Bo Hansson

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Bo Hansson (born April 10, 1943 in Gothenburg , † April 23, 2010 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish keyboardist and composer .

life and work

Bo Hansson live 2007

Bo (Bosse) Hansson was born in 1943. In his youth he came to Stockholm and turned to rock music via the electric guitar . He toured with Swedish beat bands. His subsequent path led him to Gyllene Circeln, a jazz club in Stockholm in 1966. The American jazz organist "Brother Jack McDuff " played there. Hansson decided to play the organ from now on. He developed his own style and playing technique autodidactically. The jazz drummer Jan Edvard Carlsson found himself as a musician . As a duo 'Hansson & Karlsson' they gained national attention in their home country Sweden from the mid-1960s. The sound of this music was new, eager to experiment and sounded, by Swedish standards, provocative and revolutionary. Hansson & Karlsson were able to inspire the younger generations in particular.

Hansson & Karlsson toured Sweden's clubs and played jam sessions and the like. a. with Jimi Hendrix . Hendrix took their composition "Tax Free" into his repertoire. The first sound document from Hansson & Karlsson is the single ' Lidingö Airport ' from spring 1967.

The duo produced the albums Rex , Monument and Man At The Moon between 1967 and 1969 .

Man At The Moon from 1969 is a kind of concept album between jazz and underground with psychedelic elements, which is probably the best-known and most successful album of the duo, as it addressed the first moon landing in 1969. Parts of the radio communication with Neil Armstrong were used on the album. Due to different artistic interests, Hansson and Carlsson ended their collaboration. In 1969 Bo Hansson, inspired by Tolkien's book The Lord of the Rings , had the idea of ​​composing music for it. He turned to the sound engineer Anders Lind, who had founded the record label Silence Records . The recordings were made in a holiday home on an island near Stockholm on a portable 8-track tape machine.

With Lord of the Rings ( Sagan Om Ringen ) he made his first own and most famous album in 1970. After a long run-up, it was finally released in England and Europe in 1972, a year before Mike Oldfield 's ' Tubular Bells ', with continued success. In addition to Sweden, Europe, the USA and New Zealand, there were editions of the album in South Africa, Australia and Brazil. 59 versions of the album were counted internationally. Sagan Om Ringen is an instrumental album that creates an atmosphere of the mysterious, the fantastic in mostly elegiac, dream-shrouded images.

In 1973 Magician's Hat ( Ur Trollkarlens Hatt ) was released, a complex fusion album with borrowings from jazz and folk and Scandinavian-looking and mystical elements.

In 1975, Attic Thoughts ( Mellanväsen ) was released, an album that is a bit rockier and in parts already thematizes the fantasy novel Watership Down .

In 1977 a concept album was released with Watership Down ( El Ahrairah) , which on the whole is based on the novel of the same name ( Eng . Down by the river ).

All four albums have a varied style in common. The multi-instrumentalist Bo Hansson (organ, synthesizer, guitar, bass, special effects) and others play on his albums. a. back to the following musicians: Rune Carlsson (drums), Kenny Hakansson (electric guitar), Jöran Lagerberg (bass), Gunnar Bergsten (saxophone) and Rolf Scherrer (acoustic guitar).

At the end of the 1970s, Bo Hansson was diagnosed with a serious, incurable disease about which he did not provide any further details. This led to a more or less extensive retreat into private life. In 1985 Hansson released the album Mitt I Livet . More inconspicuous pop music than instrumental work and produced in a small edition limited to Sweden, this work went largely unnoticed. In recent years Bo Hansson has worked with the organist Eric Malmberg under the name Dubbelorganisterna .

Live appearances with Bo Hansson, who was considered shy, were extremely rare during the time of his solo albums and later, with one or two exceptions, there were no more appearances.

Discography

Hansson & Karlsson

  • 1967: Lidingö Airport (single)
  • 1967: Monument (LP)
  • 1968: Rex (live album)
  • 1969: Man At The Moon (LP)
  • 1970: gold
  • 1998: Hansson & Karlsson (sampler)
  • 2010: For People in Love 67-68 (early studio and live recordings)

solo

  • 1970: Sagan Om Wrestling (Swedish title)
  • 1972: Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (international title)
  • 1972: Ur Trollkarlens Hatt (Swedish title)
  • 1973: Magician's Hat (international title)
  • 1975: Mellanväsen (Swedish title)
  • 1975: Attic Thoughts (international title)
  • 1977: El Ahrairah (Swedish title)
  • 1977: Music Inspired By Watership Down (international title)
  • 1981: American Engineered (Music Inspired By Watership Down, American mix which, according to Bo Hansson's office, is not allowed to appear on CD) (US LP)
  • 1985: Mitt I Livet (probably only in Sweden)

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personal data
SURNAME Hansson, Bo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish keyboardist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2010
Place of death Stockholm