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RAGNARÖKRagnarökProg Folk4.04 | 141 ratings |
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DrömmarenAdrian
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Perhaps this is not more folk than Kaipa, Änglagård or Atlas but it is sweat symphonic music
with wonderful acoustic guitars. Ragnarök's debut album from 1976(not 77) feasts the listener
a very melodic and nice meal with a lot of qualitites. A fantastic thing about this band is that it
comes from Kalmar, a pretty city I've lived in for two years when I was a teenager, and also my
mothers birth city(and a place I'm going to tomorrow). The name of the band, "Ragnarök" is
from the nordic religion "Asatron" where "Ragnarök" is a future happening when a last fight
between giants and men is going to take place and the world will fall apart, to rise up again as
a new world with new gods and men.Not a single minute is abd or boring on this record but sometimes are better than others. The first track "Farvel København" (Farewell Copenhagen/Farväl Köpenhamn) (10/10) manages to show us magnificent acoustic guitar play. I can honestly say that Ragnarök's guitars are better than many good prog band's guitars. "Nybakat bröd" (newly baked bread) (10/10) is the other faultless track here, a funny, honest and wonderful melody played on flute and guitar with a jazzy touch in the middle. "Promenader" (Strolls) (9/10) has a jazzy feeling of the seventies that is wonderful in guitar and piano. "Stiltje - uppbrott" (Lull - Decampment) (9/10) is another magnificent track which first grows calmly to explode in the end, allways with skillfully played instruments. Amongst the other tracks "Dagarnas skum" (8/10) a longer, experimenting piece, "Polska från Kalmar" (8/10) a short folk song played on flute and "Fabriksfunky" (8/10), a rich musical world with a unique melody, are worth naming. When listening to progressive rock I'm often in heaven, and Ragnarök's music is candy for my ears. But I wouln't consider it a masterpiece. If they had done longer, more advanced compositions, perhaps with vocals, it could have come closer, or just fail. Four stars is my not so surprising statement.
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