Lord of the Rings (Album)
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| Studio album by Bo Hansson | ||||
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Publication |
1970/1972 |
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| Label (s) | Silence Records / Charisma Records | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
38:13 |
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Anders Lind and Bo Hansson |
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Studio (s) |
Bo Hansson's summer home |
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Lord of the Rings (also Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings ) is Bo Hansson's first solo album and a concept album for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . It was released in 1970 with the Swedish title Sagan om wrestling on Silence Records and in 1972 with the English title on Charisma Records .
Creation and publication
After Bo Hansson ended his collaboration with Jan Karlsson, he was inspired by Anders Lind, who had already worked with Hansson & Karlsson, to write a concept album about Tolkien's fantasy novel. It was recorded in a summer house near Stockholm rented by Lind and Hansson and in the Stockholm studio Decibel and published in the autumn of 1970 as Sagan om ringen in Sweden; the international version with an English title appeared two years later. To this day, new editions have followed again and again, some with different artwork or with excerpts from the two follow-up albums Magician's Hat and Attic Thoughts as bonus titles.
Track list
page 1
- Leaving Shire - 3:28
- The Old Forest & Tom Bombadil - 3:43
- Fog on the Barrow-Downs - 2:29
- The Black Riders & Flight to the Ford - 4:07
- At the House of Elrond & The Ring Goes South - 4:40
Page 2
- A Journey in the Dark - 1:10
- Lothlórien - 4:01
- Shadowfax - 0:51
- The Horns of Rohan & The Battle of the Pelennor Fields - 3:57
- Dreams in the House of Healing - 1:56
- Homeward Bound & The Scouring of the Shire - 2:54
- The Gray Havens - 4:57
style
Lord of the Rings is a purely instrumental and almost minimalist arranged album. With its concept, instrumentation and dreamy to melancholic mood, it is usually assigned to progressive rock , but also has echoes of the Canterbury sound and psychedelic rock .
reception
Sagan om ringen received airplay in Sweden and became a successful album for Hansson. The English titled version was able to build on the success and is considered by many to be Hansson's most successful work. The music magazine eclipsed took Lord of the Rings in its list of the 150 most important prog albums. However, the press still reacts negatively to the album in parts. While the atmosphere of the music is praised on the baby blue pages , its simplicity and monotony are also criticized.
Trivia
From the mid-1970s, The Black Riders was the signature tune of “Radiothek am Thursday” on WDR 2 with progressive rock music and electronic music with the moderators Winfried Trenkler and Tom Schröder.
Web links
- Lord of the Rings at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Lord of the Rings on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biography ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , silence.se/bohansson , accessed June 21, 2013.
- ↑ a b Bruce Eder: Lord of the Rings at Allmusic (English), accessed on June 21, 2013.
- ↑ a b Bo Hansson: Lord Of The Rings . Baby Blue Pages , Baby Blue Prog Reviews; Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 29.
