The LP ends on the really pretty 'Wintergreen' whereįinally the Acoustic Guitar comes out in Latin flicks and flourishes - aĭouble-bass accompanying - there but staying just enough out of the way of Instrumental Steely Dan - the same applying to 'Atlanta Inn 2419' There are parts of 'The Blue Gate' that feel 'so' Side 1 ends on some cool slap bass that's quickly joined byĭoubled-up guitars - al of them slow-funkin' their way in through 'Theīlue Gate'. Some truly gorgeous Santana type guitar - very Soulful and soaring in all the Suite' - part (a) is super funky while part (b) mellows right down into That is followed by nine and half minutes of instrumental virtuosity. ('Show Me The Way') and Steely Dan ('Haitian Divorce'). Popular by Joe Walsh ('Rocky Mountain Way'), Peter Frampton Output - the George Martin produced 'Blow By Blow' and Immediately feels like old Janne has been pigging out on Jeff Beck's Epic Records Struttin'' on the 'K' spelt 'Katharsis' - a track that Keyboard wiz John 'Rabbit' Bundrick adds his chops to the opening 'Bromma Have listeners reaching for that Steely Dan adjective – both musically and 'Atlanta Inn 2419' from the 'Katharsis' album is likely to Superbly produced LPs in the first place anyway - but these new transfers haveīrought out that amazing musicianship like never before. Spectacular new Remasters by ANDREW THOMPSON at Sound Mastering. Second LP are discussed (Bruce Botnik of Doors fame producing) - John 'Rabbit'īundrick of Argent and Traffic - and many more. Talented contributing musicians like the Porcaro Brothers from Toto on the 'Waterloo', 'Dancing Queen' and 'Mamma Mia'). Sessioned on over fifty ABBA tracks including early monster hits like Making of each LP and the heady times they were recording in (he famously There are original musicianĬredits, black and white cover artwork and new interviews with Schaffer on the Mojo's noted Jazz columnist CHARLES WARING. While the jam-packed 24-page booklet features new and in-depth liner notes from Sets - the outer card slipcase lends the whole reissue a feeling of class. Rather fabulous BGO twofer CD reissue comes funkin' in. Suddenly everyone wasĭiscovering their inner Narada-this and Mahavishnu-that. Until the Jazz Funk and Fusion explosion of the late Seventies took the musicīuying public by storm on both sides of the pond. Zippy-licks guitarist of note – Schaffer kind of disappeared off our radars After those initial flurries established him as a Vertigo 6360 118 (called 'Janne Schaffer's Andra' in his native Imaginatively entitled 'Janne Schaffer's Second' in April 1975 on The next year Vertigo followed that (as John Peel would say) with the Reissued his debut as 'The Chinese' in May 1974 on Vertigo 6360 107. Prog-mad Blighty by the eclectic Vertigo Records label - which then promptly

Schaffer' first appeared in his native Stockholm on Four Leaf Records inġ973 and promptly Prog Rocked its way to the No.

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