VÅTA VINGAR (WET WINGS)

This album's first track (Sing Louder Little River) was a hit for J:son Lindh and hence it became his most popular album. Sing Louder Little River is really a fantastic song with a long, winding and very beautiful melody loop, starting in serenity and building up to a pompous climax. In my opinion, melody is Björn J:son Lindh's trademark and on this album there are many beautiful melodies that are easily remembered.

It is pure instrumental music and at this time many put Lindh in the New Age genre. This is understandable as the mood of Lindh's music is usually calm and harmonic but it is richer and more well arranged than most of the music of the New Age genre.

Lindh reached his artistic peak with this album in my opinion. He had slowly evolved his music from the loosely structured, jam-based jazz rock of his early career ten years ago to this elaborate and intellectual yet accessible music. The melodies make it accessible, but there are intriguing harmonies, odd rhythms and interesting instrumentation that stimulate the intellect to active listening.

Björn J:son Lindh is a skilled flautist who uses blowing sounds to give his flute a voice of its own, and the album features a number of the Swedish top session musicians of the time.

This is not traditional Progressive Rock in the style of Genesis, EL&P, King Crimson or Jethro Tull. You may find similarities with Focus, Mike Oldfield and Camel, but Björn J:son Lindh gives his music his own personal touch. If I were to hear an unknown song by Lindh, I would immediately recognize his style, in the same way that one recognizes Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield or Gentle Giant, and that is one of the reasons why I think Lindh belongs on the Prog Archives website.

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