Dreamy, jazzy, with a warm, romantic feeling, this is one of the best instrumental albums by Bo Hansson

In the early 1970s stormed "Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings", the solo album debut of Swedish jazz musician bosses "Bo" Hansson, the charts in the UK and had Hansson thanks to a coincidence. Shortly before, he played and his drummer Janne "Carl" Karlsson in Stockholm several jam with Jimi Hendrix and then took the Hansson / Karlsson composition "Tax Free" in its Repertoi on.

That got the attention of a Hansson Genesis manager Tony Stratton-Smith and took him to the "Famous Charisma" label under contract. Shortly thereafter, the "Lord of the Rings" -Auskopplung "Flight to the Ford" a Diskothekenhit in UK. Of this inspired tried multiinstrumentalist Hansson (he played on his albums among others piano, organ, synthesizer, guitar, bass and percussion) continuously optimize its instrumental music and inspired so even the young Mike Oldfield on his album "Tubular Bells". Although Hansson and Karlsson were musically sophisticated and better with each subsequent album sales declined over the years.

"Music inspired by Watership Down" (on Richard Adams eponymous fantasy novel based) saw Bo Hansson therefore as a last attempt at establishing itself successfully in the music business. The album is now considered one of his best, dreamy, jazzy, with a warm, romantic feeling and great arrangements, but was nevertheless not really commercially successful. Of this frustration is Bosse Hansson pulled late 1970s returned from the record scene and published until his death in April 2010, only one album, which remained virtually unknown but.

"Watership Down" with the outstanding 17-minute composition "Born in the Gentle South" but shows all music fans insistently the uniqueness of the arrangements and compositional skills of the jazz-rock musician Bo Hansson, echoing sustained to his work and his influence on other musicians like (see above) about Mike Oldfield.

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Rainer Sauer, Jena ("sounds of synthesizers")