Bo Hansson-Lord Of The Rings

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Bo Hansson is a Swedish keyboard player. This was released in late 1970 in Sweden and in the U.S. in 1972. It was around this time that I had read Tolkien’s books so when I saw this record I had to buy it. He plays all the instruments on the album with some help from friends on sax,flute,and drums. An all instrumental record with short songs,nothing over 5 minutes. The music is mostly quiet or pastoral sounding the exceptions being “The Black Riders/Flight To The Ford” with some fuzz toned guitar and a galloping rhythm,and “The Horns Of Rohan/The Battle Of Pelennor Fields with the same rhythm and sounding like a calvary charge. The last song “The Grey Havens” has some nice organ playing with a haunting background. The record has had several re-issues on vinyl and CD and is his best known work. He put out a few more records in the 70’s one of which I had on CD then dissapeared from the music business.

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