG-/VG (Lot of hairline/surface marks, obviously been listened to a lot - Played through without skipping but with occasional tick - The music was very enjoyable - Would rate it VG- visually but VG+ after listening to it)
Condition of cover: VG/VG+ (Looks very nice overall but has a 3-4 cm long rip on the spine)
About Trúbrot:
History
The band was formed in 1969 as an Icelandic supergroup composed of members of the bands Hljómar and Flowers. Their eponymous first album was released that same year, a collection of orchestral and organ-backed pop songs which included a cover of The Beatles's "Things We Said Today" and a five-minute mini-opera "Elskaðu Náungan", which was based on Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser.
While the first album is entirely in Icelandic, later albums featured more English singing. 1971's Lifun came in a hexagonal cover.
Several members of this band would become part of the group Náttúra, who released one album in 1972. Trúbrot itself broke up in 1973.
Members
· Shady Owens - vocals
· Gunnar Þórðarson - guitar, flute, vocals
· Karl Sighvatsson - organ, piano
· Rúnar Júlíusson - vocals, bass
· Gunnar Jökull Hákonarson - drums, vocals
· Magnús Kjartansson - piano, organ, vocals
· Ólafur Garðarsson - drums
Discography
· Trúbrot (Fálkinn/EMI, 1969; Reissued on CD, Steinar, 1992)
· Undir Áhrifum (Fálkinn/Parlophone, 1970; Reissued on CD, Steinar, 1992)
· Lifun (Tónaútgáfan, 1971; Reissued on CD, Geimsteinn, 1991)
· Mandala (Private Press, 1972; Reissued on CD, Geimsteinn, 1996)
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