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Attic Thoughts

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Released
  
April 1975

Length
  
37:07

Release date
  
April 1975

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Recorded
  
1974–1975

Artist
  
Bo Hansson

Label
  
Charisma Records

Producers
  
Anders Lind, Bo Hansson

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Studio
  
Bo Hansson's home and Studio Decibel, Stockholm

Attic Thoughts (1975)
  
Music Inspired by Watership Down (1977)

Similar
  
Bo Hansson albums, Progressive rock albums

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Attic Thoughts is an instrumental progressive rock album by Swedish musician Bo Hansson. The album was recorded during 1974 and 1975 at Studio Decibel in Stockholm, and at Hansson's home, which had virtually become a studio by this point in his career. The album featured contributions from many of the same session musicians and friends that had played on Hansson's previous album, Magician's Hat. In Hansson's native Sweden, Attic Thoughts was released with the Swedish title of Mellanväsen. It was released with its English title in April 1975 by Charisma Records, but was less commercially successful than Hansson's preceding solo albums and failed to reach the charts in the UK or the United States. In addition to featuring Hansson's usual blend of other-worldly progressive rock and fairy tale-like ambiance, Attic Thoughts includes a suite named "Rabbit Music", which was inspired by Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, a subject that Hansson would explore further on his 1977 album Music Inspired by Watership Down.

Contents

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Bo Hansson except where indicated.

Side 1

  1. "Attic Thoughts: a) March b) Repose c) Wandering" – 5:33
  2. "Time and Space" – 1:39
  3. "Waiting..." (Bo Hansson, Kenny Håkansson) – 7:34
  4. "Waltz for Interbeings" – 3:26

Side 2

  1. "Time for Great Achievements" – 3:11
  2. "The Hybrills" – 1:24
  3. "Rabbit Music: a) General Woundwort b) Fiver" – 6:30
  4. "Day and Night" – 4:33
  5. "A Happy Prank" – 3:17

2004 CD reissue bonus track

  1. "The Crystal Suite: a) Crystals b) Memories of Darkness c) Light Again" – 6:21

Personnel

  • Bo Hansson – organs, guitars, bass guitar, synthesizer, mellotron, special effects
  • Rune Carlsson – drums
  • Kenny Håkansson – electric guitar
  • Jöran Lagerberg – bass guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Gunnar Bergsten – saxophone
  • Rolf Scherrer – acoustic guitar
  • Tomas Netzler – bass guitar
  • Mats Glenngård – violin
  • Anders Oredsson – mixing on "Waiting..."
  • Jan Ternald – cover painting
  • Barry Lester and Company – artwork

    • Releases

  • CD Attic Thoughts One Way Records 1996
  • CD Attic Thoughts EMI Music Distribution 2004
  • CD Attic Thoughts Virgin 2004
  • CD Attic Thoughts [Bonus Track] EMI Music Distribution 2005

    • Songs

    1Attic Thoughts5:33
    2Time and Space1:39
    3Waiting 7:35

    References

    Attic Thoughts Wikipedia
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