APRIL RAIN page updated.

By any chance, do you have new information on their other release? https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=43054

^ I said that would be the last one for now, but here's one more, just for tonight. 

Credits are a nightmare on this album: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29584.

https://www.discogs.com/release/2725711-Bj%C3%B6rn-JSon-Lindh-Fr%C3%A5n-Storstad-Till-Grodspad.

See the two other versions on discogs as well.

I think this is more or less correct, but check it!!! 

- Björn J:Son Lindh / piano, organ (1-8), synthesizer, flute (1)

With:

- Kenny Håkansson / electric guitar (1-8)

- Rune Gustafsson / electric guitar (2-8)

- Bengt Olsson / horn (2-8)

- Bengt Sundberg / horn (2-8)

- Lars-Erik Rönn / oboe (2-8)

- Nisse Sandström / tenor saxophone (2-8)

- Jörgen Johansson / trombone (2-8)

- Torgny Nilsson / trombone (2-8)

- Beinth Gustavsson / trumpet (2-8)

- Bertil Lövgren / trumpet (2-8)

- Anders Nordh / vocals (2-8)

- Göran Lagerberg/ vocals (2-8)

- Hawkey Franzén / vocals (2-8)

- Karin Stigmark / vocals (2-8)

- Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester / strings (1-8)

Total time is missing too:

^ Those timings are from discogs. The ones we currently have are from RYM, but the time for track 5 'Den dansande Wollmar' at 5:04 is much shorter than that the 6:41 on the discogs page for the album, YouTube, and the image of the CD itself (or the back cover of the LP) at discogs.

Edit: I forgot to add last night the details of where the tracks were recorded, which will help explain the variations in the musicians who performed on them:

Vinyl LP SR Records - RELP 1135 (1971, Sweden)

The CD version of the album was bundled together with the book "J:son : ett lätt turbulent porträtt" (J:son : a slightly turbulent portrait), which was released in July 2016, with the CD contained (without any front or back cover) in a plastic pocket within the book.

CD and Book Skabetti Books & Agency - SKACD 001 (2016, Sweden)

Next one: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=29585.

https://www.discogs.com/release/8168929-Bj%C3%B6rn-JSon-Lindh-Cous-Cous.

Again, I would strongly advise checking that I've not messed this up before adding it to our page:

- Björn J:Son Lindh / flute (1,2,3,4,6,7,8), piano (1), cowbell (1), flute [alto] (5), electric piano (5,6,7)

With:

- Jan Schaffer / acoustic guitar, electric guitar (1,2,4,6,7,8)

- Kenny Håkansson / electric guitar (5)

- Mike Watson / Fender bass (1,5,6,7,8)

- Nagi el Habashy / cello (4)

- Kofi Aivor / congas (1,6,7)

- Malando Gassanna / congas (2,3)

- Palle Danielsson / double bass (2,3)

- Ola Brunkert / drums (1,2,5,6,7,8)

- Bengt Berger / drums (3)

- Bobo Stenson / electric piano (3)

- Abd El Rahman El Khatib / lute (4,8)

- Bahi Barakat / tabla (4)

- Jan Bandel / tabla (8)

There is currently no total time on the page. Our existing timings have been taken from RYM, but I've used the ones from spotify here to calculate the total time, since they are from an actual stream of the album.

The album was recorded in Metronome Studio, Stockholm, July-October 1972.

These next two albums in the list of those without a line up need to be deleted, along with the other one (Neapolis) on the band's page - once it's been added again where it really belongs - since the band Blackbirch already exists in the database as Harvest, with them changing their name to Blackbirch back in April 2015.

The Blackbirch page says in the biography (which is otherwise almost empty apart from saying that the band was formed in 2005 and is a progressive metal band from Modena, Italy): NOTE: This band is erroneously duplicated under the moniker HARVEST. That statement is really incorrect. The original entry is perfectly good - all that needs doing is the name Harvest changing to Blackbirch (Ex-Harvest), or something along those lines, and the Neapolis album which they released as Blackbirch being added there instead of under the later duplicated entry for Blackbirch. The other album currently on the Harvest page 'Sparks', released in 2014 when they were still known as Harvest, is currently in the Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo section, but it is really a full-length studio album, being over 38 minutes long, so I'd be tempted to move it to the official 'top albums' section.

Both albums have the line ups included where they appear in the Harvest discography, and none of the albums in either of the band's entries has any reviews, so once the Neapolis album has been added to the original Harvest (or Blackbirch (Ex-Harvest)) page, all three can be deleted from the duplicate Blackbirch page, leaving an almost empty page there. The statement saying that the band is erroneously duplicated under the moniker HARVEST really needs to be altered to read "Note: This band has been erroneously duplicated here, but already exists in the database as Harvest (or Blackbirch (Ex-Harvest) if the name is changed to that), with them changing their name to Blackbirch in April 2015".

The Harvest biography currently also has a similar statement at the bottom "NOTE: This band is erroneously duplicated under the moniker BLACKBIRCH", which can be left there, since only M@X can delete this later entry, but we need to continue by adding: "but Harvest simply changed their name to Blackbirch in April 2015, with the addition of Emanuele Tognoli on bass, thus allowing Francesco Pini to transfer over to guitar and keyboards".

Someone then needs to message M@X to explain what has happened, and hopefully he will one day respond and remove the duplicated entry. 

Hope I managed to explain all that OK...but you'll soon get the picture when you look at the various pages involved if I didn't! 

E&O Team wrote:  Thanks, done (see Julien's post below). (Only to mark already handled request, because the queue grows).

Sorry! No more will be posted until the current queue is all completed. 

Thanks David. Updated, with some very minor changes to the line-up, and upgraded releases information. 

Oh wow, good work.  But I too tired at the moment. I will investigate this case later, in the next days. Or maybe Eugene will step in? Thanks anyway! 

The current Harvest bio is OK to use on the Blackbirch page as it is - all that really needs to be added is "HARVEST changed their name to BLACKBIRCH in April 2015, with the addition of Emanuele TOGNOLI on bass, thereby releasing Francesco PINI from the role to enable him to contribute guitar and keyboards to the band instead".

I suggested a band called Initial Mass for inclusion in Heavy prog last week: https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=130425. I'm pretty sure they will be accepted, and they have four albums, so would be ideal candidates to take up the spare page left behind by Harvest. BrufordFreak is the only collaborator to comment in the thread so far, but he said: "Big YES to Initial Mass for PA admission through the Heavy Prog portal", so I doubt that the others are likely to vote 'no'.

A word in the team leader's ear to ask him if he might consider reusing the redundant Harvest artist ID for the eventual addition of Initial Mass could bring about an early solution to this issue!